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  1. How to get the Nebula Electronics DigiTV, Pinnacle PCTV Sat, Twinhan DST + clones working
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  3. 1) General information
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  5. This class of cards has a bt878a chip as the PCI interface.
  6. The different card drivers require the bttv driver to provide the means
  7. to access the i2c bus and the gpio pins of the bt8xx chipset.
  8. 2) Compilation rules for Kernel >= 2.6.12
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  10. Enable the following options:
  11. "Device drivers" => "Multimedia devices"
  12. => "Video For Linux" => "BT848 Video For Linux"
  13. "Device drivers" => "Multimedia devices" => "Digital Video Broadcasting Devices"
  14. => "DVB for Linux" "DVB Core Support" "Nebula/Pinnacle PCTV/TwinHan PCI Cards"
  15. 3) Loading Modules, described by two approaches
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  17. In general you need to load the bttv driver, which will handle the gpio and
  18. i2c communication for us, plus the common dvb-bt8xx device driver,
  19. which is called the backend.
  20. The frontends for Nebula DigiTV (nxt6000), Pinnacle PCTV Sat (cx24110),
  21. TwinHan DST + clones (dst and dst-ca) are loaded automatically by the backend.
  22. For further details about TwinHan DST + clones see /Documentation/dvb/ci.txt.
  23. 3a) The manual approach
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  25. Loading modules:
  26. modprobe bttv
  27. modprobe dvb-bt8xx
  28. Unloading modules:
  29. modprobe -r dvb-bt8xx
  30. modprobe -r bttv
  31. 3b) The automatic approach
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  33. If not already done by installation, place a line either in
  34. /etc/modules.conf or in /etc/modprobe.conf containing this text:
  35. alias char-major-81 bttv
  36. Then place a line in /etc/modules containing this text:
  37. dvb-bt8xx
  38. Reboot your system and have fun!
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  40. Authors: Richard Walker, Jamie Honan, Michael Hunold, Manu Abraham, Uwe Bugla