Please write to Avermedia <sales@xxxxxxxxxxx> asking for more generic kernel support. Apparently they aren't able to release open-source drivers due to licensing problems with one of their chip manufacturers. Linux support clearly isn't a priority (otherwise we'd have seen many more drivers, a lot sooner after the card was released) but the fact that Aver is even acknowledging our existence is encouraging. I've just fired off an email saying I understand their situation, and suggesting that they use a system similar to nvidia's, with an open-source "glue layer" in between the binary driver and the kernel. This layer would act as an easily modifiable intermediary between the driver and the constantly changing kernel. An idea like that is all very well, but a company will be much more willing to spend the resources setting it up if it sees lots of revenue being made back from it. So if all you people out there think that AverMedia's products should have more generic Linux support, let them know about it - and with any luck, sooner or later they will! Cheers, Tom :) On 24/04/06, linux-dvb-request@xxxxxxxxxxx <linux-dvb-request@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > From: Martin Piayda <martin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > To: linux-dvb@xxxxxxxxxxx > Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2006 10:38:01 +0200 > Subject: [linux-dvb] AverMedia AVerTv Hybrid +FM CardBus drivers > Hi, > > I own the Avermedia AVerTV Hybrid +FM CardBus, which is based on a > Philips SAA7134 as far as I know. > I'm currently using a 2.6.15 Kernel and noticed the dvb-t part of the > card is not recognized. > Dmesg says the card is UNKNOWN/GENERIC (see below). The card uses mt352 > as its frontend, because I saw that AverMedia actually provides > linux-drivers (module saa713x and mt352) which are unfortunately > outdated (Kernels 2.6.11 and 2.6.13). > > Now I tried several card-types by reloading the saa7134-driver with > card=1.. card=2.. etc and several tuner-types with no success. > > lspci -v: > 0000:03:00.0 Multimedia controller: Philips Semiconductors SAA7133 Video > Broadcast Decoder (rev d1) > Subsystem: Avermedia Technologies Inc: Unknown device f436 > Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 11 > Memory at f6000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=2K] > Capabilities: <available only to root> > > Loading saa7134 by modprobe saa7134 card=46 registers the card as > > [4295549.397000] saa7133[0]: subsystem: 1461:f436, board: AVerMedia > Cardbus TV/Radio (E500) [card=46,insmod option] > > and the status LED of the card lights on. > > Which information is required for further process? Providing physical > information for a CardBus card is certainly difficult, so what can I do, > offer, provide? > > Regards, > Martin > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Dmesg output: > [4295249.911000] saa7133[0]: subsystem: 1461:f436, board: > UNKNOWN/GENERIC [card=0,autodetected] > [4295249.911000] saa7133[0]: board init: gpio is 220000 > [4295250.031000] saa7133[0]: i2c eeprom 00: 61 14 36 f4 00 00 00 00 00 > 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 > [4295250.031000] saa7133[0]: i2c eeprom 10: 00 ff e2 0e ff 20 ff ff ff > ff ff ff ff ff ff ff > [4295250.031000] saa7133[0]: i2c eeprom 20: 01 40 01 02 02 01 01 03 08 > ff 00 ff ff ff ff ff > [4295250.032000] saa7133[0]: i2c eeprom 30: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff > ff ff ff ff ff ff ff > [4295250.032000] saa7133[0]: i2c eeprom 40: ff 65 00 ff c2 1e ff ff ff > ff ff ff ff ff ff ff > [4295250.033000] saa7133[0]: i2c eeprom 50: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff > ff ff ff ff ff ff ff > [4295250.033000] saa7133[0]: i2c eeprom 60: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff > ff ff ff ff ff ff ff > [4295250.033000] saa7133[0]: i2c eeprom 70: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff > ff ff ff ff ff ff ff > [4295250.033000] saa7133[0]: registered device video0 [v4l2] > [4295250.033000] saa7133[0]: registered device vbi0 > [4295250.097000] saa7134 ALSA driver for DMA sound loaded > [4295250.098000] saa7133[0]/alsa: saa7133[0] at 0xf6000000 irq 11 > registered as card -1
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