Hi guys
I have a pixilview TV card and i think the card number / tuner number is autodetected wrong, i think the correct card no is 72 and tuner is 28, only problem is I don't know how to change it, I tried modprob bttv card=72
but i don't think anything changed, im fairly new to linux, could you give me the commands to type so i can change it also how do i check if it has changed other than see if the card works, Im running mepis 6. I found a how-to on this site that suggested you can edit modprob.conf but i don't seem to have this file. I know this card will work on this machine i had it going about 12 months back with meips 3 . Any help greatly appreciated

if your card uses the bttv driver you can use:

dmesg | grep bttv

(note that "|" is the pipe symbol and on most keyboards is shift and "\")

to see how the driver detects your card. mine looks like this:

thanks that confirms that the autodetect gets the wrong card and tuner

rtron@1[~]$ dmesg |grep btt
[4294682.200000] bttv: driver version 0.9.16 loaded
[4294682.200000] bttv: using 8 buffers with 2080k (520 pages) each for capture
[4294682.319000] bttv: Bt8xx card found (0).
[4294682.320000] bttv0: Bt878 (rev 17) at 0000:00:08.0, irq: 10, latency: 32, mmio: 0xd9008000
[4294682.320000] bttv0: using: *** UNKNOWN/GENERIC *** [card=0,autodetected]
[4294682.320000] bttv0: gpio: en=00000000, out=00000000 in=00ffc0ff [init]
[4294682.324000] bttv0: using tuner=-1
[4294682.368000] bttv0: i2c: checking for MSP34xx @ 0x80... not found
[4294682.371000] bttv0: i2c: checking for TDA9875 @ 0xb0... not found
[4294682.373000] bttv0: i2c: checking for TDA7432 @ 0x8a... not found
[4294682.375000] bttv0: i2c: checking for TDA9887 @ 0x86... not found
[4294682.377000] bttv0: registered device video0
[4294682.377000] bttv0: registered device vbi0
rtron@1[~]$
So how do i change the settings?
i need to set the card to 72 and the tuner to 28
thanks

Mephis is a Debian based system right? If so first confirm you can get it to work by modprobe -r bttv and the tuner module then modprobe bttv card=72 tuner=28. Now if working then create the file /etc/modprobe.d/tvcard with this for the contents.

Then these setting will be used on boot when loading the module.

Thanks guys I now have a functioning TV card ( don't know what id do without you)
Thanks again
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