[plug] video 4 linux - bttv

[Scott Middleton]

I have the same card
/etc/modules.conf
bttv radio=1 card=42
tuner type=5
tvaudio
It took a lot of modprobing to find out those.

For fm i use fmtools.  So I can type fm 96.1 or whatever from the
command line. Or if you want gui i use gradio.


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
    
    
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