Warning: I'm a newbie with these v4l drivers, and don't claim to be an expert. Rob & Kate wrote: > The following site has managed to get this card working with the > experimental code > http://plone.lucidsolutions.co.nz/dvb/t/compiling-mcentral-experimental-v4l-dvb-drivers Although I got the mcentral.de drivers loaded and running [3], I haven't managed to get the main v4l drivers working with this card yet (linuxtv.org)[2]. I would be interested in assisting anyone to get this done. I'm using four M103-C modules [1] in a routerboard card [5] to provide a quad tuner card [4]. Looking through the code, it might not involve much more than adding the PCI ids and the required chipset/tuner to the right table. > Can you please offer some advice, a couple of things that I think may be > the problem are > > o Do I need to remove the card before I install the experimental code? > until now I haven’t because its under the fan, but will if needs must. I wouldn't have thought so. Once I put the card into the computer I haven't had to remove it. I would unload the existing v4l modules with your kernel. If the v4l drivers are build into your kernel (not modules), then you will need to build a new kernel. > o Do I need to disable the installed V4L modules in the kernel, and then > re-compile the kernel? This seems very scary, but someone on the gentoo > pages did it this way, so I’ll give it ago if necessary I left the stock kernel v4l modules in place, but put the new modules earlier in the depmod path. As documented in a few places, use all 4vl modules from the same place/version (half from your distro and half from the experimental hg doesn't work). > o How do I get the xc3028 to work, there seems to be 3 different > approaches, either download the windows firmware and convert, download > the picnnicale firmware > (http://mcentral.de/firmware/firmware_pinnacle.tgz), or download the > xc3028 firmware (http://mcentral.de/firmware/firmware_v5.tgz) . As noted on the page, I found the firmware_v5.tgz firmware worked. When I tried the v4l driver [1], I used other firmware (but I didn't get it working). I'm using this card for DVB-T only (I'm ignoring the analog support). The card happily scans, and picks up current & next EIT program data. I haven't got the rest of the system displaying the h.264 stream yet. Greg. -- [1] http://plone.lucidsolutions.co.nz/dvb/t/avermedia-m-103c-0405ab34-mini-pci-hybrid-tuner [2] http://plone.lucidsolutions.co.nz/dvb/t/compiling-v4l-dvb-drivers-for-saa7134-and-xc2028 [3] http://plone.lucidsolutions.co.nz/dvb/t/compiling-mcentral-experimental-v4l-dvb-drivers [4] http://plone.lucidsolutions.co.nz/dvb/t/dvb-t-pci-quad-tuner [5] http://plone.lucidsolutions.co.nz/wireless/routerboard-14-pci-to-quad-mini-pci-adapter _______________________________________________ linux-dvb mailing list linux-dvb@xxxxxxxxxxx http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linux-dvb
