Hi all

I want to install TV / Vedio Card of PixelVeiw on RedHat Linux 9.0 .


Device = PixelVeiw play Tv pro
Model = PV - BT878P
PV - BT878P + w/FM


I searched web on this and i got some ideas from some websites. let me tell u what did i do.

first of all i did lspci to check it

[root@localhost root]# lspci 00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8601 [Apollo ProMedia] (rev 05) 00:01.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8601 [Apollo ProMedia AGP] 00:07.0 ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C686 [Apollo Super South] (rev 40) 00:07.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C586/B/686A/B PIPC Bus Master IDE (rev 06) 00:07.2 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB (rev 1a) 00:07.3 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB (rev 1a) 00:07.4 Bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C686 [Apollo Super ACPI] (rev 40) 00:07.5 Multimedia audio controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C686 AC97 Audio Controller (rev 50) 00:08.0 Multimedia video controller: Brooktree Corporation Bt878 Video Capture (rev 11) 00:08.1 Multimedia controller: Brooktree Corporation Bt878 Audio Capture (rev 11) 00:0a.0 Communication controller: Lucent Microelectronics 56k WinModem (rev 01) 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Trident Microsystems CyberBlade/i1 (rev 6a)

note the third last and fourth last line, it meets the requirement. ok now in my /usr/src/linux/Documentation/video4linux/bttv/CARDLIST file the card = 37 (pixel view play tv pro) was found so its done. in type i could not find the one showing (philips PAL), as mentioned by LinuxFreak. in my list type = 5 is (Philips PAL_BG)(FI1216 & Compatibles). As it stated "Compatibles" so i thought to carry on with installation process. ok then i edited /etc/modules.conf and put it in the lines taken by some site that i found while searching, the lines are

# 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=37 pll=1 radio=0 options tuner type=5 debug=1 pal=b

After that i Ran the following commands

[root@localhost root]# depmod -a [root@localhost root]# modprobe bttv

they went fine. then comes the turn of dmesg, it showed a long output, i`m showing the one with tv card thingy

i2c-algo-bit.o: i2c bit algorithm module bttv: driver version 0.7.96 loaded bttv: using 4 buffers with 2080k (8320k total) for capture bttv Host bridge is VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8601 [Apollo ProMedia] bttv: Bt8xx card found (0). PCI: Found IRQ 11 for device 00:08.0 PCI: Sharing IRQ 11 with 00:08.1 bttv0: Bt878 (rev 17) at 00:08.0, irq: 11, latency: 32, mmio: 0xe7000000 bttv0: using: BT878(Prolink PixelView PlayT) [card=37,insmod option] i2c-algo-bit.o: Adapter: bt848 #0 scl: 1 sda: 1 -- testing... i2c-algo-bit.o:1 scl: 1 sda: 0 i2c-algo-bit.o:2 scl: 1 sda: 1 i2c-algo-bit.o:3 scl: 0 sda: 1 i2c-algo-bit.o:4 scl: 1 sda: 1 i2c-algo-bit.o: bt848 #0 passed test. i2c-core.o: adapter bt848 #0 registered as adapter 0. bttv0: using tuner=-1 bttv0: i2c: checking for TDA9875 @ 0xb0... not found bttv0: i2c: checking for TDA7432 @ 0x8a... not found i2c-core.o: driver i2c TV tuner driver registered. tuner: probing bt848 #0 i2c adapter [id=0x10005] tuner: chip found @ 0xc2 bttv0: i2c attach [client=Philips PAL_BG (FI1216 and compa,ok] i2c-core.o: client [Philips PAL_BG (FI1216 and compa] registered to adapter [bt848 #0](pos. 0). bttv0: registered device video1 bttv0: registered device vbi0

Now, i have a web camera attached to my system too (which also acts as a video device). when i ran xawtv, it picked up my web cam by default and instead of showing any tv, it started showing web cam. I went to option like thing in xawtv and in source i had two options "input" and "capture". capture was selected by default, when i tried to select "input" as source it didnt work. it was like "faded" out. i could only select "capture" and on capture it was showing web cam no tv. i plugged off my web cam and again ran xawtv and i got the following output.

[root@localhost root]# xawtv This is xawtv-3.81, running on Linux/i686 (2.4.20-8) can't open /dev/video0: No such device v4l-conf had some trouble, trying to continue anyway v4l2: open /dev/video0: No such device v4l2: open /dev/video0: No such device v4l: open /dev/video0: No such device no video grabber device available [root@localhost root]#

thats the problem that i`m getting now

anybody got any ideas?