dvb-bt8xx isn't loaded automatically for bt878 based DVB PCI tuner

[fubarbundy]

This has to be fixed manually at present by modprobing dvb-bt8xx after the bttv module in /etc/modprobe.d, after which /dev/dvb nodes are generated and everything works smoothly.

[Paul Sladen (sladen)]

fubarbundy: Can you include:

  lspci -vn

so that the PCI-IDs or your DVB tuner can be identified?

[fubarbundy (launchpad-mailtic)]

I have 2 identical Twinhan Visionplus DTV cards, 0000:00:0c and 0000:00:0e below. 0c.0 and 0e:0 correspond to 'Bt878 Video Capture', while 0c:1 and 0e:1 are 'Bt878 Audio Capture' according to Gnome's hal-device-manager.

Relevant lspci -vn:

0000:00:0c.0 0400: 109e:036e (rev 11)
        Subsystem: 1822:0001
        Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 193
        Memory at d7000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=4K]
        Capabilities: [44] Vital Product Data
        Capabilities: [4c] Power Management version 2

0000:00:0c.1 0480: 109e:0878 (rev 11)
        Subsystem: 1822:0001
        Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 193
        Memory at d6800000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=4K]
        Capabilities: [44] Vital Product Data
        Capabilities: [4c] Power Management version 2

0000:00:0e.0 0400: 109e:036e (rev 11)
        Subsystem: 1822:0001
        Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 169
        Memory at d6000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=4K]
        Capabilities: [44] Vital Product Data
        Capabilities: [4c] Power Management version 2

0000:00:0e.1 0480: 109e:0878 (rev 11)
        Subsystem: 1822:0001
        Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 169
        Memory at d5800000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=4K]
        Capabilities: [44] Vital Product Data
        Capabilities: [4c] Power Management version 2

I'm attaching screenshots of hal-device manager as well.

[Scott James Remnant (Canonical) (canonical-scott)]

This was right in the first place -- it's a kernel bug because the module doesn't declare what devices it's needed for

[Michael Krufky (mkrufky)]

THIS IS NOT A BUG.

This is more of a wishlist. Autoloading functionality of dvb-bt8xx is a new feature that was only first added in 2.6.22:

http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commitdiff;h=f992a497c71981e215b1415759fc13593ed2919f

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The Ubuntu Kernel Team is planning to move to the 2.6.27 kernel for the upcoming Intrepid Ibex 8.10 release. As a result, the kernel team would appreciate it if you could please test this newer 2.6.27 Ubuntu kernel. There are one of two ways you should be able to test:

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