TV tuner woes
Jacob Meuser
jakemsr at jakemsr.com
Sat Apr 30 01:03:54 PDT 2005
On Sat, Apr 30, 2005 at 02:42:55PM +0930, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote:
> I've been having troubles with three different TV tuner cards, none of
> which I can get to work. Here's an overview:
>
> 1. A Hauppauge PVR-150 card. This seems to be a cheaper version of
> the PVR-250, which is supported outside the tree. I sent a
> message to this mailing list about this card a few hours ago, so I
> won't repeat. If you haven't already read it (Subject: Re:
> FreeBSD 4.9 / 5.3 Hauppauge PVR-250 / 350 ...), take a look.
>
> 2. An el cheapo BT 878 card. The card itself is recognized and
> supported by the bktr driver:
>
> bktr0: <BrookTree 878> mem 0xdddfe000-0xdddfefff irq 17 at device 6.0 on pci0
> bktr0: [GIANT-LOCKED]
> bktr0: Card has no configuration EEPROM. Cannot determine card make.
> bktr0: Tuner address 194
> bktr0: Pinnacle/Miro TV, Temic PAL I tuner.
>
> pciconf says:
>
> bktr0 at pci0:6:0: class=0x040000 card=0x00000000 chip=0x036e109e rev=0x11 hdr=0x00
> vendor = 'Brooktree Corporation'
> device = 'Bt878 MediaStream Controller'
> class = multimedia
> subclass = video
> none0 at pci0:6:1: class=0x048000 card=0x00000000 chip=0x0878109e rev=0x11 hdr=0x00
> vendor = 'Brooktree Corporation'
> device = 'Bt878/Fusion878A Video Capture (Audio Section)'
> class = multimedia
>
> This card sort of works with the exception of the tuner. See
> http://www.lemis.com/grog/videorecorder/log.html#12 for the gory
> details; basically, it appears that the tuner address is
> non-standard. http://www.lemoncube.com/354.html describes how
> somebody got it to run under Linux:
>
> However, after some trial and error I put this in my
> modules.conf
>
> options bttv card=0x25 tuner=38
card 0x25 == BTTV_PXELVWPLTVPRO
tuner 38 == TUNER_PLILIPS_FM1216ME_MK3
> options tuner force=0,0x61 ignore=0,0x60 debug=1
no idea what that means.
it looks like maybe you want to make bktr use tuner type
PHILIPS_FR1216_PAL
or
PHILIPS_FR1236_SECAM
bktr_card.c has a list of tuners and what bktr tuner type
probably works best.
--
<jakemsr at jakemsr.com>
> Did a modprobe bttv and tried recording something and now it
> works perfectly.
>
> My problem is that I don't understand how this relates to the
> FreeBSD driver. Can anybody clarify?
>
> 3. An MSI "Tv at nywhere Master" board, the latter with a chip that
> could be a Connexant CX 23881. I can't find any driver at all for
> this, and it's currently on loan to somebody. If anybody has some
> pointers, I can get it back and try things.
>
> Greg
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