iTunes SPECTRA 8 User Manual
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Ituner Networks Corp. Spectra 8
NOTE: Always get the latest driver form the address listed below. Constant driver updates are
being published making our driver distribution obsolete by the time the driver CD gets to you!
Spectra8 uses the bttv driver availabl
card is already integrated in
bttv driver with a version higher then 0.9.10 and should be correctly autodetected as type 98
For 2.6.x kernels, always use the latest 0.9.x bttv drivers.
To load the module type :
modprobe bttv
This will load bttv with the default settings. In order to check if the driver loaded up and
recognized the card, do a lsmod and you should see:
bttv 77760 0 (unused)
video-buf 9200 0 [bttv]
or do a dmesg and check for the lines that contain bttv.
You can alter the default setting by adding them to your /etc/modules.conf or directly on the
command line.
*Note: if you plan to use Fedora Core 4, update the kernel on it using yum to the latest version in
order to get the bttv drivers to load with the Spectra8 card.
For 2.4.x kernels you can use our already patched kernel and driver sources available at:
ftp://update:[email protected]/sources/kernel/
(choose the latest version)
ftp://update:[email protected]/sources/bttv/bttv-0.9.13-imedia.tgz
Our kernel is patched to include video4linux version 2. You can also use the latest version of bttv
driver from
Also you can manually patch your preferred 2.4.x kernel by following the steps below.
- use the latest kernel and patch him with the latest version of 0.9.x bttv drivers. Also, patch the
kernel with the videodev patch corresponding to your kernel version.
Download bttv-0.9.x from
Download kernel patch for 2.4.x kernel fr
Usually you n
where x is your
kernel version like in ‘uname –r’.
You might need to download some other small patches from that dir. Please check the page for
more details.
Patch your kernel with videodev patch by doing:
cd /usr/src/linux (or where your kernel sources are)
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