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1How to get the Nebula, PCTV and Twinhan DST cards working
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4This class of cards has a bt878a as the PCI interface, and
5require the bttv driver.
6
7Please pay close attention to the warning about the bttv module
8options below for the DST card.
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101) General informations
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13These drivers require the bttv driver to provide the means to access
14the i2c bus and the gpio pins of the bt8xx chipset.
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16Because of this, you need to enable
17"Device drivers" => "Multimedia devices"
18 => "Video For Linux" => "BT848 Video For Linux"
19
20Furthermore you need to enable
21"Device drivers" => "Multimedia devices" => "Digital Video Broadcasting Devices"
22 => "DVB for Linux" "DVB Core Support" "BT8xx based PCI cards"
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242) Loading Modules
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27In general you need to load the bttv driver, which will handle the gpio and
28i2c communication for us, plus the common dvb-bt8xx device driver.
29The frontends for Nebula (nxt6000), Pinnacle PCTV (cx24110) and
30TwinHan (dst) are loaded automatically by the dvb-bt8xx device driver.
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323a) Nebula / Pinnacle PCTV
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34
35 $ modprobe bttv (normally bttv is being loaded automatically by kmod)
36 $ modprobe dvb-bt8xx (or just place dvb-bt8xx in /etc/modules for automatic loading)
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393b) TwinHan and Clones
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41
42 $ modprobe bttv i2c_hw=1 card=0x71
43 $ modprobe dvb-bt8xx
44 $ modprobe dst
45
46The value 0x71 will override the PCI type detection for dvb-bt8xx,
47which is necessary for TwinHan cards.
48
49If you're having an older card (blue color circuit) and card=0x71 locks
50your machine, try using 0x68, too. If that does not work, ask on the
51mailing list.
52
53The DST module takes a couple of useful parameters.
54
55verbose takes values 0 to 4. These values control the verbosity level,
56and can be used to debug also.
57
58verbose=0 means complete disabling of messages
59 1 only error messages are displayed
60 2 notifications are also displayed
61 3 informational messages are also displayed
62 4 debug setting
63
64dst_addons takes values 0 and 0x20. A value of 0 means it is a FTA card.
650x20 means it has a Conditional Access slot.
66
67The autodected values are determined bythe cards 'response
68string' which you can see in your logs e.g.
69
70dst_get_device_id: Recognise [DSTMCI]
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74Authors: Richard Walker, Jamie Honan, Michael Hunold, Manu Abraham