As promised, here are the relevant lines from my modprobe.conf to get the bttv loaded at boot: # ATI Wonder bt878 frame grabber with Philips MI1236 NTSC tuner, found by system alias char-major-81 bttv # finds wrong tuner, so state explicitly; options are pll=0,28,35 options bttv card=63 tuner=2 pll=28 That's all I have. I don't know what your second line char-major-81-0 does? Is it required? Can you explain? Mine, however, does the job of loading the card at boot to /dev/video0 and the card is fully functional in every way I can determine so far. There is one minor oddity. Perhaps someone could explain. As you can see, I have stated the tuner explicitly. If I remove the options tuner=2 line, the system thinks I have the wrong tuner. Yet, if I state it explicitly, as I have, everything works 100%: kernel: Linux video capture interface: v1.00 kernel: bttv: driver version 0.9.15 loaded kernel: bttv: using 8 buffers with 2080k (520 pages) each for capture kernel: bttv: Bt8xx card found (0). kernel: bttv0: Bt878 (rev 2) at 0000:02:0d.0, irq: 9, latency: 32, mmio: 0xef000000 kernel: bttv0: detected: ATI TV Wonder [card=63], PCI subsystem ID is 1002:0001 kernel: bttv0: using: ATI TV-Wonder [card=63,insmod option] kernel: bttv0: using tuner=2 kernel: bttv0: i2c: checking for MSP34xx @ 0x80... found kernel: msp34xx: init: chip=MSP3445G-B8 +nicam +simple +simpler +radio mode=simple kernel: msp3410: daemon started kernel: bttv0: i2c: checking for TDA9875 @ 0xb0... not found kernel: bttv0: i2c: checking for TDA7432 @ 0x8a... not found kernel: bttv0: i2c: checking for TDA9887 @ 0x86... not found kernel: tuner: chip found at addr 0xc0 i2c-bus bt878 #0 [sw] kernel: tuner: type set to 2 (Philips NTSC (FI1236,FM1236 and compatibles)) by bt878 #0 [sw] kernel: bttv0: registered device video0 kernel: bttv0: registered device vbi0 kernel: bttv0: PLL: 28636363 => 35468950 .. ok kernel: bt878: AUDIO driver version 0.0.0 loaded kernel: bt878: Bt878 AUDIO function found (0). kernel: bt878(0): Bt878 (rev 2) at 02:0d.1, irq: 9, latency: 32, memory: 0xee800000 As you can see from the log, up at the top, the kernel says bttv, using tuner=2, and then down lower, it says tuner, type set to 2. This is somewhat odd, as it suggests to me that the kernel correctly identified my tuner, meaning that I would not need to explicitly state that I have tuner=2, yet when I remove tuner=2, then the tuner gets set incorrectly. Very strange, but I have tried every possible permutation and this redundancy seems to be necessary. Also, I am not 100% certain about which is the correct pll setting. My card works so well that I haven't tried any other settings. Yet, looking at the log fragment I have just inserted above, I see that pll 28 => 32. Does that mean the system has overridden my setting and found a better one? I hope this helps, and if someone can help me understand some of the questions I have posed above, please do. It is appreciated. Thanks,Pete ______________________________________________________________________ Post your free ad now! http://personals.yahoo.ca
