On Mittwoch, 13. Februar 2008, Eduard Huguet wrote:
> En/na Matthias Schwarzott ha escrit:
> > On Sonntag, 10. Februar 2008, Eduard Huguet wrote:
> >> En/na Matthias Schwarzott ha escrit:
> >>> On Samstag, 9. Februar 2008, Eduard Huguet wrote:
> >>>> Hi, Matthias
> >>>
> >>> Hi Eduard!
> >>>
> >>>> I've been performing some tests using your patch for this card.
> >>>> Right now neither dvbscan nor kaffeine are able to find any channel on
> >>>> Astra (the sat. my dish points to).
> >>>>
> >>>> However, Kaffeine has been giving me some interesting results: with
> >>>> your driver "as is" it's getting me a 13-14% signal level and ~52% SNR
> >>>> when scanning. Then, thinking that the problem is related to the low
> >>>> signal I have I've changed the gain levels used to program the tuner:
> >>>> you were using default values of 0 for all (in
> >>>> zl1003x_set_gain_params() function, variables "rfg", "ba" and "bg"),
> >>>> and I've changed them top the maximum (according to the documentation:
> >>>> rfg=1, ba=bg=3). With that, I'm getting a 18% signal level, which is
> >>>> higher but still too low apparently to get a lock.
> >>>>
> >>>> I've stopped here, because I really don't have the necessary
> >>>> background to keep tweaking the driver. I just wanted to share it with
> >>>> you, as maybe you have some idea on how to continue or what else could
> >>>> be done.
> >>>
> >>> So I can do only this guess:
> >>> I changed demod driver to invert the Polarization voltage for a700
> >>> card. This is controlled by member-variable voltage_inverted.
> >>>
> >>> static struct mt312_config avertv_a700_mt312 = {
> >>> .demod_address = 0x0e,
> >>> .voltage_inverted = 1,
> >>> };
> >>>
> >>> Can you try to comment the voltage_inverted line here (saa7134-dvb.c:
> >>> line 865).
> >>>
> >>> BUT: If this helps we need to find out how to detect which card needs
> >>> this enabled/disabled.
> >>>
> >>> Regards
> >>> Matthias
> >>
> >> Hi,
> >> Nothing :(. Removing (or setting it to 0) the voltage_inverted member
> >> doesn't seem to make any difference. I'm starting to suspect that there
> >> is something wrong with my antennae setup, so I'll test it later using
> >> an standalone STB or by plugging the card into a Windows computer and
> >> using the supplied drivers.
> >
> > Even better: Tune to a channel and measure the voltage the card outputs
> > on LNB connector.
> >
> > Regards
> > Matthias
>
> Oops :D. Could you please elaborate a bit on this? I don't know what is
> the LNB connector you are referring to. Plus, I don't have right now any
> voltimeter, but if needed I'll grab one from work tomorrow.
>
So, as I started playing with my A700 card, I discovered that the
input-connector on the card, where one attaches the coax-cable to the
lnb/dish, sent out wrong voltage.
13V / 18V was swapped. So I patched mt312 driver and added the setting
voltage_inverted to reverse it.
Instead of just guessing what happens it is interesting to just call the
dvb-apps example app set_voltage and measure what voltage the hw outputs.
Regards
Matthias
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Matthias Schwarzott (zzam)
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