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 ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (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 > > > -- Pardon me, but you have obviously mistaken me for someone who gives a damn. email [EMAIL PROTECTED]
