[linux-dvb] Support for Technotrend DVB-C 1500

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Cool.

Just in the process of upgrading FC4 with the 2.6.13 kernel to work with the
latest CVS tree, so I'll let you (all) know how it goes.

James.

On 10/25/05, Simo Kivim?ki <simo.j.kivimaki@xxxxxx> wrote:
>
> James Fisher wrote:
> > I've just got hold of one of these as a replacement for my previous
> > DVB-C card which is no longer available.
> >
> > Are the drivers for this board checked into CVS?
>
> There is driver for TT DVB-C 1500 but it has problmes with QAM128
> signal. I have tried to increase timeouts and still tuning gets locked
> only occasionally with my card. The kernel modules are budget-ci and
> stv0297. I don't have access to non-QAM128 signals so I don't know how
> they work.
>
> It would be nice to get that card working so what is the situation with
> the driver development?
>
> I recently made some testing with stv0297_cs2 driver and used it with my
> DVB-C 1500 card. With some changes it compiled as the driver for DVB-C
> 1500 card and the budget-ci registers the frontend correctly.
>
> But it does not work. Of course that's not a surprise because the driver
> is not made for the card.
>
> Here's dmesg debug messages for the cs2 driver used with TT:
> spectrum inversion: off
> symbolrate: 6900000, regval: 0000000000000000
> initialized - waiting for the locks now
> waiting for WBAGC lock
> WBAGC has lock
> waiting for equalizer 1 lock
> timed out
>
> And that repeats.
>
> Changes that I made to get it 'work':
> - Change the name to stv0297 (files and api functions)
> - Added 'u8 invert:1' and 'u8* inittab' to struct stv0297_config in
> header file.
> - In function stv0297_readregsI changed the i2c_transfer to be done in
> to parts.
>
> I'm not familiar with the kernel drivers nor stv0297 so I have no idea
> for further modifications. I hope that some developer could try to solve
> this problem in some way or give advice for me to debug it.
>
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