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Originally Posted by marcusshirley
Hi,
I am setting up my first linux system. I am using Debian Sarge 3.1r1.
I want to use my bt878 tv card to watch television.
I am pretty sure that the Kernel I have is 2.4.xx.
Could anyone run me through how to set the drivers up please?
I have tried installing bttv but I think I may have done this incorrectly. I belive it may be semi installed or not installed at all (I'm a newbie...!). I don't have video4linux to my knowledge but I am not sure which download I want considering my kernel version. Is video4linux even supported under 2.4.xx? If not, how can I upgrade my kernel?
Sorry for all the newbie questions!
Thanks in advance,
Marcus Shirley
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Should not really be having to do anything to setup the drivers they would be detected and loaded on boot look for a section like this in your boot messages use
dmesg in a console window.
Code:
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).
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:0a.0[A] -> GSI 18 (level, low) -> IRQ 18
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:0a.0 to 64
bttv0: Bt878 (rev 17) at 0000:00:0a.0, irq: 18, latency: 64, mmio: 0xfdffd000
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=00bf7707 [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 0-0061: chip found @ 0xc2 (bt878 #0 [sw])
tuner 0-0061: type set to 2 (Philips NTSC (FI1236,FM1236 and compatibles))
bttv0: registered device video0
bttv0: registered device vbi0
bttv0: registered device radio0
bttv0: PLL: 28636363 => 35468950 .. ok
bttv0: add subdevice "remote0"
This tells you card was detected if you see this then install the package xawtv and use the command in a console again
xawtv -hwscan then you should seee similar to this with your card listed in the output somewhere.
Code:
>$ xawtv -hwscan
This is xawtv-3.94, running on Linux/x86_64 (2.6.12-ck6.291205)
looking for available devices
port 244-244 [ -xvport 244 ]
type : Xvideo, video overlay
name : video4linux
port 245-245
type : Xvideo, image scaler
name : NV17 Video Overlay
port 246-246
type : Xvideo, image scaler
name : NV17 Video Texture
port 247-278
type : Xvideo, image scaler
name : NV05 Video Blitter
port 279-279 [ -xvport 279 ]
type : Xvideo, video overlay
name : NVIDIA Video Interface Port
/dev/video0: OK [ -device /dev/video0 ]
type : v4l2
name : BT878 video (Leadtek WinFast 20
flags: overlay capture tuner
Now if you see both of these then use the command
scantv to have it scan for channels and create a default config. One problem you may run into is sometimes the bttv module will load the wrong tuner and you will not get a signal found if this happens then can you post info on the card you have and the tv standard you are using.
