Twinhan VP-1025: Difference between revisions
No edit summary |
No edit summary |
||
| Line 18: | Line 18: | ||
==Footnote== |
==Footnote== |
||
it has been suggested by linuxtv developper that the following source code change does not help |
|||
please be advised |
|||
With the recent kernel drivers the DST front end may fail to load. Kernel 2.6.17 for example. In the source edit drivers/media/dvb/bt8xx/dst.c at about line 89. In the function "int dst_gpio_outb" look for udelay(1000). Change that to msleep(200). Compile and install the modules and your 1025 will work just fine. |
With the recent kernel drivers the DST front end may fail to load. Kernel 2.6.17 for example. In the source edit drivers/media/dvb/bt8xx/dst.c at about line 89. In the function "int dst_gpio_outb" look for udelay(1000). Change that to msleep(200). Compile and install the modules and your 1025 will work just fine. |
||
---- |
|||
If you are having trouble using your card, in particular if the drivers load without errors but the device don't get created, (but they could be created but the card doesn't work anyway) |
|||
cold booting the system could resolve your problem, on some motherboards, the card doesn't reinitialize properly on reboot, so turning off the system completly may be needed to get the card to work |
|||
Revision as of 03:01, 2 February 2007
DVB-S Budget PCI card by Twinhan Technology Co. Ltd
Sold with trade name: TwinhanDTV Sat-Express
This low-profile-card is equipped with the Conexant Bt8xx PCI bridge and uses the bttv driver.
Well suppported by LinuxTV drivers.
Modules:
> modprobe bttv i2c_hw=1 card=0x71
> modprobe dvb-bt8xx
> modprobe dst
Here is a scan of the card:
Footnote
it has been suggested by linuxtv developper that the following source code change does not help please be advised With the recent kernel drivers the DST front end may fail to load. Kernel 2.6.17 for example. In the source edit drivers/media/dvb/bt8xx/dst.c at about line 89. In the function "int dst_gpio_outb" look for udelay(1000). Change that to msleep(200). Compile and install the modules and your 1025 will work just fine.
If you are having trouble using your card, in particular if the drivers load without errors but the device don't get created, (but they could be created but the card doesn't work anyway) cold booting the system could resolve your problem, on some motherboards, the card doesn't reinitialize properly on reboot, so turning off the system completly may be needed to get the card to work