[mythtv] voodoo 3500 (very newbie)

Bertus mythtv-dev@snowman.net
Fri, 13 Dec 2002 00:47:10 -0600


Base on that and some of the problems I've seen in the nvidia forums you
might  want to try checking your bios and making sure that PNP OS is off and
that your VGA is getting and IRQ assign...it might have something to do....

But other than that...I can't think of anything

Roberto
----- Original Message -----
From: "Kevin D. Timm" <kevindtimm@attbi.com>
To: <mythtv-dev@snowman.net>
Sent: Friday, December 13, 2002 12:09 AM
Subject: RE: [mythtv] voodoo 3500 (very newbie)


> I tried your suggestions (Roberto) and have been having better
> luck, I just can't get it to modprobe the bttv in yet.  I get:
>
> /lib/modules/2.4.19-16mdk/kernel/drivers/media/video/bttv.o.gz:
init_module:
> No such device
> Hint: insmod errors can be caused by incorrect module parameters,
including
> invalid IO or IRQ parameters.
>       You may find more information in syslog or the output from dmesg
> modprobe: insmod
> /lib/modules/2.4.19-16mdk/kernel/drivers/media/video/bttv.o.gz failed
> modprobe: insmod bttv failed
>
> dmesg reports:
>
> Linux video capture interface: v1.00
> bttv: driver version 0.7.96 loaded
> bttv: using 4 buffers with 2080k (8320k total) for capture
> bttv: Host bridge is VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C597 [Apollo VP3]
> bttv: Host bridge is VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C596 Power Management
>
> lspci -v reports:
>
> 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: 3Dfx Interactive, Inc. Voodoo 3 (rev
01)
> (prog-if 00 [VGA])
>         Subsystem: 3Dfx Interactive, Inc. Voodoo3 3500 TV (NTSC)
>         Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster- SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop-
ParErr-
> Stepping- SERR- FastB2B-
>         Status: Cap+ 66Mhz+ UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort-
> <TAbort-<MAbort- >SERR- <PERR+
>         Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 11
>         Region 0: Memory at e4000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=32M]
>         Region 1: Memory at e8000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=32M]
>         Region 2: I/O ports at d000 [size=256]
>         Expansion ROM at e6000000 [disabled] [size=64K]
>         Capabilities: [54] AGP version 1.0
>                 Status: RQ=7 SBA+ 64bit+ FW- Rate=x1,x2
>                 Command: RQ=0 SBA- AGP- 64bit- FW- Rate=<none>
>         Capabilities: [60] Power Management version 1
>                 Flags: PMEClk- DSI+ D1- D2- AuxCurrent=0mA
> PME(D0-,D1-,D2-,D3hot-,D3cold-)
>                 Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME-
>
> Additionally, lsmod returns (there are many more, but I insmod'd all of
> these):
>
> Module                  Size  Used by    Not tainted
> tuner                   9536   0  (unused)
> i2c-voodoo3             2604   0  (unused)
> i2c-algo-bit            7432   2  [i2c-voodoo3]
> i2c-dev                 4420   0  (unused)
> i2c-core               15332   0  [tuner i2c-algo-bit i2c-dev]
> tdfx                   31524   0  (unused)
>
> Too much information?
>
> TIA,
>
> KT
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: mythtv-dev-admin@snowman.net
> [mailto:mythtv-dev-admin@snowman.net]On Behalf Of Bertus
> Sent: Thursday, December 12, 2002 9:31 PM
> To: mythtv-dev@snowman.net
> Subject: Re: [mythtv] voodoo 3500 (very newbie)
>
>
> It seams too simple to me, but you might want to try this:
>
>       TV
>       Escrito por: Anónimo sobre 20/05 01:57
>       Hola..
>       Proba levantando el tuner primero de esta manera:   (try modporbing
> the tuner first)
>       modprobe tuner type=5
>
>       Bien ahora si levanta bien el modulo del tuner, tendrias que
levantar
> el modulo del bttv que de esta manera:
>       (Well, if it works, you would have to try modprobing the bttv
module,
> this way:)
>       modprobe bttv card=0x44
>
>       Ahora tendrias que poder ver la tele =) con el xawtv (aunque el
xawtv
> lo vas a tener que configurar para pal-nc y listo)      (Now you should
have
> to be able to watch tv with xawtv [you might have to configure xawtv for
> pal-nc and we are done])
>
>       Suerte
>       (good luck)
>
>       Found here:
> http://www.starlinux.net/article.php?story=20020519134854194#comments
>
>
> Roberto
>
> P.S.: Excuse the poor translation...
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Cecil Watson" <cwatson@linkline.com>
> To: <mythtv-dev@snowman.net>
> Sent: Thursday, December 12, 2002 7:25 PM
> Subject: Re: [mythtv] voodoo 3500 (very newbie)
>
>
> > On Wednesday 11 December 2002 07:58 pm, Kevin D. Timm wrote:
> > > I see that v4l (supposedly) supports the 3dfx 3500 TV card,
> > > but I can't find any way to load this card in mythtv.  Am
> > > I this dense or what am I missing?
> > >
> > > I can make the kernel, compile v4l support in, i2c support
> > > in, but what modules do I have to modprobe/insmod?  I'm
> > > just lost here.
> > >
> > > TIA
> > >
> > > KT
> > >
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