Documentation/admin-guide/media/bt8xx.rst

.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0

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How to get the bt8xx cards working
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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