Pinnacle WinTV card - warning about unknown vendor and model?

[Brian Skrab]

Hello,

I have a similar card (Pinnacle PCTV), which required a few overrides in the 
kernel for the bktr driver, in order to get rid of a similar dmesg warning.  
I've included the relevant section below:

device         bktr
options        BROOKTREE_SYSTEM_DEFAULT=BROOKTREE_NTSC
options        OVERRIDE_CARD=1
options        OVERRIDE_TUNER=4
# options       OVERRIDE_MSP=1
# options       OVERRIDE_DBX=1
# These options can be used to override the auto detection
# The current values for xxx are found in src/sys/dev/bktr/bktr_card.h
# Using sysctl(8) run-time overrides on a per-card basis can be made
# options       BKTR_USE_PLL
# PAL or SECAM users who have a 28Mhz crystal (and no 35Mhz crystal)
# must enable PLL mode with this option. eg some new Bt878 cards.
#
options         BKTR_GPIO_ACCESS
# This enable IOCTLs which give user level access to the GPIO port.

After installing the new kernel, fxtv, mplayer, nuppelvideo, and ffmpeg were 
all able to grab video from the card (and audio from /dev/dsp).  Note that 
all of this was done on a 4.9-STABLE system.

Hope this helps.

~brian

On Wednesday 04 February 2004 05:03 pm, Torfinn Ingolfsen wrote:
> Hei,
>
> I have borrowed another Pinnacle WinTV card from a friend who had it
> lying around. This is an older card, with the BT8x8 chip on it.
> It is detected by the bktr driver, but I get a warning. These are the
> bktr messages from dmesg:
> bktr0: <BrookTree 878> mem 0xcfbfe000-0xcfbfefff irq 11 at device 2.0 on
> pci1 bktr0: Warning - card vendor 0x11bd (model 0x0012) unknown.
> bktr0: Detected a MSP3451G-A2 at 0x80
> bktr0: Pinnacle/Miro TV, Temic PAL tuner, msp3400c stereo.
>
> Is this warning something I should act on? Or can i just ignore it?
> I haven't actually connected the card to an antenna yet.
>
> Now I must learn how to use fxtv...