On Mon, Jun 24, 2002 at 03:29:43AM -0700, jack craig wrote: > i could swear that i recall reading somewhere on that site that > the v4l support was of only limited backward compatibiity. > > if so, it may not work. i'll see if ican find the reference i am > thinging about, but you should look more closely at the > compatilbity of the new to old as a potiential problem area. > > i am personally fuzzy about what the subsets are... Just to be sure, i recompiled bttv-0.7.94 against a vanilla 2.4.18 kernel. Here is the message log: Jun 26 15:41:00 remix kernel: Linux video capture interface: v1.00 Jun 26 15:41:00 remix kernel: bttv: driver version 0.7.94 loaded Jun 26 15:41:00 remix kernel: bttv: using 4 buffers with 2080k (8320k total) for capture Jun 26 15:41:00 remix kernel: bttv: Host bridge is PCI device 1106:3101 (VIA Technologies, Inc.) Jun 26 15:41:00 remix kernel: bttv: Bt8xx card found (0). Jun 26 15:41:00 remix kernel: bttv0: Bt878 (rev 17) at 00:09.0, irq: 11, latency: 32, mmio: 0xde002000 Jun 26 15:41:00 remix kernel: bttv0: using: BT878(Prolink PixelView PlayT) [card=37,insmod option] Jun 26 15:41:00 remix kernel: i2c-dev.o: Registered 'bt848 #0' as minor 0 Jun 26 15:41:00 remix kernel: i2c-core.o: adapter bt848 #0 registered as adapter 0. Jun 26 15:41:00 remix kernel: bttv0: using tuner=-1 Jun 26 15:41:00 remix kernel: bttv0: i2c: checking for TDA9875 @ 0xb0... not found Jun 26 15:41:00 remix kernel: bttv0: i2c: checking for TDA7432 @ 0x8a... not found Jun 26 15:41:00 remix kernel: i2c-core.o: driver i2c TV tuner driver registered. Jun 26 15:41:00 remix kernel: tuner: probing bt848 #0 i2c adapter [id=0x10005] Jun 26 15:41:00 remix kernel: tuner: chip found @ 0xc2 Jun 26 15:41:00 remix kernel: bttv0: i2c attach [client=(unset),ok] Jun 26 15:41:00 remix kernel: i2c-core.o: client [(unset)] registered to adapter [bt848 #0](pos. 0). Jun 26 15:41:00 remix kernel: bttv0: registered device video0 Jun 26 15:41:00 remix kernel: bttv0: registered device vbi0 i can start xawtv. It shows some static, and i can't change the channel. It complains that the tuner type is not set. Any clue which tuner works for "PV-BT878P+ Rev 9D"? This exact card is listed in the Prolink section of the Cards file so i assume that someone, somewhere has gotten it to work ... -- Victory to the Divine Mother!! after all, http://sahajayoga.org http://why-compete.org
