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SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 + +================================== +How to get the bt8xx cards working +================================== + +Authors: + Richard Walker, + Jamie Honan, + Michael Hunold, + Manu Abraham, + Uwe Bugla, + Michael Krufky + +General information +------------------- + +This class of cards has a bt878a as the PCI interface, and require the bttv driver +for accessing the i2c bus and the gpio pins of the bt8xx chipset. + +Please see :doc:`bttv-cardlist` for a complete list of Cards based on the +Conexant Bt8xx PCI bridge supported by the Linux Kernel. + +In order to be able to compile the kernel, some config options should be +enabled:: + + ./scripts/config -e PCI + ./scripts/config -e INPUT + ./scripts/config -m I2C + ./scripts/config -m MEDIA_SUPPORT + ./scripts/config -e MEDIA_PCI_SUPPORT + ./scripts/config -e MEDIA_ANALOG_TV_SUPPORT + ./scripts/config -e MEDIA_DIGITAL_TV_SUPPORT + ./scripts/config -e MEDIA_RADIO_SUPPORT + ./scripts/config -e RC_CORE + ./scripts/config -m VIDEO_BT848 + ./scripts/config -m DVB_BT8XX + +If you want to automatically support all possible variants of the Bt8xx +cards, you should also do:: + + ./scripts/config -e MEDIA_SUBDRV_AUTOSELECT + +.. note:: + + Please use the following options with care as deselection of drivers which + are in fact necessary may result in DVB devices that cannot be tuned due + to lack of driver support. + +If your goal is to just support an specific board, you may, instead, +disable MEDIA_SUBDRV_AUTOSELECT and manually select the frontend drivers +required by your board. With that, you can save some RAM. + +You can do that by calling make xconfig/qconfig/menuconfig and look at +the options on those menu options (only enabled if +``Autoselect ancillary drivers`` is disabled: + +#) ``Device drivers`` => ``Multimedia support`` => ``Customize TV tuners`` +#) ``Device drivers`` => ``Multimedia support`` => ``Customize DVB frontends`` + +Then, on each of the above menu, please select your card-specific +frontend and tuner modules. + + +Loading Modules +--------------- + +Regular case: If the bttv driver detects a bt8xx-based DVB card, all +frontend and backend modules will be loaded automatically. + +Exceptions are: + +- Old TV cards without EEPROMs, sharing a common PCI subsystem ID; +- Old TwinHan DST cards or clones with or without CA slot and not + containing an Eeprom. + +In the following cases overriding the PCI type detection for bttv and +for dvb-bt8xx drivers by passing modprobe parameters may be necessary. + +Running TwinHan and Clones +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + +As shown at :doc:`bttv-cardlist`, TwinHan and +clones use ``card=113`` modprobe parameter. So, in order to properly +detect it for devices without EEPROM, you should use:: + + $ modprobe bttv card=113 + $ modprobe dst + +Useful parameters for verbosity level and debugging the dst module:: + + verbose=0: messages are disabled + 1: only error messages are displayed + 2: notifications are displayed + 3: other useful messages are displayed + 4: debug setting + dst_addons=0: card is a free to air (FTA) card only + 0x20: card has a conditional access slot for scrambled channels + dst_algo=0: (default) Software tuning algorithm + 1: Hardware tuning algorithm + + +The autodetected values are determined by the cards' "response string". + +In your logs see f. ex.: dst_get_device_id: Recognize [DSTMCI]. + +For bug reports please send in a complete log with verbose=4 activated. +Please also see :doc:`ci`. + +Running multiple cards +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + +See :doc:`bttv-cardlist` for a complete list of +Card ID. Some examples: + + =========================== === + Brand name ID + =========================== === + Pinnacle PCTV Sat 94 + Nebula Electronics Digi TV 104 + pcHDTV HD-2000 TV 112 + Twinhan DST and clones 113 + Avermedia AverTV DVB-T 77: 123 + Avermedia AverTV DVB-T 761 124 + DViCO FusionHDTV DVB-T Lite 128 + DViCO FusionHDTV 5 Lite 135 + =========================== === + +.. note:: + + When you have multiple cards, the order of the card ID should + match the order where they're detected by the system. Please notice + that removing/inserting other PCI cards may change the detection + order. + +Example:: + + $ modprobe bttv card=113 card=135 + +In case of further problems please subscribe and send questions to +the mailing list: linux-media@vger.kernel.org. + +Probing the cards with broken PCI subsystem ID +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + +There are some TwinHan cards whose EEPROM has become corrupted for some +reason. The cards do not have a correct PCI subsystem ID. +Still, it is possible to force probing the cards with:: + + $ echo 109e 0878 $subvendor $subdevice > \ + /sys/bus/pci/drivers/bt878/new_id + +The two numbers there are:: + + 109e: PCI_VENDOR_ID_BROOKTREE + 0878: PCI_DEVICE_ID_BROOKTREE_878 |