An update to my question I tired plugging in the remote and nothing happened. I did modprobed tvaudio and i did get expected dmesg result. This seems to be part of the problem.. Linux video capture interface: v1.00 bttv: driver version 0.7.62 loaded bttv: using 2 buffers with 2080k (4160k total) for capture bttv: Bt8xx card found (0). PCI: Found IRQ 7 for device 00:0d.0 PCI: The same IRQ used for device 00:04.2 PCI: The same IRQ used for device 00:04.3 PCI: The same IRQ used for device 00:09.0 PCI: The same IRQ used for device 00:0d.1 bttv0: Bt878 (rev 17) at 00:0d.0, irq: 7, latency: 32, memory: 0xd7000000 bttv0: model: BT878(ProVideo PV951) [insmod option] i2c-core.o: adapter bt848 #0 registered as adapter 0. 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 @ 0x60 bttv0: i2c attach [LG PAL_I+FM (TAPC-I001D)] i2c-core.o: client [LG PAL_I+FM (TAPC-I001D)] registered to adapter [bt848 #0](pos. 0). tvaudio: TV audio decoder + audio/video mux driver tvaudio: known chips: tda9840,tda9873h,tda9850,tda9855,tea6300,tea6420,tda8425,pic16c54 (PV951) i2c-core.o: driver generic i2c audio driver registered. bttv0: i2c attach [pic16c54 (PV951)] i2c-core.o: client [pic16c54 (PV951)] registered to adapter [bt848 #0](pos. 1). bttv0: PLL: 28636363 => 35468950 ... ok pic16c54 (PV951): I/O error (write reg2=0x60) tuner: TV freq (0.-6) out of range (44-958) bttv0: PLL: switching off pic16c54 (PV951): I/O error (write reg2=0x10) pic16c54 (PV951): I/O error (write reg2=0x10) pic16c54 (PV951): I/O error (write reg2=0x10) pic16c54 (PV951): I/O error (write reg2=0x10) pic16c54 (PV951): I/O error (write reg2=0x10) Notice the I/O errors? Those happens when i change channels. Seems the sound chip is still confused! Anyone with more ideas? thanks Sebastian Ip On Friday 31 August 2001 00:23, you wrote: > On Thu, 30 Aug 2001, Sebastian Ip wrote: > > So anyhow everything seems to work with v4l and xawtv that came with > > mandrake 8. I can get a pretty decent picture but i have totally no > > sound. Before i found out that this card was actually a provideo pv951 TF > > i tired all sorts of combination of settings. Sometimes i can get very > > staticy sound on one and only one channel and on one other channel i seem > > to get sound that doesn't belong there. Otherwise all other channels are > > quiet. > > > > So my question here is how do i get this to work? I don't feel like going > > out and dishing out more cash for a "supported" card as this is sort of > > supported. > > I was getting inconsistent results with a PV951 board until I figured out > that the PIC on the board is seriously confused until you plug the IR > receiver thing into the card, with it connected it consistently works. > > The tvaudio module should echo something like below to the kernel > ring buffer ( /bin/dmesg ) when it is inserted: > > bttv0: i2c attach [pic16c54 (PV951)] > i2c-core.o: client [pic16c54 (PV951)] registered to adapter [bt848 > #0](pos. 1). > > Cheers, > > -- > Lincoln Reid Systems Engineer > LinuxNet - ACS lincoln@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Phone: +64 4 939 2200 Fax: +64 4 939 2201 > > > > _______________________________________________ > Video4linux-list mailing list > Video4linux-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/video4linux-list
