.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
+==================================
How to get the bt8xx cards working
==================================
-Authors: Richard Walker,
+Authors:
+ Richard Walker,
Jamie Honan,
Michael Hunold,
Manu Abraham,
Uwe Bugla,
Michael Krufky
-.. note::
-
- This documentation is outdated. Please check at the DVB wiki
- at https://linuxtv.org/wiki for more updated info.
-
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/admin-guide/media/cards.rst => o Cards based on the Conexant Bt8xx PCI bridge:
-Compiling kernel please enable:
+Please see :doc:`cards` 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::
-#) ``Device drivers`` => ``Multimedia devices`` => ``Video For Linux`` => ``Enable Video for Linux API 1 (DEPRECATED)``
-#) ``Device drivers`` => ``Multimedia devices`` => ``Video For Linux`` => ``Video Capture Adapters`` => ``BT848 Video For Linux``
-#) ``Device drivers`` => ``Multimedia devices`` => ``Digital Video Broadcasting Devices`` => ``DVB for Linux`` ``DVB Core Support`` ``Bt8xx based PCI Cards``
+ ./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
- 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.
+If you want to automatically support all possible variants of the Bt8xx
+cards, you should also do::
- First please remove the static dependency of DVB card drivers on all frontend modules for all possible card variants by enabling:
+ ./scripts/config -e MEDIA_SUBDRV_AUTOSELECT
-#) ``Device drivers`` => ``Multimedia devices`` => ``Digital Video Broadcasting Devices`` => ``DVB for Linux`` ``DVB Core Support`` ``Load and attach frontend modules as needed``
+.. note::
- If you know the frontend driver that your card needs please enable:
+ 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.
-#) ``Device drivers`` => ``Multimedia devices`` => ``Digital Video Broadcasting Devices`` => ``DVB for Linux`` ``DVB Core Support`` ``Customise DVB Frontends`` => ``Customise the frontend modules to build``
+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.
- Then please select your card-specific frontend module.
Loading Modules
---------------
-Regular case: If the bttv driver detects a bt8xx-based DVB card, all frontend and backend modules will be loaded automatically.
+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/admin-guide/media/udev.rst.
-In the following cases overriding the PCI type detection for dvb-bt8xx might be necessary:
+- Old TV cards without EEPROMs, sharing a common PCI ID;
+- Old TwinHan DST cards or clones with or without CA slot and not
+ containing an Eeprom.
+
+People running udev please see :doc:`udev`.
+
+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
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
-.. code-block:: none
+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:
-
-.. code-block:: none
+Useful parameters for verbosity level and debugging the dst module::
verbose=0: messages are disabled
1: only error 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 Documentation/admin-guide/media/ci.rst.
+Please also see :doc:`ci`.
Running multiple cards
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
-Examples of card ID's:
-
-.. code-block:: none
-
- 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
+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::
- The order of the card ID should be uprising:
-
- Example:
+ 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.
- .. code-block:: none
+Example::
$ modprobe bttv card=113 card=135
-For a full list of card ID's please see Documentation/admin-guide/media/bttv-cardlist.rst.
-In case of further problems please subscribe and send questions to the mailing list: linux-dvb@linuxtv.org.
+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 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
-
-.. code-block:: none
+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
-.. code-block:: none
+The two numbers there are::
109e: PCI_VENDOR_ID_BROOKTREE
0878: PCI_DEVICE_ID_BROOKTREE_878
-
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