[mythtv-users] RE: Pixelview BT878P+

[Tony Harmelink]

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On Friday 09 July 2004 13:36, Tony Harmelink wrote:
> On Friday 09 July 2004 00:15, you wrote:
> > Tony Harmelink wrote:
> > > Excuse the noob question, but how do i edit the module options for
> > > bttv?
> > >
> > > The card is a revision 9D
> > >
> > > The results of dmesg | grep bttv
> > >
> > > bttv: driver version 0.9.14 loaded
> > > bttv: using 8 buffers with 2080k (520 pages) each for capture
> > > bttv: Bt8xx card found (0).
> > > bttv0: Bt878 (rev 17) at 0000:00:0a.0, irq: 18, latency: 32, mmio:
> > > 0xdc000000 bttv0: using:  *** UNKNOWN/GENERIC *** 
> > > [card=0,autodetected] bttv0: gpio: en=00000000, out=00000000
> > > in=00ffc0ff [init]
> > > bttv: readee error
> > > bttv0: using tuner=-1
> > > bttv0: i2c: checking for MSP34xx @ 0x80... not found
> > > bttv0: i2c: checking for TDA9875 @ 0xb0... not found
> > > bttv0: i2c: checking for TDA7432 @ 0x8a... not found
> > > bttv0: registered device video0
> > > bttv0: registered device vbi0
> > >
> > > - --
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> > > .
> >
> > For Gentoo the file is (create it if it is not there)
> >   /etc/modules.d/bttv
> > which contains
> >
> > options bttv        card=72 tuner=2
> >
> > Then you run the module update script (modules-update)
> >
> >
> > also before you do this you ought to try it by hand uninstall the bttv
> > module and restart it
> >
> > --uninstal
> >
> > rmmod bttv
> >
> > --install by hand
> >
> > modprobe bttv card=72 tuner=2
> >
> > If card 72 doesn't work try card 70 or 37(I think)  (look in your kernel
> > source directroy under the bttv stuff that has a card list.)
> >
> > I had to hack my card's info to get audio working but it may work fine
> > for you (I have 2 other pixelview cards that just worked)  If you have a
> > question on that let me know.
>
> Thanks for the help.  I now at least have some sort of recognisable
> picture. Is there any way to fine tune the picture? all i seem to get is a
> fuzzy, choppy (3-4 FPS), grayscale picture.  and still no audio even with
> the line in patched through.   I am recompiling my kernel with a more
> things modularised.  i did have bttv in both my kernel and module and that
> might be causing problems like david said.
The recompile with more modules had helped i now have color picture, but still 
no sound. here is the latest lsmod

Module                  Size  Used by
nvidia               4818484  0
via82cxxx_audio        27784  0
uart401                 9732  1 via82cxxx_audio
sound                  77096  2 via82cxxx_audio,uart401
ac97_codec             17100  1 via82cxxx_audio
btaudio                15696  0
snd_via82xx            25508  2
snd_ac97_codec         66884  1 snd_via82xx
snd_mpu401_uart         6912  1 snd_via82xx
snd_rawmidi            21668  1 snd_mpu401_uart
snd_seq_oss            33472  0
snd_seq_midi_event      6848  1 snd_seq_oss
snd_seq                53776  4 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi_event
snd_seq_device          7240  3 snd_rawmidi,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq
snd_pcm_oss            50472  0
snd_pcm                89732  3 snd_via82xx,snd_pcm_oss
snd_page_alloc          9480  2 snd_via82xx,snd_pcm
snd_timer              23172  2 snd_seq,snd_pcm
snd_mixer_oss          18240  1 snd_pcm_oss
snd                    50852  15 
snd_via82xx,snd_ac97_codec,snd_mpu401_uart,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi_event,snd_seq,snd_seq_device,snd_pcm_oss,snd_pcm,snd_timer,snd_mixer_oss
tvaudio                20684  0
bttv                  144332  0
video_buf              17092  0
v4l2_common             5376  0
btcx_risc               4232  0
soundcore               8224  5 via82cxxx_audio,sound,btaudio,snd,bttv
tuner                  17100  0
msp3400                22036  0
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It's not my fault the earth is flying around a giant nuclear explosion in the 
sky!
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