Re: Lifeview Hybric PCI problems mainly with dvb-t

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Hi,

scoop_yo@xxxxxxxxxxx schrieb:
> hi,
>    Yesterday I bought Lifeview Hybrid PCI(Analog TV, DVB-T and radio FM).
> The problem with this card is that I cannot tune to dvb-t channels.
> I run 2.6.20.3 and used latest mercurial snapshot for v4l.
> 
> $lspci -vvv :
> 
> 05:07.0 Multimedia controller: Philips Semiconductors SAA7133/SAA7135 Video Broadcast Decoder (rev d1)
> Subsystem: Animation Technologies Inc. Unknown device 3306
> Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B-
> Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
> Latency: 32 (21000ns min, 8000ns max)
> Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 20
> Region 0: Memory at d0005000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=2K]
> Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 2
> Flags: PMEClk- DSI- D1+ D2+ AuxCurrent=0mA PME(D0-,D1-,D2-,D3hot-,D3cold-)
> Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=1 PME-
> 
> dmesg output:
>  The module seems to find the firmware somewhere but it isn't anywhere
>  in my system as a single file (dvb-fe-tda10046.fw).
> 
>  Later I pulled the firmware using the get_dvb_firmware perl script but that 
>  didn't make dvb-t to work so I deleted it.
>  I tried both tda10046lifeview and tda10046 firmwares.
>  I don't run hotplug though..
> 

This is normal. The card has the firmware on an eeprom and without special tricks,
the chip will always load the firmware from there.

> 
> Linux video capture interface: v2.00
> saa7130/34: v4l2 driver version 0.2.14 loaded
> ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [APC2] enabled at IRQ 17
> ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:05:07.0[A] -> Link [APC2] -> GSI 17 (level, low) -> IRQ 20
> saa7133[0]: found at 0000:05:07.0, rev: 209, irq: 20, latency: 32, mmio: 0xd0005000
> saa7133[0]: subsystem: 5168:3306, board: LifeView FlyDVB-T Hybrid Cardbus [card=94,autodetected]
> saa7133[0]: board init: gpio is 210000
> PM: Adding info for No Bus:i2c-2
> PM: Adding info for No Bus:i2c-2
> saa7133[0]: i2c eeprom 00: 68 51 06 33 54 20 1c 00 43 43 a9 1c 55 d2 b2 92
> saa7133[0]: i2c eeprom 10: 00 00 62 08 ff 20 ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
> saa7133[0]: i2c eeprom 20: 01 40 01 03 03 01 01 03 08 ff 01 16 ff ff ff ff
> saa7133[0]: i2c eeprom 30: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
> saa7133[0]: i2c eeprom 40: ff 21 00 c2 96 10 05 01 01 16 32 15 ff ff ff ff
> saa7133[0]: i2c eeprom 50: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
> saa7133[0]: i2c eeprom 60: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
> saa7133[0]: i2c eeprom 70: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
> tuner 2-004b: chip found @ 0x96 (saa7133[0])
> PM: Adding info for i2c:2-004b
> tuner 2-004b: setting tuner address to 61
> tuner 2-004b: type set to tda8290+75a
> tuner 2-004b: setting tuner address to 61
> tuner 2-004b: type set to tda8290+75a
> saa7133[0]: registered device video0 [v4l2]
> saa7133[0]: registered device vbi0
> saa7133[0]: registered device radio0
> ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [APC3] enabled at IRQ 18
> ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:01:00.0[A] -> Link [APC3] -> GSI 18 (level, low) -> IRQ 21
> PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:01:00.0 to 64
> ...
> DVB: registering new adapter (saa7133[0]).
> DVB: registering frontend 0 (Philips TDA10046H DVB-T)...
> tda1004x: setting up plls for 48MHz sampling clock
> tda1004x: found firmware revision 29 -- ok
> ...
> 
This looks perfect.
If there are no further messages like i.e. "could not access xxx". the
driver is working.

> $lsmod:
> (Everything is detected from udev I guess, except for the sound)
> 
> tda827x                 6152  1
> saa7134_dvb            16024  0
> dvb_pll                11528  1 saa7134_dvb
> video_buf_dvb           4488  1 saa7134_dvb
> dvb_core               72396  1 video_buf_dvb
> tda1004x               14984  2 saa7134_dvb
> tuner                  64760  0
> saa7134               120012  1 saa7134_dvb
> video_buf              19720  3 saa7134_dvb,video_buf_dvb,saa7134
> compat_ioctl32          1024  1 saa7134
> ir_kbd_i2c              6808  1 saa7134
> ir_common              29708  2 saa7134,ir_kbd_i2c
> videodev               26368  1 saa7134
> v4l2_common            15232  3 tuner,saa7134,videodev
> i2c_nforce2             4672  0
> v4l1_compat            12552  2 saa7134,videodev
> 
> 
> #modprobe saa7134-alsa (dmesg output):
> 
> saa7134 ALSA driver for DMA sound loaded
> saa7133[0]/alsa: saa7133[0] at 0xd0005000 irq 20 registered as card -1
> PM: Adding info for No Bus:card1
> PM: Adding info for No Bus:pcmC1D0c
> PM: Adding info for No Bus:dsp1
> PM: Adding info for No Bus:audio1
> PM: Adding info for No Bus:controlC1
> PM: Adding info for No Bus:mixer1
> 
> I can watch analog tv with no sound.I did some tests with sox
> with both saa7137-alsa and saa7137-oss but no luck here.
> I haven't tried the radio yet.
> I see nothing for the remote at /proc/bus/input/devices.
> But the feature that I desperately want to use is dvb-t because I kinda
> bought it more for it to do some recording of next week's shows starting
> on Sunday :) .
>
Hm. i guess you mean saa7134-alsa. This is known to work in many cases.
Are you sure you unes the right parameters for sox resp. arecord ?

> Using scan with latest (mercurial snapshot) dvb-apps I get the following:
> Settings of gr-Athens file are correct.
> (Didn't have any luck with kaffeine either.)
> 
> $./scan ./gr-Athens
> scanning ./gr-Athens
> using '/dev/dvb/adapter0/frontend0' and '/dev/dvb/adapter0/demux0'
> initial transponder 690000000 0 3 9 1 1 1 0
>>>> tune to: 690000000:INVERSION_AUTO:BANDWIDTH_8_MHZ:FEC_3_4:FEC_AUTO:QAM_16:TRANSMISSION_MODE_8K:GUARD_INTERVAL_1_16:HIERARCHY_NONE
> WARNING: >>> tuning failed!!!
>>>> tune to: 690000000:INVERSION_AUTO:BANDWIDTH_8_MHZ:FEC_3_4:FEC_AUTO:QAM_16:TRANSMISSION_MODE_8K:GUARD_INTERVAL_1_16:HIERARCHY_NONE (tuning failed)
> WARNING: >>> tuning failed!!!
> ERROR: initial tuning failed
> dumping lists (0 services)
> Done.
> 
> (After the scan dvbsnoop reports that inversion is off.)
> I assumed it was a singal strength problem so I installed Windows and
> the card worked ok with dvb-t.
> On the card there is a SAA1733 chip but on the wiki I didn't find any other card
> with that chip so that I cound try parsing it as a parameter and check dvb-t usage.
> 
> Any ideas primarely on how to get dvb-t to work ?
> 
> 
> PS:If it is to look at the driver code, should I be looking at
> TDA10046 , SAA1734 or both ?
> 
Unfortunately, the "tuning failed" message can have many causes.
The most common one it that the channel decoder simply didn't lock due
to wrong tuning parameters. Are you sure your initial config file is right?
Even a wrong value for i.e the guard interval prevents the decoder from locking.
Some drivers ignore these values so you can't be sure from the fact that another
card works. You might try w_scan.
If this doesn't help. please examine the kernel log again.

Hartmut

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