[plug] video 4 linux - bttv

[William Kenworthy]

Check dmesg: it will often tell you what type of card and tuner is
detected during bootup.

BillK


On Sun, 2002-09-22 at 17:08, Simon Scott wrote:
> 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
> 
>