[Kwintv] No control of BT878 Device

[Jeff Mills]

On Sunday 10 February 2002 21:23, Algenon wrote:
> Hi, I have installed a Flyvideo '98 FM card and kwintv-0.8.5 from an RPM on
> my RH7.2 and KDE 2.2 dual processor box.  All went well and the Kwintv
> screen comes up ok but when I try to set the channels using the wizard, it
> steps right through the band and finds nothing.  I do not know if I need to
> set some config file.  The card was detected and installed ok on startup. 
> Can someone see what I am doing wrong?
>

Hi there.
I had the same problem with my card. The problem is that the tuner type isnt 
set properly.
You have to specify it yourself.
Try this:
edit /etc/modules.conf

add:

options tuner type=5

reload your tuner module, and it should work fine!

Hope this helps :-)



> This is the output from 'dmesg'
>
> Linux video capture interface: v1.00
> i2c-core.o: i2c core module
> i2c-algo-bit.o: i2c bit algorithm module
> bttv: driver version 0.7.72 loaded
> bttv: using 2 buffers with 2080k (4160k total) for capture
> bttv: Host bridge needs ETBF enabled.
> bttv: Bt8xx card found (0).
> bttv0: Bt878 (rev 17) at 00:0b.0, irq: 17, latency: 32, memory: 0xe1000000
> bttv0: model: BT878( *** UNKNOWN *** ) [autodetected]
> bttv0: enabling ETBF (430FX/VP3 compatibilty)
> i2c-core.o: adapter bt848 #0 registered as adapter 0.
> bttv0: i2c: checking for MSP34xx @ 0x80... not found
> bttv0: i2c: checking for TDA9875 @ 0xb0... not found
> bttv0: i2c: checking for TDA7432 @ 0x8a... not found
> i2c-core.o: driver i2c TV tuner driver registered.
> tuner: chip found @ 0xc2
> bttv0: i2c attach [(unset)]
> i2c-core.o: client [(unset)] registered to adapter [bt848 #0](pos. 0).
>
> I do not know what can be done to test my setup, if anything.
>
> Colin
>
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