Greetings Eric ,
I am using Fedora Core 1 with a Pinnacle PCTV but with the bt848 chip . I might be able to give you a couple of pointers which might help you with your problem .
Eric Tanguy wrote:
Now the problem is that i receive nothing using tvtime. I have this in demsg : Linux video capture interface: v1.00 bttv: driver version 0.9.15 loaded bttv: using 8 buffers with 2080k (520 pages) each for capture bttv: Bt8xx card found (0). ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:01:07.0[A] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ 11 bttv0: Bt878 (rev 17) at 0000:01:07.0, irq: 11, latency: 64, mmio: 0xeb800000 bttv0: detected: Pinnacle PCTV [card=39], PCI subsystem ID is 11bd:0012 bttv0: using: Pinnacle PCTV Studio/Rave [card=39,autodetected]
The above lines indicate that you tv card has been succesfully identified as card number 39 .
bttv0: gpio: en=00000000, out=00000000 in=00fff3ff [init] tda9885/6/7: chip found @ 0x96 bttv0: i2c: checking for MSP34xx @ 0x80... not found bttv0: pinnacle/mt: id=4 info="PAL+SECAM / mono" radio=no bttv0: using tuner=33
Here it says that it is going to use tunner number 33 , but i don't recall you saying that
you put in your modprobe.conf a line saying
options card=39 tuner=33
bttv0: i2c: checking for MSP34xx @ 0x80... not found bttv0: i2c: checking for TDA9875 @ 0xb0... not found bttv0: i2c: checking for TDA7432 @ 0x8a... not found
here it simply searches for some types of tv tuners
In fact, if i put the tuner to the right channel in windows and just
reboot to linux i can view the same channel under tvtime but i'm not
able to change channel. It seems to do nothing on the tuner to change
channel.
Your inability to change the channel , while you are able to view the last channel
set by the Windows equivalent programm indicates that the problem is with the tuner setting .
Could you please reexamine your /etc/modprobe.conf and tell me what the tunner=xx says
( xx is a number taken from /Documentation/video4linux/bttv/CARDLIST , the path is from
the top level directory of the source of your kernel , for example
/usr/local/src/linux-2.429/Documentation/video4linux/bttv/CARDLIST ,
where /usr/local/src/ is where i have the source code of kernel 2.4.29 taken from kernels.org
Kind Regards, Kostas
