Pete Atkinson wrote:
I have a tv card which uses a BT878 chip... I know that it is possible to get this to work but I seem to be going round in circles.. I have tried xtvscreen, xawtv and kwintv and the best I have managed so far is a wonderful picture but the same picture on every channel- none of which had any sound. I have decided to start afresh, uninstalled all of the above and start again, before I do so, has anybody really managed to get this to work well ? its the only reason now for booting windows up and I would love to get rid of it totally. being in the UK, I assume that I should be using PAL-europe, also in the driver/Makefile for bttv it asks for the tuner type, how do I determine that ?
many thanks
Pete I think you tuner is on of type= 5: Philips PAL tuner 0: Temic PAL tuner 1: Philips PAL_I tuner 7: Temic PAL tuner I got this from /usr/doc/packages/bttv/. I have a Wintv PCI bus card working fine. I could never get the bttv stuff working with it compiled into the kernel. I was too impatient to find where to put the tuner type in. I load the modules. I think all you have to do is put some stuff like this in /etc/conf.modules: (somebody please correct this I'm probably wrong!) options bttv card=7 ## your card options ic2 i2c_debug=1 options tuner type=2 ## PAL is something else alias char-major-81 bttv and do a depmod -a. I'm still a newbie so I could be wrong. In fact when I got my card working I didn't even know about depmod and used a script in /sbin/init.d/rc3.d/ called S23TV: #Loading modules for a Hauppuage 404 echo "Loading i2c Module" insmod i2c echo "Loading TV tuner Module for NTSC" insmod tuner debug=1 type=2 echo "Loading bttv Module for Hauppauge WinTV PCI 404" echo " With New bt878 chip" insmod bttv card=10 This probably isn't the proper way to load the modules, but it works. I compile my kernel without bttv support but with support for video for Linux and use the stock modules. The card works much better in Linux. It has very little overhead. -btm77 -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/