Hi,

I'm running FC2 with a Pixelview PlayTV Pro card. I can't get it to work at all, in xawtv/tvtime/zapping.

It shows up on lspci, and /dev/video1 (my usb webcam) works just fine thru v4l2.

So what's going on? Anyone had any similar experiences, or could offer a howto on getting it running. I miss FM radio

Many Thanks in advance
Tom

do an lsmod and lspci post results

Module Size Used by
appletalk 24756 2
ipx 20012 2
p8022 1664 1 ipx
psnap 2564 2 appletalk,ipx
llc 4884 2 p8022,psnap
snd_pcm_oss 40740 0
stv680 21776 0
videodev 6656 1 stv680
snd_mixer_oss 13824 3 snd_pcm_oss
snd_cmipci 27444 3
snd_pcm 68872 2 snd_pcm_oss,snd_cmipci
snd_page_alloc 7940 1 snd_pcm
snd_opl3_lib 7424 1 snd_cmipci
snd_timer 17156 2 snd_pcm,snd_opl3_lib
snd_hwdep 6276 1 snd_opl3_lib
gameport 3328 1 snd_cmipci
snd_mpu401_uart 4864 1 snd_cmipci
snd_rawmidi 17184 1 snd_mpu401_uart
snd_seq_device 6152 2 snd_opl3_lib,snd_rawmidi
snd 38372 12 snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_cmipci,snd_pcm,snd_opl3_lib,snd_timer,snd_hwdep,snd_mpu401_uart,snd_ra wmidi,snd_seq_device
soundcore 6112 3 snd
binfmt_misc 7176 1
parport_pc 19392 1
lp 8236 2
parport 29640 2 parport_pc,lp
autofs4 10624 0
sunrpc 101064 1
8139too 17792 0
mii 3584 1 8139too
floppy 47440 0
sg 27552 0
scsi_mod 91344 1 sg
microcode 4768 0
nls_utf8 1536 1
nls_cp437 5376 1
vfat 10496 1
fat 33472 1 vfat
dm_mod 33184 0
uhci_hcd 23708 0
button 4504 0
battery 6924 0
asus_acpi 8472 0
ac 3340 0
fglrx 200356 9
ipv6 184288 10
ext3 102376 1
jbd 40216 1 ext3

00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corp. 82845 845 (Brookdale) Chipset Host Bridge (rev 04)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 82845 845 (Brookdale) Chipset AGP Bridge (rev 04)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 82801BA/CA/DB/EB/ER Hub interface to PCI Bridge (rev 05)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corp. 82801BA ISA Bridge (LPC) (rev 05)
00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corp. 82801BA IDE U100 (rev 05)
00:1f.2 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801BA/BAM USB (Hub #1) (rev 05)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corp. 82801BA/BAM SMBus (rev 05)
00:1f.4 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801BA/BAM USB (Hub #2) (rev 05)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV350 AR [Radeon 9600]
01:00.1 Display controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV350 AR [Radeon 9600] (Secondary)
02:01.0 Multimedia video controller: Brooktree Corporation Bt878 Video Capture (rev 02)
02:01.1 Multimedia controller: Brooktree Corporation Bt878 Audio Capture (rev 02)
02:02.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): VIA Technologies, Inc. IEEE 1394 Host Controller (rev 46)
02:03.0 Communication controller: Ambient Technologies Inc HaM controllerless modem (rev 02)
02:06.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ (rev 10)
02:07.0 Multimedia audio controller: C-Media Electronics Inc CM8738 (rev 10)

Cheers

you gotta load the bttv module

type
modprobe bttv

which will try to autodetect which card and tuner you have
then type dmesg and look which card and tuner it found
then edit your /etc/modules.conf and add

bttv options card=(number from dmesg) tuner=(number from dmesg)

Sorry for the length here, but here's what i did, and I don't know what to do next:

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[root@delphinius-ii tom]# /sbin/modprobe bttv
[root@delphinius-ii tom]# dmesg
Linux version 2.6.5-1.358 (bhcompile@bugs.build.redhat.com) (gcc version 3.3.3 20040412 (Red Hat Linux 3.3.3-7)) #1 Sat May 8 09:04:50 EDT 2004
BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009fc00 (usable)
BIOS-e820: 000000000009fc00 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000000f0000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 000000001fff0000 (usable)
BIOS-e820: 000000001fff0000 - 000000001fff3000 (ACPI NVS)
BIOS-e820: 000000001fff3000 - 0000000020000000 (ACPI data)
BIOS-e820: 00000000ffb00000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved)
0MB HIGHMEM available.
511MB LOWMEM available.
zapping low mappings.
On node 0 totalpages: 131056
DMA zone: 4096 pages, LIFO batch:1
Normal zone: 126960 pages, LIFO batch:16
HighMem zone: 0 pages, LIFO batch:1
DMI 2.3 present.
ACPI: RSDP (v000 MSISYS ) @ 0x000f7550
ACPI: RSDT (v001 MSISYS MSI ACPI 0x42302e31 AWRD 0x00000000) @ 0x1fff3000
ACPI: FADT (v001 MSISYS MSI ACPI 0x42302e31 AWRD 0x00000000) @ 0x1fff3040
ACPI: MADT (v001 MSISYS AWRDACPI 0x42302e31 AWRD 0x00000000) @ 0x1fff6c40
ACPI: DSDT (v001 MSISYS AWRDACPI 0x00001000 MSFT 0x0100000c) @ 0x00000000
ACPI: PM-Timer IO Port: 0x4008
Built 1 zonelists
Kernel command line: ro root=LABEL=/ rhgb quiet
mapped 4G/4G trampoline to ffff3000.
Initializing CPU#0
CPU 0 irqstacks, hard=02345000 soft=02344000
PID hash table entries: 2048 (order 11: 16384 bytes)
Detected 1992.756 MHz processor.
Using pmtmr for high-res timesource
Console: colour VGA+ 80x25
Memory: 516452k/524224k available (1540k kernel code, 7004k reserved, 599k data, 144k init, 0k highmem)
Calibrating delay loop... 3948.54 BogoMIPS
Security Scaffold v1.0.0 initialized
SELinux: Initializing.
SELinux: Starting in permissive mode
There is already a security framework initialized, register_security failed.
Failure registering capabilities with the kernel
selinux_register_security: Registering secondary module capability
Capability LSM initialized
Dentry cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 5, 131072 bytes)
Inode-cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 5, 131072 bytes)
Mount-cache hash table entries: 512 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
CPU: After generic identify, caps: 3febfbff 00000000 00000000 00000000
CPU: After vendor identify, caps: 3febfbff 00000000 00000000 00000000
CPU: Trace cache: 12K uops, L1 D cache: 8K
CPU: L2 cache: 512K
CPU: After all inits, caps: 3febf3ff 00000000 00000000 00000080
Intel machine check architecture supported.
Intel machine check reporting enabled on CPU#0.
CPU#0: Intel P4/Xeon Extended MCE MSRs (12) available
CPU: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.00GHz stepping 04
Enabling fast FPU save and restore... done.
Enabling unmasked SIMD FPU exception support... done.
Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK.
POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX
NET: Registered protocol family 16
PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfb120, last bus=2
PCI: Using configuration type 1
mtrr: v2.0 (20020519)
ACPI: Subsystem revision 20040326
ACPI: IRQ9 SCI: Edge set to Level Trigger.
ACPI: Interpreter enabled
ACPI: Using PIC for interrupt routing
ACPI: PCI Root Bridge [PCI0] (00:00)
PCI: Probing PCI hardware (bus 00)
Transparent bridge - 0000:00:1e.0
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0._PRT]
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0.HUB0._PRT]
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKA] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 9 10 *11 12 14 15)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKB] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 9 10 *11 12 14 15)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKC] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 9 10 *11 12 14 15)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKD] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 9 10 *11 12 14 15)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKE] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 9 10 *11 12 14 15)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKF] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 9 10 *11 12 14 15)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNK0] (IRQs 3 4 *5 6 7 9 10 11 12 14 15)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNK1] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 9 10 *11 12 14 15)
Linux Plug and Play Support v0.97 (c) Adam Belay
usbcore: registered new driver usbfs
usbcore: registered new driver hub
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKD] enabled at IRQ 11
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKB] enabled at IRQ 11
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNK1] enabled at IRQ 11
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKA] enabled at IRQ 11
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKC] enabled at IRQ 11
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNK0] enabled at IRQ 5
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKF] enabled at IRQ 11
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKE] enabled at IRQ 11
PCI: Using ACPI for IRQ routing
PCI: if you experience problems, try using option 'pci=noacpi' or even 'acpi=off'
apm: BIOS version 1.2 Flags 0x07 (Driver version 1.16ac)
apm: overridden by ACPI.
audit: initializing netlink socket (disabled)
audit(1085658954.957:0): initialized
Total HugeTLB memory allocated, 0
VFS: Disk quotas dquot_6.5.1
Dquot-cache hash table entries: 1024 (order 0, 4096 bytes)
SELinux: Registering netfilter hooks
Initializing Cryptographic API
pci_hotplug: PCI Hot Plug PCI Core version: 0.5
ACPI: Fan [FAN] (on)
ACPI: Processor [CPU0] (supports C1 C2, 2 throttling states)
ACPI: Thermal Zone [THRM] (22 C)
isapnp: Scanning for PnP cards...
isapnp: No Plug & Play device found
Real Time Clock Driver v1.12
Linux agpgart interface v0.100 (c) Dave Jones
agpgart: Detected an Intel i845 Chipset.
agpgart: Maximum main memory to use for agp memory: 439M
agpgart: AGP aperture is 128M @ 0xd0000000
Serial: 8250/16550 driver $Revision: 1.90 $ 8 ports, IRQ sharing enabled
ttyS0 at I/O 0x3f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
ttyS1 at I/O 0x2f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A
RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 16384K size 1024 blocksize
divert: not allocating divert_blk for non-ethernet device lo
Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00alpha2
ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
ICH2: IDE controller at PCI slot 0000:00:1f.1
ICH2: chipset revision 5
ICH2: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
ide0: BM-DMA at 0xf000-0xf007, BIOS settings: hdaMA, hdbMA
ide1: BM-DMA at 0xf008-0xf00f, BIOS settings: hdcMA, hddio
hda: ST380020A, ATA DISK drive
hdb: IDE DVD-ROM 16X, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
Using cfq io scheduler
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
hdc: SONY CD-RW CRX175A1, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
hda: max request size: 128KiB
hda: 156301488 sectors (80026 MB) w/2048KiB Cache, CHS=65535/16/63, UDMA(100)
hda: hda1 hda2 < hda5 hda6 hda7 >
hdb: ATAPI 16X DVD-ROM drive, 512kB Cache, UDMA(33)
Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20
hdc: ATAPI 40X CD-ROM CD-R/RW drive, 2048kB Cache, UDMA(33)
ide-floppy driver 0.99.newide
usbcore: registered new driver hiddev
usbcore: registered new driver hid
drivers/usb/input/hid-core.c: v2.0:USB HID core driver
mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice
serio: i8042 AUX port at 0x60,0x64 irq 12
input: ImPS/2 Generic Wheel Mouse on isa0060/serio1
serio: i8042 KBD port at 0x60,0x64 irq 1
input: AT Translated Set 2 keyboard on isa0060/serio0
md: md driver 0.90.0 MAX_MD_DEVS=256, MD_SB_DISKS=27
NET: Registered protocol family 2
IP: routing cache hash table of 4096 buckets, 32Kbytes
TCP: Hash tables configured (established 32768 bind 65536)
Initializing IPsec netlink socket
NET: Registered protocol family 1
NET: Registered protocol family 17
ACPI: (supports S0 S1 S4 S5)
checking if image is initramfs...it isn't (no cpio magic); looks like an initrd
Freeing initrd memory: 185k freed
md: Autodetecting RAID arrays.
md: autorun ...
md: ... autorun DONE.
RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0
VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem).
kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds
EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
Freeing unused kernel memory: 144k freed
SELinux: Disabled at runtime.
SELinux: Unregistering netfilter hooks
NET: Registered protocol family 10
Disabled Privacy Extensions on device 022db720(lo)
IPv6 over IPv4 tunneling driver
divert: not allocating divert_blk for non-ethernet device sit0
fglrx: module license 'Proprietary. (C) 2002 - ATI Technologies, Starnberg, GERMANY' taints kernel.
[fglrx] Maximum main memory to use for locked dma buffers: 433 MBytes.
[fglrx] module loaded - fglrx 3.7.6 [Mar 5 2004] on minor 0
Fire GL built-in AGP-support
Based on agpgart interface v0.99 (c) Jeff Hartmann
agpgart: Maximum main memory to use for agp memory: 439M
agpgart: Detected Intel i845 E/MP/MZ chipset
agpgart: AGP aperture is 128M @ 0xd0000000
Power management callback for AGP chipset installed
[fglrx] AGP detected, AgpState = 0x1f000217 (hardware caps of chipset)
AGP: Found 2 AGPv2 devices
AGP: Doing enable for AGPv2
[fglrx] AGP enabled, AgpCommand = 0x1f000314 (selected caps)
[fglrx] free AGP = 121909248
[fglrx] max AGP = 121909248
[fglrx] free LFB = 108978176
[fglrx] max LFB = 108978176
[fglrx] free Inv = 0
[fglrx] max Inv = 0
[fglrx] total Inv = 0
[fglrx] total TIM = 0
[fglrx] total FB = 0
[fglrx] total AGP = 32768
ACPI: Power Button (FF) [PWRF]
ACPI: Sleep Button (CM) [SLPB]
USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver v2.2
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1f.2: UHCI Host Controller
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1f.2 to 64
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1f.2: irq 11, io base 0000b000
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1f.2: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1
hub 1-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 1-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1f.4: UHCI Host Controller
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1f.4 to 64
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1f.4: irq 11, io base 0000b800
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1f.4: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 2
hub 2-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 2-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
EXT3 FS on hda6, internal journal
device-mapper: 4.1.0-ioctl (2003-12-10) initialised: dm@uk.sistina.com
cdrom: open failed.
cdrom: open failed.
Adding 1048784k swap on /dev/hda7. Priority:-1 extents:1
IA-32 Microcode Update Driver: v1.13 <tigran@veritas.com>
microcode: No suitable data for cpu 0
parport0: PC-style at 0x378 (0x778) [PCSPP,TRISTATE,EPP]
parport0: irq 7 detected
SCSI subsystem initialized
inserting floppy driver for 2.6.5-1.358
Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077
8139too Fast Ethernet driver 0.9.27
divert: allocating divert_blk for eth0
eth0: RealTek RTL8139 at 0xa800, 00:10:dc:32:c3:6a, IRQ 11
eth0: Identified 8139 chip type 'RTL-8100B/8139D'
divert: freeing divert_blk for eth0
ip_tables: (C) 2000-2002 Netfilter core team
8139too Fast Ethernet driver 0.9.27
divert: allocating divert_blk for eth0
eth0: RealTek RTL8139 at 0xa800, 00:10:dc:32:c3:6a, IRQ 11
eth0: Identified 8139 chip type 'RTL-8100B/8139D'
ip_tables: (C) 2000-2002 Netfilter core team
eth0: link up, 100Mbps, full-duplex, lpa 0x41E1
parport0: PC-style at 0x378 (0x778) [PCSPP,TRISTATE,EPP]
parport0: irq 7 detected
lp0: using parport0 (polling).
lp0: console ready
eth0: no IPv6 routers present
[fglrx] free AGP = 121909248
[fglrx] max AGP = 121909248
[fglrx] free LFB = 108978176
[fglrx] max LFB = 108978176
[fglrx] free Inv = 0
[fglrx] max Inv = 0
[fglrx] total Inv = 0
[fglrx] total TIM = 0
[fglrx] total FB = 0
[fglrx] total AGP = 32768
NTFS driver 2.1.7 [Flags: R/W MODULE].
NTFS volume version 3.1.
no device found
no device found
no device found
no device found
no device found
no device found
lp0 off-line
ip_tables: (C) 2000-2002 Netfilter core team
ip_conntrack version 2.1 (4095 buckets, 32760 max) - 296 bytes per conntrack
ip_tables: (C) 2000-2002 Netfilter core team
ip_conntrack version 2.1 (4095 buckets, 32760 max) - 296 bytes per conntrack
ip_tables: (C) 2000-2002 Netfilter core team
ip_conntrack version 2.1 (4095 buckets, 32760 max) - 296 bytes per conntrack
ip_tables: (C) 2000-2002 Netfilter core team
ip_conntrack version 2.1 (4095 buckets, 32760 max) - 296 bytes per conntrack
ip_tables: (C) 2000-2002 Netfilter core team
ip_conntrack version 2.1 (4095 buckets, 32760 max) - 296 bytes per conntrack
Linux video capture interface: v1.00
bttv: driver version 0.9.14 loaded
bttv: using 8 buffers with 2080k (520 pages) each for capture
bttv: Bt8xx card found (0).
bttv0: Bt878 (rev 2) at 0000:02:01.0, irq: 11, latency: 32, mmio: 0xdc000000
bttv0: using: *** UNKNOWN/GENERIC *** [card=0,autodetected]
bttv0: gpio: en=00000000, out=00000000 in=00ffffff [init]
bttv: readee error
bttv0: using tuner=-1
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: registered device video0
bttv0: registered device vbi0

it didnt detect your card so what you will have to do is take the card out look at it and find the chip and tuner type....the edit you /etc/modules.conf accordingly

Where do i find the table to lookup the parts against? Cos I know what the board has on it

http://pvrhw.goldfish.org/tiki-index...e=BTTVCardList
has the card list and tuner list

Right, I have card=70 and type=1

However, I don't know the exact line for modules.conf, google brings up lots of different methods.

Could you post the lines that work for you?

add to modules.conf

options bttv card=70 tuner=1

I don't have modules.conf, and when i made one it didn't work. How do you do it with modprobe.conf, which i do have.

I have managed to get the radio to work on my card. The radio is by default not enabled. In Suse Linux there is an expert settings button . If you go in and change the radio setting from 0 to 1. That should allow the radio to work.
I have had some funnies with the TV card being detected intermittently on Suse 9.1 though. I'll try a couple of things and get back to you.