Linux and Twinhan Vision Plus 1020a DVB-S Sat card setup
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Date: 01/30/05
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Date: 30 Jan 2005 10:30:17 -0800
I have a question in regards to a Twinhan Vision Plus 1020a PCI DVB-S
card and the setup using Linux as an operating system.
First I will give you some background info, I am a computer technician
and I deal with windows 2000-XP 95% of the time and also work with some
Mac OS X machines. I have not used any Linux very much, you can
consider me a newbie. I have only been using it for under 3weeks and
the only reason I wanted to switch to it from windows is because I
would like to ultimately end up running mythTV as my HTPC solution.
Ok enough of that crap now down to business, I just built a new
machine, its an Asus A7N8X-E Deluxe motherboard, NVIDIA Ti 4200 video
card (if I remember correctly) with an Athlon XP 3200+ processor and
512 megs of ram, and a Twinhan DVB-S Vision Plus 1020a PCI card (with
the Red PCB and the card is only 2 months old). I am currently running
a dual boot of WinXP Pro SP2 (Card works perfectly in windows) and
Mandrake Linux 10.1 Official with the kernel which came with that
distribution which is version 2.6.8.1-12mdk.
Basically I have installed the OS then I plugged in the PCI card and go
into Harddrake the card is recognized as a TV card and is identified as
a Brooktree corp. device. Its description is a Bt878 card and its
media class is Multimedia video. Also under Other multimedia devices
there is a Bt878 device that is for sound I am guessing that is labeled
Multimedia_other. From what I understand from what I have been reading
that at least mandrake has detected my card. From there I have tried a
bunch of different things to get this to work but I always have
difficulties like I can not get the device to show in the /dev/dvb
location (the dvb directory does not exist) I could not scan for
channels etc. I am not sure the order that I am doing things is
correct. So I am starting from scratch, I imaged my machine back to
the clean install and put the card in the machine, from there I am
hoping I can get some help to point me in the right direction on
exactly what I have to do first, second etc and what drivers and
utilities I should be using. I have spent countless hours working on
this and reading and searching posts, I have come to the point where I
have decided to ask for help. I am willing to do what ever it takes to
get this working if that means completely change distributions that's
fine also, If I get good directions I can do anything.
I am posting some info from my machine that will hopefully help.
dmesg
Linux version 2.6.8.1-12mdk (quintela@n5.mandrakesoft.com) (gcc version
3.4.1 (Mandrakelinux (Alpha 3.4.1-3mdk)) #1 Fri Oct 1 12:53:41 CEST
2004
Linux video capture interface: v1.00
bttv: driver version 0.9.15 loaded
bttv: using 4 buffers with 2080k (520 pages) each for capture
bttv: Bt8xx card found (0).
bttv0: Bt878 (rev 17) at 0000:01:08.0, irq: 11, latency: 32, mmio:
0xdc000000
bttv0: detected: Twinhan VisionPlus DVB-T [card=113], PCI subsystem ID
is 1822:0001
bttv0: using: Twinhan DST + clones [card=113,insmod option]
bttv0: gpio: en=00000000, out=00000000 in=00f22dff [init]
bttv0: using tuner=4
bttv0: add subdevice "dvb0"
lsmod
Module Size Used by
tuner 18320 0
bttv 145676 0
video-buf 16868 1 bttv
i2c-algo-bit 8712 1 bttv
v4l2-common 4896 1 bttv
btcx-risc 3816 1 bttv
i2c-core 19060 3 tuner,bttv,i2c-algo-bit
videodev 7168 1 bttv
soundcore 7008 2 snd,bttv
LSPCI
01:08.0 Multimedia video controller: Brooktree Corporation Bt878 Video
Capture (rev 11)
01:08.1 Multimedia controller: Brooktree Corporation Bt878 Audio
Capture (rev 11)
If you could give me some info on where to go next to watch some FTA TV
in North America that would be great.
Thanks
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