Re: TV Card; need more info
It's a Reveal TV500, and there are linux drivers for it (sort
of...). There's even an (apparently dead) e-groups list about it. There
was talk about reasonably native support under V4L2, but I never heard
much about it.
On Thu, 18 Jan 2001, Kent West wrote:
>My cousin gave me a TV card that he had in his Windows95 box (and it
>worked there). I don't really expect to be able to get it to work on my
>Debian box, especially since I don't have a clue as to what I'm doing,
>but I stuck it in anyway.
>
>I can't find any vendor name or numbers that look like a model number.
>IIRC it originally came out of a PackardBell (cough, gag) computer. It's
>an ISA card (at least it fits in a short ISA slot), with only a few
>fingers on the bus connector; it's got a cable that looks like an audio
>cable; on a hunch I plugged it into the LineIn spot on my sound card (it
>fits). The card has a tuner box with "Philips" stamped in it. Here's
>some numbers I've found:
>
>On the etching:
>PM820201
>9635
>94V-0
>FODTVPNRP
>BPCS#060089
>
>On a label attached to the tuner box:
>SV20 9634
>3139 147 1325IP
>F11236 Mk2/PH tm
>
>On a small IC:
>TEA5582 N53123
>HnH9631 1
>
>On a larger IC:
>TL PCF8574T
>
>On a label on the back of the card:
>PMT-NSP02A
>FWTV 609018690
>
>I've got a 2.2.18 kernel; I recompiled it and added the "Video For
>Linux" item, which brought up a bunch of other choices; most looked like
>they were for radios, so I took a stab and added as a module the "BT848
>Video for Linux" option. I also ran dselect and installed xawtv.
>
>After my reboot, I tried running xawtv, and got:
>westk03:/usr/src/linux# xawtv
>This is xawtv-3.06, running on Linux/i586 (2.2.18)
>visual: id=0x24 class=4 (TrueColor), depth=24
>visual: id=0x25 class=4 (TrueColor), depth=24
>visual: id=0x26 class=5 (DirectColor), depth=24
>visual: id=0x27 class=5 (DirectColor), depth=24
>x11: 1024x768, 32 bit/pixel, 4096 byte/scanline, DGA, VidMode
>can't open /dev/video: No such device
>waitpid: No child processes
>v4l-conf had some trouble, trying to continue anyway
>open /dev/video: No such device
>can't open /dev/video: No such device
>waitpid: No child processes
>v4l-conf had some trouble, trying to continue anyway
>open /dev/video: No such device
>no video grabber device available
>
>So I thought, "Ah, module!" Then I did a "modprobe bttv", which appears
>to have successfully loaded bttv, tuner, and i2c.
>When I ran xawtv again, I got the same as above.
>
>When I run pnpdump, it reports no boards found (but it didn't find my
>sound card either, which [mostly] works, and is an old ISA
>SB16-mostly-compatible).
>
>The output of "cat /proc/devices" is:
>Character devices:
> 1 mem
> 2 pty
> 3 ttyp
> 4 ttyS
> 5 cua
> 7 vcs
>10 misc
>14 sound
>81 video_capture
>128 ptm
>136 pts
>
>Block devices:
> 2 fd
> 3 ide0
>22 ide1
>
>
>I would assume that "81 video_capture" is the tv card, but I don't
>really know what I'm doing.
>
>The output of dmesg:
>Linux version 2.2.18 (root@westk03) (gcc version 2.95.2 20000220 (Debian
>GNU/Linux)) #2 Thu Jan 18 22:52:14 CST 2001
>Detected 350801 kHz processor.
>Console: colour VGA+ 80x25
>Calibrating delay loop... 699.59 BogoMIPS
>Memory: 193288k/196608k available (732k kernel code, 412k reserved,
>2136k data, 40k init)
>Dentry hash table entries: 32768 (order 6, 256k)
>Buffer cache hash table entries: 262144 (order 8, 1024k)
>Page cache hash table entries: 65536 (order 6, 256k)
>CPU: L1 I Cache: 32K L1 D Cache: 32K
>CPU: AMD-K6(tm) 3D processor stepping 00
>Checking 386/387 coupling... OK, FPU using exception 16 error reporting.
>Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK.
>POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX
>PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfb3d0
>PCI: Using configuration type 1
>PCI: Probing PCI hardware
>PCI: 00:38 [1106/0586]: Work around ISA DMA hangs (00)
>Activating ISA DMA hang workarounds.
>Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.2
>Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039
>NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0 for Linux NET4.0.
>NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0
>IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP
>TCP: Hash tables configured (ehash 262144 bhash 65536)
>Starting kswapd v 1.5
>Detected PS/2 Mouse Port.
>Serial driver version 4.27 with no serial options enabled
>ttyS00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
>ttyS01 at 0x02f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A
>pty: 256 Unix98 ptys configured
>Linux video capture interface: v1.00
>VP_IDE: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 39
>VP_IDE: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
> ide0: BM-DMA at 0x6400-0x6407, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:DMA
> ide1: BM-DMA at 0x6408-0x640f, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:DMA
>hda: Maxtor 7420 AV, ATA DISK drive
>hdb: WDC AC2850F, ATA DISK drive
>hdc: Maxtor 7420 AV, ATA DISK drive
>ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
>ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
>hda: Maxtor 7420 AV, 400MB w/32kB Cache, CHS=986/16/52
>hdb: WDC AC2850F, 814MB w/64kB Cache, CHS=827/32/63
>hdc: Maxtor 7420 AV, 400MB w/32kB Cache, CHS=986/16/52
>Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
>FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077
>Partition check:
>hda: hda1
>hdb: hdb1 hdb2
>hdc: hdc1 hdc2 hdc3
>VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly.
>Freeing unused kernel memory: 40k freed
>Adding Swap: 62364k swap-space (priority -1)
>MPU-401 UART driver Copyright (C) Hannu Savolainen
>1993-1997<6>Soundblaster audio driver Copyright (C) by Hannu Savolainen
>1993-1996
>SB 3.02 detected OK (220)
>This sound card may not be fully Sound Blaster Pro compatible.
>In many cases there is another way to configure OSS so that
>it works properly with OSS (for example in 16 bit mode).
>Please ignore this message if you _really_ have a SB Pro.
>EXT2-fs warning: mounting unchecked fs, running e2fsck is recommended
>EXT2-fs warning: mounting unchecked fs, running e2fsck is recommended
>VFS: Disk change detected on device fd(2,0)
>end_request: I/O error, dev 02:00 (floppy), sector 0
>i2c: initialized
>CSLIP: code copyright 1989 Regents of the University of California
>PPP: version 2.3.7 (demand dialling)
>PPP line discipline registered.
>registered device ppp0
>PPP BSD Compression module registered
>i2c: initialized
>
>I've tried doing a web search for stuff like "video4linux" and "linux tv
>card", but I'm not finding anything that is basic enough for my level.
>
>I'd appreciate any pointers to any info that might indicate that I'm
>heading down the right path or that I'm completely off-base or that
>might explain things in a 6th-grade level about tv cards and Linux.
>
>Thanks!
>
>Kent
>
>
>
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