From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S965064AbVKAIVM (ORCPT ); Tue, 1 Nov 2005 03:21:12 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S964984AbVKAIPo (ORCPT ); Tue, 1 Nov 2005 03:15:44 -0500 Received: from hulk.hostingexpert.com ([69.57.134.39]:11072 "EHLO hulk.hostingexpert.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S964981AbVKAIPb (ORCPT ); Tue, 1 Nov 2005 03:15:31 -0500 Message-ID: <436723FF.4030803@m1k.net> Date: Tue, 01 Nov 2005 03:14:55 -0500 From: Michael Krufky User-Agent: Debian Thunderbird 1.0.2 (X11/20050602) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Andrew Morton CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-dvb-maintainer@linuxtv.org Subject: [PATCH 22/37] dvb: Updated Documentation Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="------------040706080605050502010407" X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - hulk.hostingexpert.com X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - vger.kernel.org X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [47 12] / [47 12] X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - m1k.net X-Source: X-Source-Args: X-Source-Dir: Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------040706080605050502010407 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit --------------040706080605050502010407 Content-Type: text/x-patch; name="2392.patch" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline; filename="2392.patch" From: Manu Abraham Updated Documentation Signed-off-by: Manu Abraham Signed-off-by: Michael Krufky Documentation/dvb/bt8xx.txt | 43 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---- 1 file changed, 39 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) --- linux-2.6.14-git3.orig/Documentation/dvb/bt8xx.txt +++ linux-2.6.14-git3/Documentation/dvb/bt8xx.txt @@ -33,20 +33,23 @@ -------------------------- $ modprobe bttv (normally bttv is being loaded automatically by kmod) - $ modprobe dvb-bt8xx (or just place dvb-bt8xx in /etc/modules for automatic loading) + $ modprobe dvb-bt8xx + +(or just place dvb-bt8xx in /etc/modules for automatic loading) 3b) TwinHan and Clones -------------------------- - $ modprobe bttv i2c_hw=1 card=0x71 + $ modprobe bttv card=0x71 $ modprobe dvb-bt8xx $ modprobe dst The value 0x71 will override the PCI type detection for dvb-bt8xx, -which is necessary for TwinHan cards. +which is necessary for TwinHan cards. Omission of this parameter might result +in a system lockup. -If you're having an older card (blue color circuit) and card=0x71 locks +If you're having an older card (blue color PCB) and card=0x71 locks up your machine, try using 0x68, too. If that does not work, ask on the mailing list. @@ -69,6 +72,38 @@ dst_get_device_id: Recognise [DSTMCI] +If you need to sent in bug reports on the dst, please do send in a complete +log with the verbose=4 module parameter. For general usage, the default setting +of verbose=1 is ideal. + + +4) Multiple cards +-------------------------- + +If you happen to be running multiple cards, it would be advisable to load +the bttv module with the card id. This would help to solve any module loading +problems that you might face. + +for example, if you happen to have a Twinhan and clones alongwith a FusionHDTV5 +card + + $ modprobe bttv card=0x71 card=0x87 + +Here the order of the card id is important and should be the same as that of the +physical order of the cards. Here card=0x71 represents the Twinhan and clones +and card=0x87 represents Fusion HDTV5. + +Some examples of card-id's + +Pinnacle Sat 0x5e +Nebula Digi TV 0x68 +PC HDTV 0x70 +Twinhan 0x71 +Fusion HDTV5 0x87 + +For a full list of card-id's, you can see the exported card-id's from +bttv-cards.c in linux-2.6.x/drivers/media/video/bttv.h +If you have problems with this please do ask on the mailing list. -- Authors: Richard Walker, Jamie Honan, Michael Hunold, Manu Abraham --------------040706080605050502010407--