[2nd posting, I first used a non-subscribed From-address] Hello, I've spent the last three days trying to get a brand new Pinnacle PCTV Rave to run and, after several hard machine lockups, finally got it (partially, thought). Here's what I did: - upgrade to Linux 2.4.20 (Debian i386 Woody) - upgrade to bttv 0.7.102 from http://bytesex.org/bttv/ - /etc/modules.conf: post-install bttv modprobe tuner; modprobe videodev post-remove bttv rmmod tuner # i2c alias char-major-89 i2c-dev options i2c-core i2c_debug=1 options i2c-algo-bit bit_test=1 # bttv alias char-major-81 videodev alias char-major-81-0 bttv options bttv card=39 radio=0 pll=1 options tuner type=33 debug=0 options msp3400 once=1 simple=1 - lsmod should then show: Module Size Used by Not tainted tuner 9476 1 (autoclean) tvaudio 11744 0 (autoclean) (unused) tda9887 3072 1 (autoclean) bttv 74592 0 (autoclean) i2c-algo-bit 7084 1 (autoclean) [bttv] i2c-core 12736 0 (autoclean) [tuner tvaudio tda9887 bttv i2c-algo-bit] videodev 5568 2 (autoclean) [bttv] - lspci -v: 00:12.0 Multimedia video controller: Brooktree Corporation Bt878 (rev 11) Subsystem: Pinnacle Systems Inc.: Unknown device 0012 Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 10 Memory at e6800000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=4K] 00:12.1 Multimedia controller: Brooktree Corporation Bt878 (rev 11) Subsystem: Pinnacle Systems Inc.: Unknown device 0012 Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 10 Memory at e6801000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=4K] - so far for the "success" part. (Thanks to Gerd and all the others working on the driver!) ----------------------------------------------------------- Two problems remain, however: - the picture is very noisy. Only one channel gives a picture that is acceptable (however still not perfect), 5 more can be recognized as TV stations. Anyway, there should be more in the local cable. I've checked the signal's quality with a TV set, and it's perfect, so that leaves only the card as the problem's source. Are there any options for any pre-amplifier on the card etc, so this could be fixed in software or is the card simply too 'deaf'? I can return it to the store until this weekend, should I do this? - running xawtv still causes the machine to lockup completely sometimes. I think it has something to do with overlay, because the lockups do not occur when running xawtv over the network, althougt I don't see any picture then. Comments/hints? Christoph -- Christoph Berg <cb@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
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