Re: Newbie question about cheap 4ch security card

[CityK <cityk@rogers.com>]

Riba Zoltán wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I want to get working this card under my Debian
> :(2.6.24-etchnhalf.1-686 on i686)
>
> http://www.zoneminder.com/wiki/index.php/Image:4ch_DVR_card.jpg
>
> But it doesn't want...:
> dmesg:
>
> bttv: driver version 0.9.17 loaded
> bttv: using 8 buffers with 2080k (520 pages) each for capture
> bttv: Host bridge needs ETBF enabled.
> bttv: Bt8xx card found (0).
> PCI: Found IRQ 15 for device 0000:00:12.0
> PCI: Sharing IRQ 15 with 0000:00:07.2
> PCI: Sharing IRQ 15 with 0000:00:0b.0
> FPCI: Sharing IRQ 15 with 0000:00:12.1F
> bttv0: Bt878 (rev 17) at 0000:00:12.0, irq: 15, latency: 32, mmio:
> 0xd7001000
> bttv0: using: GrandTec Multi Capture Card (Bt878) [card=77,insmod option]
> bttv0: enabling ETBF (430FX/VP3 compatibilty)
> bttv0: gpio: en=00000000, out=00000000 in=00f360ff [init]
> bt878 #0 [sw]: bus seems to be busy
> bttv0: tuner absent
> bttv0: registered device video0
> bttv0: registered device vbi0
> bttv0: PLL: 28636363 => 35468950 .. ok
> bt878: AUDIO driver version 0.0.0 loaded
> bt878: Bt878 AUDIO function found (0).
> PCI: Found IRQ 15 for device 0000:00:12.1
> PCI: Sharing IRQ 15 with 0000:00:07.2
> PCI: Sharing IRQ 15 with 0000:00:0b.0
> PCI: Sharing IRQ 15 with 0000:00:12.0
> bt878_probe: card id=[0x0], Unknown card.Exiting..
> bt878: probe of 0000:00:12.1 failed with error -22
>

> lspci -vn 
no subsystem ID reported  ... and no card id in dmesg ... I'm wondering
if there is no EEPROM on the card .... also wondering if your card is
different (i.e. a new revision) from the card 77 (GrandTec Multi Capture
Card).

What happens if you don't pass a modprobe parameter (i.e. comment out
what you added in your relevant /etc/modprobe.conf file) and let the
card autodetect ... (though, as maybe surmised from my above comment,
I'm guessing a spectacular nothing )