[mythtv-users] Question on bttv parameters

[Justin Hornsby]

Nes Yarug wrote:
> Hi all, first post here and building my first MythTV box (on Gentoo
> Linux). Have a few questions, but I'll start with just one :)
> 
> In most of the documentation I have read, it states that you must
> provide card number and tuner number as options to the bttv kernel module.
> 
> How do I know what my card/tuner type is?
> 
> I have a Hauppauge DVB-S card and figured that the card type must be
> either 10 (bt878) or 4 (bt848), but I'm having trouble with the tuner
> type. Someone out there who has the same card and can provide the
> numbers? FWIW, lspci output is as follows:
> 
> 0000:02:01.0 Multimedia controller: Philips Semiconductors SAA7146 (rev 01)
>         Subsystem: Technotrend Systemtechnik GmbH: Unknown device 000e
>         Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 11
>         Memory at fdcff000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=512]
> 
> Related question, if I would have 2 different cards in  my system, how
> would I pass the different numbers to the bttv module?
> 

First of all you won't be needing the bttv drivers.

What you need is the DVB kernel drivers...

Recent 2.6 kernels (gentoo-sources) at least have the source for them 
but you'll probably have to compile the kernel yourself...

Good luck!

Jus.