[plug] video 4 linux - bttv

[Simon Scott]

On Saturday 21 Sep 2002 4:46 pm, Jon L. Miller wrote:
> If you get your TV card to work please pass along the information, as I
> too am having problems running this card and I have 2 of them.

yes, I finally got it working. it appears that the card was having difficulty 
sharing an IRQ with my SCSI card - move slots and voila.

I havent found a radio app yet, but I can watch TV.

The first problem was identfiying the card - my brother told me it was a 
3demon PV951TF - which is in fact a rebadged provideo PV951.... Unfortunately 
provideo appear to use any number of tuner chipsets in the same model of card 
- whatevers going cheap I suppose. Fortunately once I had told the bttv 
module what type of card it was (modprobe bttv card=42), it managed to detect 
the tuner chipset. I then added the options to modules.conf and xawtv works 
well. Funniest thing is that my brother never managed to get this card 
working properly under windows - its primary supported platform. Very odd.

Thanks for the good ideas guys. 

>
> thanks
>
> On Sat, 2002-09-21 at 07:25, Simon Scott wrote:
> > Hi all
> >
> > I borrowed a TV card from my brother that uses the BT878/BT879 chipset
> > supposedly supported by BTTV. However, whenever I try to modprobe bttv I
> > get:
> >
> > /lib/modules/2.4.19-5mdk/kernel/drivers/media/video/bttv.o.gz:
> > init_module: No such device
> > Hint: insmod errors can be caused by incorrect module parameters,
> > including invalid IO or IRQ parameters.
> >       You may find more information in syslog or the output from dmesg
> > modprobe: insmod
> > /lib/modules/2.4.19-5mdk/kernel/drivers/media/video/bttv.o.gz failed
> > modprobe: insmod bttv failed
> >
> > XawTV returns
> >
> > This is xawtv-3.76, running on Linux/i686 (2.4.19-5mdk)
> > xinerama 0: 1024x768+0+0
> > xinerama 1: 1024x768+1024+0
> > can't open /dev/v4l/video0: No such device
> > v4l-conf had some trouble, trying to continue anyway
> > v4l2: open /dev/v4l/video0: No such device
> > v4l: open /dev/v4l/video0: No such device
> > no video grabber device available
> >
> > Any clues?
> >
> > Regards