Help with tv tuner setup

Julian Elischer julian at elischer.org
Wed Aug 10 22:07:43 GMT 2005


Julian Elischer wrote:
> Karolis Tamutis wrote:
> 
>> Hello again. I've added this to my kernel config file:
>>
>> options BROOKTREE_SYSTEM_DEFAULT=BROOKTREE_PAL
>>
>> Now dmesg shows:
>>
>> %dmesg|grep bktr
>> bktr0: <BrookTree 878> mem 0xe6000000-0xe6000fff irq 5 at device 9.0 
>> on pci0
>> bktr0: Leadtek Winfast TV 2000, Philips FR1216 PAL FM tuner.
> 
> 
> 
> TV is broadcast using FM
> 

uh,
correcting myself.. TV SOUND is broadcast using FM
The B/W video is of course a SSB transmission as far as I remember,
with a phase modulated Colour signal some 3.8MHz away from the
main carrier frequency,
So you need an FM decoder in your PAL tuner.

>>
>> This time, it says PAL, but I feel it is still not right, because my
>> tuner doesn't have FM radio!
>> Also, I have tried most of sysctl hw.bt848.tuner values, even set
>> hw.bt848.format to 0 as suggested - still no luck. Could it be, that
>> europe-east frequency table is not right for me? The bad thing is that
>> I don't have windows right now to see those frequencies that make this
>> tuner show something. Last thing I could do is modify the source of
>> something where these frequency tables are defined..
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