[mythtv-users] TV tuner card help for freeivew {Scanned}

[Phill Edwards]

> i have a vision plus DVB-T card with the conexant fusion 878a chipset.
>
> the card is seen on boot by fredora as the output from /sbin/lspci -v
>
> 00:06.0 Multimedia video controller: Brooktree Corporation Bt878 Video
> Capture (rev 11)
>       Subsystem: Twinhan Technology Co. Ltd VisionPlus DVB card
>       Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 11
>       Memory at ea000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=4K]
>       Capabilities: [44] Vital Product Data
>       Capabilities: [4c] Power Management version 2
>
> 00:06.1 Multimedia controller: Brooktree Corporation Bt878 Audio Capture
> (rev 11)
>       Subsystem: Twinhan Technology Co. Ltd VisionPlus DVB Card
>       Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 11
>       Memory at ea001000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=4K]
>       Capabilities: [44] Vital Product Data
>       Capabilities: [4c] Power Management version 2
>
>
> in /etc/modprobe.conf  i have
> alias char-major-81 bttv
>
> which was added for me by fredora,
> i have since added
> options bttv card=51 tuner=2
> this was to fix tvtime reporting no /dev/video0 device
>
> mythtv or tvtime do not pick up any chanels or signals from the card and
> i am quite lost as to what to try now.
> what do the ard=51 tuner=2 mean?

Not sure why there are bttv entries in modprobe.conf as that is for
analogue cards. As this is a DVB card that looks wrong. Have a look at
this to help you get it going -
http://www.mythtv.info/moin.cgi/DigitalTvHowto

Regards,
Phill