ATI TV Wonder PCI

ATI TV Wonder PCI

[Harol Hunter]

Hi there people:

I have an ATI TV Wonder 550 PCI card and I can't make linux recognize it properly. I've been googling a lot with no result. Here I let you my lscpi results:

01:0b.0 Multimedia controller [0480]: ATI Technologies Inc Theater 550 PRO PCI [ATI TV Wonder 550] [1002:4d52]
    Subsystem: ATI Technologies Inc Unknown device [1002:a346]
    Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 5
    Memory at bff00000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=1M]
    Memory at de000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=32M]
    Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 2

I read that I have to load the right modules for it and this is what I've done 'till now

$ sudo modprobe bttv card=63 tuner=44 radio=1

and with no parameters also. Bttv loads properly but still won't recognize the cards. Am I doing anything wrong or it's just my card. I must say I can watch TV on Windows with this very same card

Thanks in advance
Harol


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Re: ATI TV Wonder PCI

[stuart]

Harol Hunter wrote:
> Hi there people:
> 
> I have an ATI TV Wonder 550 PCI card and I can't make linux recognize it properly. I've been googling a lot with no result. Here I let you my lscpi results:
> 
> 01:0b.0 Multimedia controller [0480]: ATI Technologies Inc Theater 550 PRO PCI [ATI TV Wonder 550] [1002:4d52]
>     Subsystem: ATI Technologies Inc Unknown device [1002:a346]
>     Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 5
>     Memory at bff00000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=1M]
>     Memory at de000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=32M]
>     Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 2
> 
> I read that I have to load the right modules for it and this is what I've done 'till now
> 
> $ sudo modprobe bttv card=63 tuner=44 radio=1
> 
> and with no parameters also. Bttv loads properly but still won't recognize the cards. Am I doing anything wrong or it's just my card. I must say I can watch TV on Windows with this very same card
> 
> Thanks in advance
> Harol

Got to ask, if you are in the state, why are you fooling w/an NTSC tuner 
(unless you are connected to a subscription service - then pardon my 
dribble!).

Any ways - I just installed some ATI tuners as well - but, I checked 
(lspci) and they are not the same type.  You will find that ATI / AMD 
named almost all their tuners "ATI Wonder" making it very difficult to 
distinguish which is which (let alone which are well, partially and not 
supported here in linux land).

That said, have you googled to find like minded people w/the same 
problem?  So far, what I have found leads me to think you are at a dead 
end w/this particular ATI:

http://lists.linuxcoding.com/rhl/2008q1/msg04270.html

Further evidence that your card might not work can be found here (search 
for "ATI "):

http://www.mythtv.org/docs/mythtv-HOWTO-3.html

I say "might not work" as, again, ATI / AMD's crappy naming is 
confusing.  I think you have an "ATI Wonder" card and I have an "ATI 
All-in-Wonder" card.  But from our lspci's I can not be sure.  I'm 
basing the true name of your card from the ATI / AMD's web site:

http://ati.amd.com/products/tvwonder550/index.html

Ah, here's the coffin nail (search for your 550 card):

http://www.linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php/ATI/AMD#ATI_Graphic_cards_with_TV_Tuners_and.2For_Capture_facilities

Regardless, if you are serious about using a tuner in linux (i.e. going 
to build a mythtv box) I would approach the problem the other way 
around.  First check for support then go out and buy a tuner.

In case you want to get what I have, this is one of the results from my 
lspci (I think I get 3 per ATI card).  I'm still putting together this 
mythtv box.  But the ATSC feature of this card appears to be working (in 
a Debian system):

01:06.0 Multimedia video controller: Conexant Systems, Inc. 
CX23880/1/2/3 PCI Vi
deo and Audio Decoder (rev 05)
         Subsystem: ATI Technologies Inc HDTV Wonder
         Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 17
         Memory at fa000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16M]
         Capabilities: <access denied>
         Kernel driver in use: cx8800
         Kernel modules: cx8800




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stream rate question

[Michael Williamson]

Hi, 

I have a question. Is there any way to slow down the
stream rate so that I can use many USB cameras simultaneously?
Currently, I must turn on and off streaming sequentially
for each camera, because attempting to turn on streaming
for all the cameras at once fails saying that the USB bus 
can not handle the bandwidth.

Thanks,
-Mike



      

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Re: stream rate question

[Dongsoo, Nathaniel Kim]

Hi Mike,

As I understand, what you asking about is frame rate control. Am I right?
I think that could be handle by VIDIOC_S_PARM, with handling v4l2_fract.
I have never been using usb camera in linux, but in other camera
drivers it can be handled like that.
Cheers,

Nate



On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 3:21 AM, Michael Williamson
<michael_h_williamson@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I have a question. Is there any way to slow down the
> stream rate so that I can use many USB cameras simultaneously?
> Currently, I must turn on and off streaming sequentially
> for each camera, because attempting to turn on streaming
> for all the cameras at once fails saying that the USB bus
> can not handle the bandwidth.
>
> Thanks,
> -Mike
>
>
>
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Re: ATI TV Wonder PCI

[Devin Heitmueller]

On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 4:26 PM, Harol Hunter <hawk_eyes80@yahoo.com.mx> wrote:
> That explains a lot, so my card it's not supported by bttv driver, I'm quite disappointed. I guess I'll have to install a Virtual Machine with XP just to watch TV on my Linux,  thanks for your help anyway people.
>
> Saludos
> Harol

ATI has been less than cooperative in this area.  And now that the
division that makes the Theatre chipsets has been sold to Broadcom,
it's safe to support is not going to be coming for their cards anytime
soon (based on the discussions I've had with them).

Dedicated capture cards have gotten dirt cheap, so if you want to
watch TV under Linux your best bet is to get a supported device.

Devin

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Re: ATI TV Wonder PCI

[Harol Hunter]

Harol Hunter wrote:

>>> I have an ATI TV Wonder 550 PCI card and I can't make linux recognize it properly. I've been googling a
>>> lot with no result. Here I let you my lscpi results:
>>>
>>> 01:0b.0 Multimedia controller [0480]: ATI Technologies Inc Theater 550 PRO PCI [ATI TV Wonder 550] [1002:4d52]
>>>     Subsystem: ATI Technologies Inc Unknown device [1002:a346]
>>>
>>> ....
>>>
>>> I read that I have to load the right modules for it and this is what I've done 'till now 
>>> $ sudo modprobe bttv card=63 tuner=44 radio=1
>>> and with no parameters also. Bttv loads properly but still won't recognize the cards. Am I doing anything
>>> wrong or it's just my card. I must say I can watch TV on
>>> Windows with this very same card
>> You will find that ATI / AMD named almost all their tuners "ATI
>> Wonder" making it very difficult to distinguish which
>> is which 
>> ....
>> evidence that your card might not work can be found
>> here ... Ah, here's the coffin nail (search for your 550 card):
>> http://www.linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php/ATI/AMD 
>
> about my card as I say it's an ATI TV
> Wonder 550 PCI, reading CARDLIST.bttv in kernel Doc I found
> out it's supported by bttv driver so I thought it might
> be easy to configure, but the real problem is that even when
> then kernel sees the card it wont recognize it, anyone who
> has had this problem?
>  


Harol,

you have misunderstood -- your card is NOT supported.  Your device does
not use one of the PCI bridges supported by the bttv driver .  Your card
uses the Theater 550 Pro as its PCI bridge (as well as for some other
functions; A/V decoding, MPEG2 encoding) , and there is no driver for
that IC; and, consequently, no support for your card.

As an FYI, look again at the bttv card list and you will see that the
subsystem ID for entry 63 is different from your own card (which you
will see listed above in the output of lspci you generated;
specifically:[1002:a346]).  Also take note of the pertinent information
that Stuart previously provided and which I have included above in the
quotation.


That explains a lot, so my card it's not supported by bttv driver, I'm quite disappointed. I guess I'll have to install a Virtual Machine with XP just to watch TV on my Linux,  thanks for your help anyway people.

Saludos
Harol



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Re: ATI TV Wonder PCI

[stuart]

Harol Hunter wrote:
> 
> 
> 
> 
> ----- Mensaje original ---- De: stuart <stuart@xnet.com> Para: Harol
> Hunter <hawk_eyes80@yahoo.com.mx> CC: video4linux-list@redhat.com 
> Enviado: miércoles, 15 de abril, 2009 14:15:45 Asunto: Re: ATI TV
> Wonder PCI
> 
> 
> 
> Harol Hunter wrote:
>> Hi there people:
>> 
>> I have an ATI TV Wonder 550 PCI card and I can't make linux
>> recognize it properly. I've been googling a lot with no result.
>> Here I let you my lscpi results:
>> 
>> 01:0b.0 Multimedia controller [0480]: ATI Technologies Inc Theater
>> 550 PRO PCI [ATI TV Wonder 550] [1002:4d52] Subsystem: ATI
>> Technologies Inc Unknown device [1002:a346] Flags: bus master,
>> medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 5 Memory at bff00000 (32-bit,
>> non-prefetchable) [size=1M] Memory at de000000 (32-bit,
>> prefetchable) [size=32M] Capabilities: [50] Power Management
>> version 2
>> 
>> I read that I have to load the right modules for it and this is
>> what I've done 'till now
>> 
>> $ sudo modprobe bttv card=63 tuner=44 radio=1
>> 
>> and with no parameters also. Bttv loads properly but still won't
>> recognize the cards. Am I doing anything wrong or it's just my
>> card. I must say I can watch TV on Windows with this very same card
>> 
>> 
>> Thanks in advance Harol
> 
> Got to ask, if you are in the state, why are you fooling w/an NTSC
> tuner (unless you are connected to a subscription service - then
> pardon my dribble!).
> 
> Any ways - I just installed some ATI tuners as well - but, I checked
> (lspci) and they are not the same type.  You will find that ATI / AMD
> named almost all their tuners "ATI Wonder" making it very difficult
> to distinguish which is which (let alone which are well, partially
> and not supported here in linux land).
> 
> That said, have you googled to find like minded people w/the same
> problem?  So far, what I have found leads me to think you are at a
> dead end w/this particular ATI:
> 
> http://lists.linuxcoding.com/rhl/2008q1/msg04270.html
> 
> Further evidence that your card might not work can be found here
> (search for "ATI "):
> 
> http://www.mythtv.org/docs/mythtv-HOWTO-3.html
> 
> I say "might not work" as, again, ATI / AMD's crappy naming is
> confusing.  I think you have an "ATI Wonder" card and I have an "ATI
> All-in-Wonder" card.  But from our lspci's I can not be sure.  I'm
> basing the true name of your card from the ATI / AMD's web site:
> 
> http://ati.amd.com/products/tvwonder550/index.html
> 
> Ah, here's the coffin nail (search for your 550 card):
> 
> http://www.linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php/ATI/AMD#ATI_Graphic_cards_with_TV_Tuners_and.2For_Capture_facilities
> 
> 
> Regardless, if you are serious about using a tuner in linux (i.e.
> going to build a mythtv box) I would approach the problem the other
> way around.  First check for support then go out and buy a tuner.
> 
> In case you want to get what I have, this is one of the results from
> my lspci (I think I get 3 per ATI card).  I'm still putting together
> this mythtv box.  But the ATSC feature of this card appears to be
> working (in a Debian system):
> 
> 01:06.0 Multimedia video controller: Conexant Systems, Inc.
> CX23880/1/2/3 PCI Vi deo and Audio Decoder (rev 05) Subsystem: ATI
> Technologies Inc HDTV Wonder Flags: bus master, medium devsel,
> latency 64, IRQ 17 Memory at fa000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable)
> [size=16M] Capabilities: <access denied> Kernel driver in use: cx8800
>  Kernel modules: cx8800
> 
> 
> Let's begging by saying that I live in Cuba, so Digital TV is quite
> far, about my card as I say it's an ATI TV Wonder 550 PCI, reading
> CARDLIST.bttv in kernel Doc I found out it's supported by bttv driver
> so I thought it might be easy to configure, but the real problem is
> that even when then kernel sees the card it wont recognize it, anyone
> who has had this problem?
> 
> Harol
> 
> 
> 
> ¡Obtén la mejor experiencia en la web! Descarga gratis el nuevo
> Internet Explorer 8. http://downloads.yahoo.com/ieak8/?l=mx

Hi...

Sorry to hear you still have problems - but I've already emailed just 
about everything I know.  I have had problems with tuner cards as well. 
   I just removed a Kworld 120 from my mythtv box and will probably 
never try using it as a TV tuner again (I might use it to sample video - 
but I will not invest any more time into the TV tuner part of the 
card!).  I'll stick with my original suggestion: Get a well supported 
card - it will save you lots of time and hair pulling.

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