linuxtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: >Hi List, > >I got a Pinnacle 300i for my birthday last January. I've never got it working properly. In the past I've had it tune in to FreeView channels, but it's always lost lock after a few minutes at best. >I also got an old Nova-T which has worked perfectly for a few years now so I know my signal reception is good. > >I tried getting the 300i to work again last weekend using the 2.6.14 kernel and the lastest cvs dvb-kernel and v4l-kernel. Everything seemed to link and build nice and smoothly. >After a modprobe saa7134-dvb, dmesg shows: > >Linux video capture interface: v1.00 >saa7130/34: v4l2 driver version 0.2.14 loaded >PCI: Enabling device 0000:00:0b.0 (0004 -> 0006) >ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:0b.0[A] -> GSI 19 (level, low) -> IRQ 193 >saa7134[0]: found at 0000:00:0b.0, rev: 1, irq: 193, latency: 32, mmio: 0xe5000000 >saa7134[0]: subsystem: 11bd:002d, board: Pinnacle PCTV 300i DVB-T + PAL [card=50,autodetected] >saa7134[0]: board init: gpio is c806000 >saa7134[0]: i2c eeprom 00: bd 11 2d 00 f8 f8 1c 00 43 43 a9 1c 55 d2 b2 92 >saa7134[0]: i2c eeprom 10: 00 f0 04 04 ff 20 ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff >saa7134[0]: i2c eeprom 20: 01 40 01 02 03 ff 03 01 08 ff 00 25 ff ff ff ff >saa7134[0]: i2c eeprom 30: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff >saa7134[0]: i2c eeprom 40: ff 16 00 c0 86 3c 01 01 ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff >saa7134[0]: i2c eeprom 50: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff >saa7134[0]: i2c eeprom 60: 0c 22 17 44 03 08 ee 4d ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff >saa7134[0]: i2c eeprom 70: 00 30 8d 17 65 ce ff ff b4 38 ff ff ff ff ff ff >tuner 2-0060: Chip ID is not zero. It is not a TEA5767 >tuner 2-0060: chip found @ 0xc0 (saa7134[0]) >tuner 2-0060: microtune: companycode=0000 part=00 rev=00 >tuner 2-0060: microtune unknown found, not (yet?) supported, sorry :-/ >tda9887 2-0043: chip found @ 0x86 (saa7134[0]) >saa7134[0]: registered device video0 [v4l2] >saa7134[0]: registered device vbi0 >saa7134[0]: pinnacle 300i dvb setup >DVB: registering new adapter (saa7134[0]). >DVB: registering frontend 1 (Zarlink MT352 DVB-T)... > >and tzap can't lock onto any channel. > >I would greatly appreciate any help that you can give me to get this card working. > >Regards and Best Wishes, >Rob Watkins > > try to set all tuning parameters except frequency, modulation and pids to AUTO (e.g. FEC_AUTO). Strange as it sounds it works best for me (although with a totally different card) -- Email.it, the professional e-mail, gratis per te: http://www.email.it/f Sponsor: Proteggi al tua casa:con FULL CASA di RAS bastano anche solo 50 Cent. al * giorno. Fai subito il tuo preventivo online! Clicca qui: http://adv.email.it/cgi-bin/foclick.cgi?mid=4025&d=7-11
