Re: ATI TV-Wonder (PCI) audio problems

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On Wed, 27 Feb 2002, Gunther Mayer wrote:

> "Andrew T. Rich" wrote:
> > 
> > Gerd (et al) --
> > 
> >  My theory is that the card needs two drivers: one to run the video
> > decoding, and one to run the audio decoding (windows requires two drivers
> > to accomplish this function).  The problem is that Mandrake is assigning
> > the video driver to both cards, I believe.  (And I can't find a driver for
> > the audio portion of the card).
> 
> There are 3 common variations in audio handling:
> a) Audio is decoded by the tuner (and must only be routed to Line Out by audio-mux chip 4052).
> b) Audio is decoded by some TDAxxxx os MSPxxxx chips.
>    These have extra drivers in bttv (e.g. msp34xx, tvaudio).
> c) (uncommon)
>    The BT878 has an audio function to get audio via PCI DMA (no external audio loopback cable needed),
>    this is supported by btaudio; however setting this up is more difficult to get line out working !
> 
> Post "dmesg|grep bttv" and "tools/detect" (from bttv-0.7.xx),
> as this shows what is used on your card.

dmesg|grep bttv:
bttv: driver version 0.7.72 loaded
bttv: using 2 buffers with 2080k (4160k total) for capture
bttv: Bt8xx card found (0).
bttv0: Bt878 (rev 2) at 00:09.0, irq: 10, latency: 32, memory: 0xde000000
bttv0: subsystem: 1002:0001  =>  ATI TV Wonder  =>  card=63
bttv0: model: BT878(ATI TV-Wonder) [autodetected]
bttv0: i2c: checking for MSP34xx @ 0x80... found
bttv0: i2c attach [MSP3430G-A4]
bttv0: i2c: checking for TDA9875 @ 0xb0... not found
bttv0: i2c: checking for TDA7432 @ 0x8a... not found
bttv0: i2c attach [Temic PAL* auto (4006 FN5)]
bttv0: PLL: 28636363 => 35468950 ... ok
bttv0: PLL: switching off
bttv0: PLL: 28636363 => 35468950 ... ok
bttv0: PLL: switching off
bttv0: unloading
bttv0: i2c detach [MSP3430G-A4]
bttv0: i2c detach [Temic PAL* auto (4006 FN5)]
bttv: driver version 0.7.72 loaded
bttv: using 2 buffers with 2080k (4160k total) for capture
bttv: Bt8xx card found (0).
bttv0: Bt878 (rev 2) at 00:09.0, irq: 10, latency: 32, memory: 0xde000000
bttv0: subsystem: 1002:0001  =>  ATI TV Wonder  =>  card=63
bttv0: model: BT878(ATI TV-Wonder VE) [insmod option]
bttv0: i2c attach [MSP3430G-A4]
bttv0: i2c attach [(unset)]
bttv0: i2c: checking for TDA9875 @ 0xb0... not found
bttv0: i2c: checking for TDA7432 @ 0x8a... not found
bttv0: PLL: 28636363 => 35468950 ... ok
bttv0: PLL: switching off
bttv0: PLL: 28636363 => 35468950 ... ok
bttv0: PLL: switching off

tools/detect:
0x80: msp34xx/tea6300 sound processor (error: Device or resource busy)
0xa0: eeprom (bt878, Hauppauge-848)
0xc0: tuner (error: Device or resource busy)

I noticed that I was running an older driver (0.7.72) and thought that
updating to the latest (0.7.90) might help.  I downloaded the tarball, but
in order to compile the latest driver, I gotta compile my kernel.  Any
ideas, while I tap my fingers and wait for 'make dep' to finish?

Andrew T. Rich





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