Nebula DigiTV PCI

A BT878 based DVB-T PCI Card produced and sold by Nebula.

Several versions of this card exist.

nxt6000 with bttv

(old version) works with linux kernel 2.6.16.

Successfully used with MythTV v0.19 to watch standard and high definition dvb free to air.

kernel config

( I use menuconfig for kernel configuration) Select DVB:

 │ Symbol: DVB [=y]                                                                                                      
 │ Prompt: DVB For Linux                                                                                                 
 │   Defined at drivers/media/dvb/Kconfig:7                                                                              
 │   Depends on: NET && INET                                                                                             
 │   Location:                                                                                                           
 │     -> Device Drivers                                                                                                 
 │       -> Multimedia devices                                                                                           
 │         -> Digital Video Broadcasting Devices                                                                         

Then select DVB_CORE:

 | Symbol: DVB_CORE [=m]                                                                                                 
 │ Prompt: DVB Core Support                                                                                              
 │   Defined at drivers/media/dvb/dvb-core/Kconfig:1                                                                     
 │   Depends on: DVB                                                                                                     
 │   Location:                                                                                                           
 │     -> Device Drivers                                                                                                 
 │       -> Multimedia devices                                                                                           
 │         -> Digital Video Broadcasting Devices                                                                         
 │           -> DVB For Linux (DVB [=y])                                                                                 
 │   Selects: CRC32                                                                                                      

Then DVB_BT8XX:

 | Symbol: DVB_BT8XX [=m]                                                                                                
 │ Prompt: BT8xx based PCI cards                                                                                         
 │   Defined at drivers/media/dvb/bt8xx/Kconfig:1                                                                        
 │   Depends on: DVB_CORE && PCI && VIDEO_BT848                                                                          
 │   Location:                                                                                                           
 │     -> Device Drivers                                                                                                 
 │       -> Multimedia devices                                                                                          
 │         -> Digital Video Broadcasting Devices                                                                       
 │           -> DVB For Linux (DVB [=y])                                                                                
 │             -> DVB Core Support (DVB_CORE [=m])                                                                      
 │   Selects: DVB_MT352 && DVB_SP887X && DVB_NXT6000 && DVB_CX24110 && DVB_OR51211 && DVB_LGDT330X                    
 │   Selected by: VIDEO_BT848_DVB && VIDEO_DEV && VIDEO_BT848 && DVB_CORE                                               

This selects:

 │ Symbol: DVB_NXT6000 [=m]                                                                                              
 │ Prompt: NxtWave Communications NXT6000 based                                                                          
 │   Defined at drivers/media/dvb/frontends/Kconfig:107                                                                  
 │   Depends on: DVB_CORE                                                                                                
 │   Location:                                                                                                           
 │     -> Device Drivers                                                                                                 
 │       -> Multimedia devices                                                                                           
 │         -> Digital Video Broadcasting Devices                                                                        
 │           -> DVB For Linux (DVB [=y])                                                                                
 │             -> DVB Core Support (DVB_CORE [=m])                                                                      
 │               -> Customise DVB Frontends                                                                             
 │   Selected by: DVB_USB_DIGITV && DVB_USB || DVB_BT8XX && DVB_CORE && PCI && VIDEO_BT848                              

See also

• Component definition table - for supposidly same device
• [| ATI nxt6000 chip]
• [| dvtvforum.info reference]