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diff --git a/Documentation/dvb/bt8xx.txt b/Documentation/dvb/bt8xx.txt deleted file mode 100644 index b7b1d1b1da46..000000000000 --- a/Documentation/dvb/bt8xx.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1,98 +0,0 @@ -How to get the bt8xx cards working -================================== - -1) 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 Documentation/dvb/cards.txt => o Cards based on the Conexant Bt8xx PCI bridge: - -Compiling kernel please enable: -a.)"Device drivers" => "Multimedia devices" => "Video For Linux" => "Enable Video for Linux API 1 (DEPRECATED)" -b.)"Device drivers" => "Multimedia devices" => "Video For Linux" => "Video Capture Adapters" => "BT848 Video For Linux" -c.)"Device drivers" => "Multimedia devices" => "Digital Video Broadcasting Devices" => "DVB for Linux" "DVB Core Support" "Bt8xx based PCI Cards" - -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: -You can save RAM by deselecting every frontend module that your DVB card does not need. - -First please remove the static dependency of DVB card drivers on all frontend modules for all possible card variants by enabling: -d.) "Device drivers" => "Multimedia devices" => "Digital Video Broadcasting Devices" - => "DVB for Linux" "DVB Core Support" "Load and attach frontend modules as needed" - -If you know the frontend driver that your card needs please enable: -e.)"Device drivers" => "Multimedia devices" => "Digital Video Broadcasting Devices" - => "DVB for Linux" "DVB Core Support" "Customise DVB Frontends" => "Customise the frontend modules to build" - Then please select your card-specific frontend module. - -2) 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 TwinHan DST cards or clones with or without CA slot and not containing an Eeprom. -People running udev please see Documentation/dvb/udev.txt. - -In the following cases overriding the PCI type detection for dvb-bt8xx might be necessary: - -2a) Running TwinHan and Clones ------------------------------- - - $ 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 - -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 Documentation/dvb/ci.txt. - -2b) Running multiple cards --------------------------- - -Examples of card ID's: - -Pinnacle PCTV Sat: 94 -Nebula Electronics Digi TV: 104 -pcHDTV HD-2000 TV: 112 -Twinhan DST and clones: 113 -Avermedia AverTV DVB-T 771: 123 -Avermedia AverTV DVB-T 761: 124 -DViCO FusionHDTV DVB-T Lite: 128 -DViCO FusionHDTV 5 Lite: 135 - -Notice: The order of the card ID should be uprising: -Example: - $ modprobe bttv card=113 card=135 - -For a full list of card ID's please see Documentation/video4linux/CARDLIST.bttv. -In case of further problems please subscribe and send questions to the mailing list: linux-dvb@linuxtv.org. - -2c) Probing the cards with broken PCI subsystem ID --------------------------------------------------- -There are some TwinHan cards that the EEPROM has become corrupted for some -reason. The cards do not have correct PCI subsystem ID. But we can force -probing the cards with broken PCI subsystem ID - - $ echo 109e 0878 $subvendor $subdevice > \ - /sys/bus/pci/drivers/bt878/new_id - -109e: PCI_VENDOR_ID_BROOKTREE -0878: PCI_DEVICE_ID_BROOKTREE_878 - -Authors: Richard Walker, - Jamie Honan, - Michael Hunold, - Manu Abraham, - Uwe Bugla, - Michael Krufky |