Hi, Andy
I spent some effort on this card together with Patrick Froede. The card is modeled
after the Philips TOUGH reference design but uses a different tuner slave address.
That's why it doesn't work. I will add support for this card the next days.
Best regards
Hartmut
Andy wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I've been trying to get my new Compro VideoMate DVB-T200 working with MythTV for days now and have had no luck (at the pulling-hair-out stage now!). I'm hoping someone on this list could point out where
> I'm going wrong!
>
> The card is based on the Phillips SAA7134 chip. Inside the tin can I can see a TMA10046A. I'm running 64-bit FC4 on an Athlon64, with kernel 2.6.12-1.1447_FC4.
>
> After physically installing the card, FC4 seemed to automagically detect it as the saa7134 module is now loaded at boot time. Inspection of /var/log/messages showed the card was being detected as type
> 0 "Unknown/Generic", so I edited /etc/modprobe.conf to set the type as 19 - "Compro VideoMate TV". Rebooting and checking /var/log/messages showed the saa7134 module was now seeing it as the correct
> card.
>
> Now that driver only installed the v4l devices in dev, and I quickly realised I needed to load saa7134-dvb manually. I did this, and it installed a few other modules along with it. The modules load, there are no
> errors, however there is no mention of them loading in /var/log/messages. Also, the dvb devices are not created in /dev. I've checked that udev is configured correctly to create the dvb devices when an
> appropiate module is loaded.
>
> During my googling I came across an article (can't find it again now!) which showed a couple of lines added to /var/log/messages after loading saa7134-dvb. This isn't happening to me, so I'm guessing the
> module isn't loading correctly somehow, hence why the dvb devices are not created in /dev.
>
> I also came across a few articals talking about firmware for the card... I've followed these instructions and now have "dvb-fe-tda10046.fw" in /lib/firmware. However there is no mention of uploading the
> firmware in /var/log/messages when loading either saa7134 or saa7134-dvb.
>
> Further searching resulted in mentions of having to patch the Kconfig file for saa7134-dvb.ko in order to load tma1004x.ko. I have done this and recompiled the module, however using this new module makes
> no difference to the situation.
>
> So I've tried everything I can think of, and am at my witts end! :)
>
> The output of lsmod after manually loading saa7134-dvb is below. I've alos included the relevant part of /var/log/messages produced when saa7134 is loaded.
>
> A few things I'm unsure about:
> * Is my 'tuner' module option set correctly (see messages below)? I'm in the UK, so would exped a PAL tuner to be used...
> * Is my 'card' module option set correctly? It sounds like my card, though could there be a slight difference between cards which is causing the problem?
>
> Any help would be really really apreciated!
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
>
> Andy
>
>
> -- LSMOD --
>
> # lsmod
> Module Size Used by
> saa7134_dvb 7044 0
> mt352 8517 1 saa7134_dvb
> video_buf_dvb 8517 1 saa7134_dvb
> dvb_core 106365 1 video_buf_dvb
> tda1004x 16197 1 saa7134_dvb
> parport_pc 33965 1
> lp 16961 0
> parport 49613 2 parport_pc,lp
> autofs4 34121 2
> w83627hf 37737 0
> eeprom 9553 0
> i2c_sensor 4289 2 w83627hf,eeprom
> i2c_isa 3265 0
> md5 5313 1
> ipv6 307681 24
> video 19913 0
> button 5313 0
> battery 11721 0
> ac 6345 0
> ohci1394 44321 0
> ieee1394 380793 1 ohci1394
> uhci_hcd 40417 0
> ehci_hcd 44621 0
> tuner 32497 0
> saa7134 129045 1 saa7134_dvb
> video_buf 29125 3 saa7134_dvb,video_buf_dvb,saa7134
> v4l2_common 8257 1 saa7134
> v4l1_compat 14021 1 saa7134
> ir_common 9157 1 saa7134
> videodev 12993 1 saa7134
> shpchp 101865 0
> i2c_viapro 10073 0
> i2c_core 26817 9 mt352,tda1004x,w83627hf,eeprom,i2c_sensor,i2c_isa,tuner,saa7134,i2c_viapro
> snd_via82xx 32032 0
> gameport 21833 1 snd_via82xx
> snd_ac97_codec 97220 1 snd_via82xx
> snd_seq_dummy 4100 0
> snd_seq_oss 43876 0
> snd_seq_midi_event 9856 1 snd_seq_oss
> snd_seq 74200 5 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi_event
> snd_pcm_oss 58784 0
> snd_mixer_oss 18816 1 snd_pcm_oss
> snd_pcm 113676 3 snd_via82xx,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss
> snd_timer 35208 2 snd_seq,snd_pcm
> snd_page_alloc 9992 2 snd_via82xx,snd_pcm
> snd_mpu401_uart 11008 1 snd_via82xx
> snd_rawmidi 33440 1 snd_mpu401_uart
> snd_seq_device 10128 4 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq,snd_rawmidi
> snd 65184 12 snd_via82xx,snd_ac97_codec,snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,snd_timer,snd_mpu401_uart,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq_device
> soundcore 13537 2 saa7134,snd
> sk98lin 187689 0
> tulip 61793 0
> floppy 77009 0
> dm_snapshot 17961 2
> dm_zero 2753 0
> dm_mirror 27361 0
> ext3 148177 7
> jbd 92657 1 ext3
> raid5 30017 1
> xor 6737 1 raid5
> raid1 23489 1
> dm_mod 67009 12 dm_snapshot,dm_zero,dm_mirror
> sata_promise 13253 6
> sata_via 9925 6
> libata 53833 2 sata_promise,sata_via
> sd_mod 22337 16
> scsi_mod 174105 3 sata_promise,libata,sd_mod
>
>
> -- MESSAGES --
>
> Sep 11 12:01:48 alpha kernel: Linux video capture interface: v1.00
> Sep 11 12:01:48 alpha kernel: saa7130/34: v4l2 driver version 0.2.12 loaded
> Sep 11 12:01:48 alpha kernel: ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:09.0[A] -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 209
> Sep 11 12:01:48 alpha kernel: saa7130[0]: found at 0000:00:09.0, rev: 1, irq: 209, latency: 64, mmio: 0xf7a00000
> Sep 11 12:01:48 alpha kernel: saa7130[0]: subsystem: 185b:c901, board: Compro VideoMate TV [card=19,insmod option]
> Sep 11 12:01:48 alpha kernel: saa7130[0]: board init: gpio is 843f00
> Sep 11 12:01:48 alpha kernel: saa7130[0]: i2c eeprom 00: 5b 18 01 c9 54 20 1c 00 43 43 a9 1c 55 d2 b2 92
> Sep 11 12:01:48 alpha kernel: saa7130[0]: i2c eeprom 10: 00 ff 86 0f ff 20 ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
> Sep 11 12:01:48 alpha kernel: saa7130[0]: i2c eeprom 20: 01 40 01 03 03 ff 03 01 08 ff 00 88 ff ff ff ff
> Sep 11 12:01:48 alpha kernel: saa7130[0]: i2c eeprom 30: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
> Sep 11 12:01:48 alpha kernel: tuner 1-0068: chip found @ 0xd0 (saa7130[0])
> Sep 11 12:01:48 alpha kernel: tuner 1-0068: type set to 17 (Philips NTSC_M (MK2))
> Sep 11 12:01:48 alpha kernel: saa7130[0]: registered device video0 [v4l2]
> Sep 11 12:01:48 alpha kernel: saa7130[0]: registered device vbi0
>
>
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