Hi Damien,
I have made a bit of progress.
Since the PCI side of my card is working. I decided to produce my
channels.conf file.
I ran dvbscan -a1 /usr/share/dvb/scan/dvb-t/au-sydney_north_shore >
channels.conf. Copied hte channels.conf to .tzap/channels.conf
I then tried tuning the PCI part of the card which I knew would work.
mythbox ~ # tzap -a1 -r 'ABC TV Sydney'
using '/dev/dvb/adapter1/frontend0' and '/dev/dvb/adapter1/demux0'
reading channels from file '/root/.tzap/channels.conf'
tuning to 226500000 Hz
video pid 0x0200, audio pid 0x028a
status 00 | signal 8004 | snr 1414 | ber bfa47d64 | unc bfa53a68 |
status 1f | signal 8004 | snr e5e5 | ber bfa47d64 | unc bfa53a68 |
FE_HAS_LOCK
status 1f | signal 8004 | snr e2e2 | ber bfa47d64 | unc bfa53a68 | FE_HAS_LOCK
And it did. Out of curiousity I tried to tune the USB part of the card
as well.
mythbox ~ # tzap -a0 -r 'ABC TV Sydney'
using '/dev/dvb/adapter0/frontend0' and '/dev/dvb/adapter0/demux0'
reading channels from file '/root/.tzap/channels.conf'
tuning to 226500000 Hz
video pid 0x0200, audio pid 0x028a
status 01 | signal 8004 | snr 0000 | ber bff1aa34 | unc bff26738 |
status 1f | signal 8004 | snr f1f1 | ber bff1aa34 | unc bff26738 |
FE_HAS_LOCK
status 1f | signal 8004 | snr f0f0 | ber bff1aa34 | unc bff26738 | FE_HAS_LOCK
And weirdly it tunes and locks as well.
If I try to capture from the card by running # tzap -a0 -r 'ABC TV Sydney'
and in another window # cat /dev/dvb/adapter0/dvr0 > testvideo.mpg
This results in a 0 byte file.
Doing this on the PCI part of the card results a proper mpg file....
Just thought that you may try the same as long as the frontends are
comming up.
Mark
Quoting Mark <test@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
Damien,
I suggest you have a look at the Drivers section and make sure you
are compiling in the needed drivers for your hard drives ie the
IDE/SATA/SCSI drivers.
Otherwise you will need to create a initrd img.
Easiest to compile in the needed drivers. I've done this to myself before.
I've tried internal cable external cable even tried an add in PCI
card with USB ports.... No luck.
Can you tell me what version of dvb-apps comes with FC5?
Mark
Quoting Damien Dusha <damiendusha@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
Hi Mark,
No luck with 2.6.18-rc2... got a kernel panic Now, I'm in the wrong list...
Uncompressing Linux... Ok, booting the kernel
Kernel Panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on
unknown-block(0,0)
Steps taken:
1) download linux-2.6.17 and patch-2.6.18-rc2
2) Decompress, move the patch to the linux-2.6.17 directory
3) patch -p1 < patch-2.6.17-rc2
4) make menuconfig ... accepted all defaults
5) make
6) make modules_install
7) make install
Distro is FC5.
If I've missed something stupid, I'm happy to give it another go and have
another crack at the dvico card.
Should I send this info somewhere else? I'm quite happy just to wait for
the stable 2.6.18 to come out and try my card then...
Thanks for you help.
Damien.
-----Original Message-----
From: Mark [mailto:test@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Saturday, 29 July 2006 5:03 PM
To: Damien Dusha
Cc: linux-dvb@xxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: RE: Dvico Dual Digital Card... Problems getting
USBWorking
Damien,
I have upgraded to 2.6.18-rc2 kernel, both the USB and PCI initialize
proper.
Yes I have downloaded the bluebird firmware. See below.
The PCI part of the card came stright up with a 'modprobe cx88_dvb'
using 2.6.18-rc2 kernel. Picture/tuning works fine with kaffeine.
Any other version of the kernel/patches I tried all failed.
Can you gie me the details of your firmware files or any other steps
you did to get the USB to work. My firmware is as follows:
9025 Jan 10 2006 dvb-usb-bluebird-01.fw
I have even tried a second PCI USB card as I thought it might not like
the onboard ones.
Sorry I can't help to much with the PCI card. What frontend registers
when you load the PCI Drivers. One thing I ad was the drivers all
saying it loaded proper but not able to tune either the PCI or the USB.
This was with the sources from linuxtv.org?
What revision is your card? Its on the back of hte card? Mines 1.4.
Mark
mythbox dvb-usb: found a 'DViCO FusionHDTV DVB-T Dual USB' in cold
state, will try to load a firmware
mythbox dvb-usb: downloading firmware from file 'dvb-usb-bluebird-01.fw'
mythbox usbcore: registered new driver dvb_usb_cxusb
mythbox usb 1-2: USB disconnect, address 2
mythbox dvb-usb: generic DVB-USB module successfully deinitialized and
disconnected.
mythbox usb 1-2: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 3
mythbox usb 1-2: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
mythbox dvb-usb: found a 'DViCO FusionHDTV DVB-T Dual USB' in warm state.
mythbox dvb-usb: will pass the complete MPEG2 transport stream to the
software demuxer.
mythbox DVB: registering new adapter (DViCO FusionHDTV DVB-T Dual USB).
mythbox DVB: registering frontend 1 (Zarlink ZL10353 DVB-T)...
mythbox input: IR-receiver inside an USB DVB receiver as /class/input/input2
mythbox dvb-usb: schedule remote query interval to 150 msecs.
mythbox dvb-usb: DViCO FusionHDTV DVB-T Dual USB successfully
initialized and connected.
Quoting Damien Dusha <damiendusha@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
Hi Mark,
I am having the opposite problem - the PCI part is failing to tune.
To ask the stupid question, have you downloaded the firmware? There is a
script in:
/path/to/kernel/sources/Documentation/Drviers/dvb/get_dvb_firmware
bluebird
I can tune the USB part, but not the PCI part. And for that matter, even
though tzap returns a good SNR for the USB part, I still cant get a
picture,
which is really frustrating.
If you can get a picture, let me know hat you did.
I am having similar problems with FC5.
Cheers
Damien.
-----Original Message-----
From: linux-dvb-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:linux-dvb-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx]
On Behalf Of Mark
Sent: Saturday, 29 July 2006 12:11 PM
To: linux-dvb
Subject: Dvico Dual Digital Card... Problems getting USB
Working
Hi,
I've spent the last few days trying to get a Dvico Dual Digital Card
running on my Gentoo
linux box for MythTV.
The Card is a Rev 1.4 with the Zarlink ZL10353 Front end.
Things I have tried:
Gentoo Sources 2.6.16 Card was seen but no frontends attached.
Gentoo Sources 2.6.17 Card was seen but frontends attached but could
not scan channels on
either USB or PCI.
Vanilla Sources 2.6.18-rc2 Card seen frontends attached PCI Cards works
but USB card
always fails to Tune.
See the DMESG from 2.6.18-rc2 below.
I have tried the card in Windows and it works fine. I have also tried
the v4l Mercurial
sources as well under all of the above kernels. With Mercurial Sources
from July 22 the
Card is seen both tuners initialize but neither will tune a station.
Any pointers to getting the USB part of the card working would be
greatly appreciated.
Thanks in advance.
Mark
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