I can't figure out how to get my tv tuner working.  I have a STB pci
tv/radio tuner with the bttv 878 chipset.  This card was detected fine
when mandrake was installed.  (I have MDK 8.1)  The first sign that
something was amiss was when gnometv started and I got the error message
thus:

Overlay mode is not working, because bttv initialized with wrong base
address.
To load bttv use the following command:

insmod bttv vidmem=0xf00



Unfortunately, this option does not appear to be valid.  when I try to
insert bttv (after unloading bttv first) I get this output:

[root@localhost david]# modprobe bttv
/lib/modules/2.4.8-26mdk/kernel/drivers/media/video/bttv.o.gz: invalid
parameter parm_vidmem
/lib/modules/2.4.8-26mdk/kernel/drivers/media/video/bttv.o.gz: insmod
/lib/modules/2.4.8-26mdk/kernel/drivers/media/video/bttv.o.gz failed
/lib/modules/2.4.8-26mdk/kernel/drivers/media/video/bttv.o.gz: insmod
bttv failed

"vidmem=0xf00" is not included in the command here because I put in
/etc/modules.conf.  The first portion of my modules.conf is what MDK 8.1
installed. The contents are:

alias net-pf-4 ipx
pre-install pcmcia_core CARDMGR_OPTS=-f /etc/rc.d/init.d/pcmcia start
alias usb-interface usb-uhci
alias sound-slot-0 emu10k1
alias eth0 3c59x
#alias char-major-81 bttv
alias autofs autofs4
probeall scsi_hostadapter ide-scsi
alias tvcard0 bttv


alias char-major-81 videodev
alias char-major-81-0 bttv
pre-install bttv modprobe -k tuner

#i2c
options i2c verbose=1 scan=1 i2c_debug=0

#bttv
options bttv card=3 radio=1 gbuffers=8 #vidmem=0xf00
options tuner type=2

I would think since this is an 878 card, bttv should be able to auto
detect my card options just fine.  Since it wasn't working, I tried
telling it explicitly what I have (as indicated above) but to no avail.

lsmod gives me this:

[root@localhost david]# lsmod
Module                  Size  Used by
bttv                   57200   2 
iptable_filter          2048   0  (autoclean) (unused)
ip_tables              11488   1  [iptable_filter]
ip_vs                  62000   0  (autoclean) (unused)
radeon                 90192   1 
agpgart                26752   3 
sr_mod                 14912   0  (autoclean) (unused)
emu10k1                54320   0 
ac97_codec              9312   0  [emu10k1]
sound                  58400   0  [emu10k1]
soundcore               4208   7  [emu10k1 sound]
lp                      5808   0 
parport_pc             20240   1 
parport                24768   1  [lp parport_pc]
autofs4                 9600   2  (autoclean)
af_packet              12560   2  (autoclean)
appletalk              21072   0  (autoclean)
ipx                    16640   0  (autoclean)
keybdev                 1920   0  (unused)
mousedev                4192   0  (unused)
hid                    18480   0  (unused)
input                   3648   0  [keybdev mousedev hid]
scanner                 7680   0  (unused)
usb-uhci               21232   0  (unused)
usbcore                50752   1  [hid scanner usb-uhci]
3c59x                  25952   1  (autoclean)
nls_iso8859-1           2880   1  (autoclean)
nls_cp437               4400   1  (autoclean)
vfat                    9968   1  (autoclean)
fat                    32192   0  (autoclean) [vfat]
isofs                  18496   0  (autoclean)
tuner                   4784   1  (autoclean)
tvaudio                 8576   2  (autoclean)
tda7432                 2944   1  (autoclean)
i2c-algo-bit            7328   1  [bttv]
i2c-core               13600   0  [bttv tuner tvaudio tda7432
i2c-algo-bit]
videodev                5056   5  [bttv]
ide-scsi                8096   0 
scsi_mod               91072   2  [sr_mod ide-scsi]
rtc                     5600   1  (autoclean)
reiserfs              158304   3 

Mandrake control panel indicates that the bttv driver is being used
twice by my card.  I am assuming that is once for the tv tuner and once
for the radio tuner. Is this causing a problem?  I have never been able
to get any video or audio from my tv card.  Any help would be greatly
appreciated!

David Savolainen

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