On Tuesday 03 September 2002 12:55 pm, Gunther Mayer wrote:

> > I just bought a new Pinnacle PCTV (not the RAVE, not the PRO, not
> > the Studio, just plain "Pinnacle PCTV") video capture card and got
> > it all set up. It looks like this one, however, has a different
> > tuner chip than the ones currently supported.

> It probably has the MT2032 tuner(below the metal shield) which is
> well supported (at least for Voodoo TV/FM).

Assuming that's the chip thats in there, is it already supported in 
conjunction with bttv, or does something need to be ported?
I don't see that in the list of supported tuners.

> But the new card revision is not yet supported, though there were
> some recent postings here.

Is anybody seriously working on this? I'd be more than happy to help.

> > The bttv driver auto-detects card 39 (which seems right), but it
> > also auto-detects the "Temic PAL_DK (4016 FY5)" tuner (which is
> > totally wrong).
> >
> > Looking at the card, the tuner is actually a TDA9885TS chip. I
> > don't see

> TDA9885 is a demodulator, not a tuner (see above).

Okay, I didn't read the whole datasheet, but I was under the impression 
that it could perform both functions.... (I'm not a TV

> With bttv-0.7.97 you can try
> "insmod tda9887" ?

.... so if the tda9885 doesn't do the tuning, what function does this 
kernel module perform? Just curious. =) 

Anyway, let me go grab the latest bttv and try it with the tda9887 
module. I'll report back if anything interesting happens.

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