| How to get the Nebula, PCTV and Twinhan DST cards working |
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| This class of cards has a bt878a as the PCI interface, and |
| require the bttv driver. |
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| Please pay close attention to the warning about the bttv module |
| options below for the DST card. |
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| 1) General informations |
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| These drivers require the bttv driver to provide the means to access |
| the i2c bus and the gpio pins of the bt8xx chipset. |
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| Because of this, you need to enable |
| "Device drivers" => "Multimedia devices" |
| => "Video For Linux" => "BT848 Video For Linux" |
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| Furthermore you need to enable |
| "Device drivers" => "Multimedia devices" => "Digital Video Broadcasting Devices" |
| => "DVB for Linux" "DVB Core Support" "BT8xx based PCI cards" |
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| 2) Loading Modules |
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| In general you need to load the bttv driver, which will handle the gpio and |
| 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. |
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| 3a) Nebula / Pinnacle PCTV |
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| $ modprobe bttv (normally bttv is being loaded automatically by kmod) |
| $ modprobe dvb-bt8xx (or just place dvb-bt8xx in /etc/modules for automatic loading) |
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| 3b) TwinHan and Clones |
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| $ modprobe bttv i2c_hw=1 card=0x71 |
| $ modprobe dvb-bt8xx |
| $ modprobe dst |
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| The value 0x71 will override the PCI type detection for dvb-bt8xx, |
| which is necessary for TwinHan cards. |
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| If you're having an older card (blue color circuit) and card=0x71 locks |
| your machine, try using 0x68, too. If that does not work, ask on the |
| mailing list. |
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| The DST module takes a couple of useful parameters. |
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| verbose takes values 0 to 4. These values control the verbosity level, |
| and can be used to debug also. |
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| verbose=0 means complete disabling of messages |
| 1 only error messages are displayed |
| 2 notifications are also displayed |
| 3 informational messages are also displayed |
| 4 debug setting |
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| dst_addons takes values 0 and 0x20. A value of 0 means it is a FTA card. |
| 0x20 means it has a Conditional Access slot. |
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| The autodected values are determined bythe cards 'response |
| string' which you can see in your logs e.g. |
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| dst_get_device_id: Recognise [DSTMCI] |
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| Authors: Richard Walker, Jamie Honan, Michael Hunold, Manu Abraham |
