Manu Abraham wrote: > Luc Brosens wrote: >> Manu Abraham wrote: >>> Luc Brosens wrote: >>> >>>> Manu, >>>> >>>> your guess is correct, under W2K no tuning problems. The scrambled channels tune in an instance, now and then there are some artifacts though. But >>>> tuning works ! >>>> >>>> so my hardware setup works, now how to find that 'tenderness' in the driver ? You think that the tuning-part of the drivers (that would be the >>>> STV0299-stuff wouldn't it ?) >>> It can be the STV0299 + the tuner on it. What tuner do you have on the card ? Maybe >>> it is bad tuner programming, before looking elsewhere. Tuners wrongly programmed >>> cause such weird issues, one can say. >>> >>>> if somebody can set me off in the right direction, I'll get it solved >>>> >>>> the Windows TV-viewer that came with the cards reports a signal of 95%, even for scrambled channels : another indication that tuning could be done a >>>> bit better ? >>>> >>>> Luc >>>> >>> Manu >>> >> Manu, >> >> it's a KNCOne TV-Station DVB-S >> on it, I can see a STV02998 and a SAA7146AH >> the tuner chip is obscured by a cover plate >> I've prepared a little page with some pictures and the dmesg, lsmod and lspci info : >> >> http://www.bsc-bvba.be/persoonlijk/kncone.html >> >> even though I bought it as a TV-Station, and that's what it says on the box, it is taken to be a TV-Star >> if I change the PCI-id-table in budget_av.c and make it a TV-Station (SUBID_DVBS_KNC1), I get "timeout waiting for end of xfer" from the SAA >> > > You are trying the latest changes in the tree, ie the topmost changes, > IIRC Oliver had some fixes which fixed some IRQ issues. > >> the budget-av coding for the TV-Star seems to suggest the tuner is a SD1878, which is confirmed by the label on the cover plate (you can read it on >> the pictures of the front of the card) >> >> I'll go and read the SD1878 coding ... > > try this change: > > in dvb-pll.c: http://linuxtv.org/hg/v4l-dvb/file/85f583ec85d6/linux/drivers/media/dvb/frontends/dvb-pll.c > > The following lines: > > 473 { 1250000, 500, 0xc4, 0x00}, > 474 { 1550000, 500, 0xc4, 0x40}, > 475 { 2050000, 500, 0xc4, 0x80}, > 476 { 2150000, 500, 0xc4, 0xc0}, > > > change this to make it look like this: > > { 1250000, 500, 0xc4, 0xc0}, > { 1450000, 500, 0xc4, 0xc0}, > { 2050000, 500, 0xc4, 0xc0}, > { 2150000, 500, 0xc4, 0xc0}, > > This is bad but, check whether you see any difference. > > Manu > Manu, there's a definite improvement in tuning : almost all tuning attempts succeed now, scrambled and all and it's a rainy evening, which reduces reception a bit now to re-install mplayer/MythTV to check out the picture thanks ! Luc _______________________________________________ linux-dvb mailing list linux-dvb@xxxxxxxxxxx http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linux-dvb
