mcukstorm

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Works well with the bttv driver and lirc.

I have had no issues with this card.

HappyTux

The card works great however one problem I found when installing was that I had to use modprobe bttv card=34 tuner=2 to get the bttv module to use the NTSC tuner that is on my card as it defaults to tuner=5 the PAL TV tuner. To make it work properly on boot I put this in my /etc/init.d/bootmisc.sh file near the bottom.

## Leadtek WinFast TV2000 XP Deluxe for proper loading of module
modprobe bttv card=34 tuner=2

Here is what it looks like in the boot messages when detected properly.

Linux video capture interface: v1.00
bttv: driver version 0.9.15 loaded
bttv: using 8 buffers with 2080k (520 pages) each for capture
bttv: Bt8xx card found (0).
PCI: Found IRQ 9 for device 0000:00:09.0
PCI: Sharing IRQ 9 with 0000:00:09.1
PCI: Sharing IRQ 9 with 0000:00:0d.0
bttv0: Bt878 (rev 17) at 0000:00:09.0, irq: 9, latency: 64, mmio: 0xdcdfe000
bttv0: detected: Leadtek WinFast TV 2000 [card=34], PCI subsystem ID is 107d:6606
bttv0: using: Leadtek WinFast 2000/ WinFast 2000 XP [card=34,insmod option]
bttv0: gpio: en=00000000, out=00000000 in=00bf731f [init]
bttv0: using tuner=2
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: i2c: checking for TDA9887 @ 0x86... not found
tuner: chip found at addr 0xc2 i2c-bus bt878 #0 [sw]
tuner: type set to 2 (Philips NTSC (FI1236,FM1236 and compatibles)) by bt878 #0 [sw]
bttv0: registered device video0
bttv0: registered device vbi0
bttv0: registered device radio0
bttv0: PLL: 28636363 => 35468950 .. ok
bttv0: add subdevice "remote0"
lirc_dev: IR Remote Control driver registered, at major 61
lirc_gpio (-1): card type 0x22, id 0x6606107d
lirc_dev: lirc_register_plugin:sample_rate: 0
lirc_gpio (0): driver registered

fr0zen

Works great. Just make sure you have Video4Linux configured module in your kernel. Otherwise the correct tuner will not (and cannot) be selected. Of course you'll need the bt878 as a module too. Try this:

dmesg | grep tuner

You should get two lines LIKE these, at least:

If no lines appear, try the following as root:

modprobe tuner

If that doesn't work then you likely have Video4Linux embedded into your kernel rather than as a module. Make it a module and restart! This fixed all of my problems.

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In another case, you may have to edit /etc/modprobe.conf to have an entry like this:

options bttv card=34 tuner=2

The tuner value may vary for you, but the default (which seems to be 5) did not work for me.