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| author |   Johannes Stezenbach <js@linuxtv.org> | 2005-05-16 21:54:40 -0700 |
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| committer |   Linus Torvalds <torvalds@ppc970.osdl.org> | 2005-05-17 07:59:33 -0700 |
| commit | daeb6aa40be55b0750aea92dea78b8ebc40ca9a8 (patch) | |
| tree | 25532fb0a65b840a865daf567e195e0a6b314e73 /Documentation/dvb | |
| parent | [PATCH] dvb: modified dvb_register_adapter() to avoid kmalloc/kfree (diff) | |
| download | linux-dev-daeb6aa40be55b0750aea92dea78b8ebc40ca9a8.tar.xz linux-dev-daeb6aa40be55b0750aea92dea78b8ebc40ca9a8.zip | |
[PATCH] dvb: bt8xx: update documentation
update bt8xx documentation (Uwe Bugla)
Signed-off-by: Johannes Stezenbach <js@linuxtv.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/dvb')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/dvb/bt8xx.txt | 29 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 20 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/dvb/bt8xx.txt b/Documentation/dvb/bt8xx.txt index e3cacf4f2345..d84df8072d7e 100644 --- a/Documentation/dvb/bt8xx.txt +++ b/Documentation/dvb/bt8xx.txt @@ -17,34 +17,23 @@ Because of this, you need to enable "Device drivers" => "Multimedia devices" => "Video For Linux" => "BT848 Video For Linux" +Furthermore you need to enable +"Device drivers" => "Multimedia devices" => "Digital Video Broadcasting Devices" + => "DVB for Linux" "DVB Core Support" "Nebula/Pinnacle PCTV/TwinHan PCI Cards" + 2) Loading Modules ================== In general you need to load the bttv driver, which will handle the gpio and -i2c communication for us. Next you need the common dvb-bt8xx device driver -and one frontend driver. - -The bttv driver will HANG YOUR SYSTEM IF YOU DO NOT SPECIFY THE CORRECT -CARD ID! - -(If you don't get your card running and you suspect that the card id you're -using is wrong, have a look at "bttv-cards.c" for a list of possible card -ids.) - -Pay attention to failures when you load the frontend drivers -(e.g. dmesg, /var/log/messages). +i2c communication for us, plus the common dvb-bt8xx device driver. +The frontends for Nebula (nxt6000), Pinnacle PCTV (cx24110) and +TwinHan (dst) are loaded automatically by the dvb-bt8xx device driver. 3a) Nebula / Pinnacle PCTV -------------------------- - $ modprobe bttv i2c_hw=1 card=0x68 - $ modprobe dvb-bt8xx - -For Nebula cards use the "nxt6000" frontend driver: - $ modprobe nxt6000 - -For Pinnacle PCTV cards use the "cx24110" frontend driver: - $ modprobe cx24110 + $ modprobe bttv (normally bttv is being loaded automatically by kmod) + $ modprobe dvb-bt8xx (or just place dvb-bt8xx in /etc/modules for automatic loading) 3b) TwinHan ----------- |