I'm trying to get an Askey/Dynalink CPH061 tv/capture card running via bttv/video4linux, latest versions of bttv (0.7.21), latest i2c (2.4.5) (patched the kernel source) and kernel 2.2.14. I have all modules loading correctly (and they report what I expect (see the verbose output from bttv below)) but as soon as I try and get anything to actually use bttv it locks my machine solid, for example, I try and run xawtv and bang, the machine freezes, same for broadcast 2000. I'm using an up-to-date potato by the way, I have an S3Virge/Dx 4meg PCI video card and have tried it with both SVGA and s3v XF86 servers.
I have tried everything I could think of, even tried compiling - unsuccessfully - a 2.3.50 (is there a debian kernel-source package for 2.3.x kernels at all, I downloaded the tar.bz2 2.3.50 and tried "make menuconfig; make-kpkg clean; make-kpkg --revision=custom.1.0 kernel_image" but the kernel compile failed with errors, maybe I was doing something wrong ?). Any ideas anybody ?? Here is verbose output from loading the bttv module... Mar 11 21:07:08 mortimer sudo: boffin : TTY=ttyp1 ; PWD=/usr/home/boffin ; USER=root ; COMMAND=/sbin/insmod bttv card=24 verbose=2 Mar 11 21:07:08 mortimer kernel: bttv: driver version 0.7.21 loaded Mar 11 21:07:08 mortimer kernel: bttv: using 2 buffers with 2080k (4160k total) for capture Mar 11 21:07:08 mortimer kernel: bttv0: Brooktree Bt878 (rev 2) bus: 0, devfn: 104, irq: 12, memory: 0xf4001000. Mar 11 21:07:08 mortimer kernel: bttv: 1 Bt8xx card(s) found. Mar 11 21:07:08 mortimer kernel: bttv0: gpio: out_enable=0x0, data=0xffffff, in=0x0 Mar 11 21:07:08 mortimer kernel: i2c-algo-bit.o: Adapter: bt848 #0 scl: 1 sda: 1 -- testing... Mar 11 21:07:08 mortimer kernel: i2c-algo-bit.o:1 scl: 1 sda: 0 Mar 11 21:07:08 mortimer kernel: i2c-algo-bit.o:2 scl: 1 sda: 1 Mar 11 21:07:08 mortimer kernel: i2c-algo-bit.o:3 scl: 0 sda: 1 Mar 11 21:07:08 mortimer kernel: i2c-algo-bit.o:4 scl: 1 sda: 1 Mar 11 21:07:08 mortimer kernel: i2c-algo-bit.o: bt848 #0 passed test. Mar 11 21:07:08 mortimer kernel: i2c-core.o: adapter bt848 #0 registered as adapter 0. Mar 11 21:07:08 mortimer kernel: bttv0: model: BT878(Askey/Typhoon/Anubis Magic TView CPH051/061 (bt878)) Mar 11 21:07:08 mortimer kernel: bttv0: i2c: checking for MSP34xx @ 0x80... not found Mar 11 21:07:08 mortimer kernel: bttv0: i2c: checking for TDA8425 @ 0x82... not found Mar 11 21:07:08 mortimer kernel: bttv0: i2c: checking for TDA9840 @ 0x84... not found Mar 11 21:07:08 mortimer kernel: bttv0: i2c: checking for TDA985x @ 0xb6... not found Mar 11 21:07:08 mortimer kernel: i2c-core.o: driver i2c TV tuner driver registered. Mar 11 21:07:08 mortimer kernel: tuner: chip found @ 0x60 Mar 11 21:07:08 mortimer kernel: bttv0: i2c attach [Temic PAL] Mar 11 21:07:08 mortimer kernel: i2c-core.o: client [Temic PAL] registered to adapter [bt848 #0](pos. 0).