Trouble installing TV Tuner Card

madman_rocks · 02-01-2003, 11:12 AM

Hi
I have a Pinnancle systems PCTV Plus Indian Edition. This card uses Conexant CN878 chip. There seem to be no driver available for this chip for Linux.

So i tried instaling bttv drivers and front end as xawtv on Red Hat 8.0 (whose GUI sucks big time). It gives me the error saying that some libraries are missing for example:

liblirc_client.so.0 and libpanel_applet.so.0 were missing. So could not even install it.

Please give a way so that i can make my Tv tuner card work on Linux.

acid_kewpie · 02-01-2003, 11:20 AM

well install these other files. not that you need them really, you'd be fine to force the rpm installation erally, but just go to rpmfind.net and search for those files. you 're card is supported fully by bttv, it is THE correct driver.

and btw the GUI doesn't suck... how can a plain window suck? just press hotkeys and you're fine...

madman_rocks · 02-01-2003, 02:08 PM

The Xaw Tv is installed properly but i am not able to view any channels.
$ dmesg gives in the output that the frequency was out of range. Moreover could not find PAL-BG any where.
Settings in the .xawtv done are :
[global]
freqtab= pal-europe // that is what pcquest magazine says
[defaults]
source=television
norm=pal // Here there is no pal-bg option.

acid_kewpie · 02-01-2003, 02:16 PM

pal-europe is not a valid table, load xawtv and click on the frequency table menu and try those ones.

source is also not an option, you want input=

you read that in a magazine????? they don't know anything by all accounts.

madman_rocks · 02-02-2003, 02:40 AM

Fine, i have changed the table too tried every option given. Also changed source to input = Television

Still it does not make any difference. Moreover that magazine is one of the most reputed computer magazines in India supporting Linux in a big way. Gives solutions to problems faced in Linux.

madman_rocks · 02-02-2003, 04:39 AM

I have also added the following in the /etc/modules.conf file

#i2c
alias char-major-89 i2c-dev
options i2c-core i2c_debug=1
options i2c-algo-bit bit_test=1
# bttv
alias char-major-81 videodev
alias char-major-81-0 bttv
options bttv card=39 pll=2 radio=0
options tuner type=5 debug=1 pal=b

My card is Pinnancle Systems PCTV Plus Indian Edition.
I guess the special indian edition is causing some special problems

acid_kewpie · 02-02-2003, 06:19 AM

i doubt that the card itself is causing any problems really. the ONLY thing i have relevant to tv cards in my modules.conf is:

alias char-major-81 bttv

nothing else no mention of videodev or anything, but then i'm using a wintvgo which is more general as far as configuration goes. there was another pinacle card listed in teh docs, number 52 i think...?

madman_rocks · 02-03-2003, 10:18 AM

I figured out one thing with the help of one of the friends that there is a file tuner.c in the linux src code. This file has a function called set_tv_freq that is giving the output as "TV freq out of range".
Now when i had windows this was getting set without any trouble and then when i logged into mandrake it only showed me the last channel. So this function was setting only the last freq known that is very strange (Have to look at it in more detail). But since i do not have any Windows on my box so the freq is not getting set correctly.

But i do not know how to rectify this problem ????

HELP