Re: Gigabyte GT-P8000 dvb-t / analog / fm radio - pci

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Hi,

Am Mittwoch, den 24.06.2009, 01:36 +1000 schrieb c kuruwita:
> Hi
> 
> You could try using the "card=" option when loading the kernel module
> and use the cardnumber of a similar supported saa7134 dvb card.
> you can find a complete list of supported card saa713 dvb cards in
> "Documentation/video4linux/CARDLIST.saa7134".
> 

that might become a very frustrating experience and it is also not
without some danger. At least you might get the card in a not further
responding state and you might need a cold boot in between.

Minimum further to know is the type of the digital demodulator these
days!

If it is for example a tda10048, there are currently only two cards to
test on for DVB-T, but likely with slightly different hardware
configuration.

You also need to know if it needs firmware and which one.

The saa7134 insmod option "i2c_scan=1" should be used to see if at least
all chips are visible. You might need special gpio switching else to get
them out of some power saving state.

You also don't know if you need gate control enabled of the tda8290
analog IF demod built into the saa7131e to initialize and further
program the tuner.

Tuner, digital demod and analog demod can be on four different i2c
addresses each. For dvb-t you need to know and set each of those
addresses correctly. It makes no sense to try on cards having this not
all the same.

The eeprom, if it is correct on this, says tuner at 0x60, analog demod
at 0x4b and digital demod at 0x08 in seven bit notation. The tuner at
0x60 is rather rare, if you look into saa7134-dvb.c. Makes no sense to
test on other cards.

Then we always want to have the antenna inputs reported. What shares
with what an input and what is on a separate one?
Only this way you can _eventually_ find a card with the same switching
there and also correct FM switch.

Next, most recent cards do have an additional RF LNA and there are
different types. All must be correctly set up for analog and digital
mode or you will have some unpleasant experiences. Seems there is no way
for us currently to know, if there is one at all or which type of
configuration it does need.

You must also know or find out, if the card uses serial or parallel TS
interface.

Even if you succeed with all the above, and that is possible by working
through step by step, especially with a tda10048 you might need a card
specific configuration not yet covered by other cards.

Blindly testing on cards without knowing on what you are testing
exactly, unlikely has good results on recent hybrid cards.

First of all you must know the type of digital demod on that card too.
The fuzzy picture I found seems to say it has only 48 pins ...

Always recommend to read further on the wiki about how to provide a good
report for new hardware.

Cheers,
Hermann

> 
> On Sat, May 23, 2009 at 6:42 AM, <jhmoodie@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Does anyone have any information on the support status of this card? Or
> > perhaps any hints I might try to get it working?
> >
> > I have built and installed the latest V4L-DVB kernel driver modules, but
> > no luck.
> >
> > I noticed windows installs Philips 3xhybrid drivers if this helps...
> >
> > Product website:
> > http://www.gigabyte.com.tw/Products/TVCard/Products_Spec.aspx?ClassValue=TV+Card&ProductID=2757&ProductName=GT-P8000
> >
> > Tuner NXP 18271
> > Decoder NXP 7131E
> >
> > lspci -vnn:
> > 00:09.0 Multimedia controller [0480]: Philips Semiconductors
> > SAA7131/SAA7133/SAA7135 Video Broadcast Decoder [1131:7133] (rev d1)
> >        Subsystem: Giga-byte Technology Device [1458:9004]
> >        Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 11
> >        Memory at e6000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=2K]
> >        Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 2
> >        Kernel driver in use: saa7134
> >        Kernel modules: saa7134
> >
> > dmesg output:
> > [ 3089.801191] saa7130/34: v4l2 driver version 0.2.15 loaded
> > [ 3089.801419] saa7133[0]: found at 0000:00:09.0, rev: 209, irq: 11,
> > latency: 32, mmio: 0xe6000000
> > [ 3089.801443] saa7133[0]: subsystem: 1458:9004, board: UNKNOWN/GENERIC
> > [card=0,autodetected]
> > [ 3089.801656] saa7133[0]: board init: gpio is 40000
> > [ 3089.952088] saa7133[0]: i2c eeprom 00: 58 14 04 90 54 20 1c 00 43 43
> > a9
> > 1c 55 d2 b2 92
> > [ 3089.952125] saa7133[0]: i2c eeprom 10: ff ff ff ff ff 20 ff ff ff ff
> > ff
> > ff ff ff ff ff
> > [ 3089.952153] saa7133[0]: i2c eeprom 20: 01 40 01 02 02 01 01 03 08 ff
> > 00
> > b3 ff ff ff ff
> > [ 3089.952180] saa7133[0]: i2c eeprom 30: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
> > ff
> > ff ff ff ff ff
> > [ 3089.952206] saa7133[0]: i2c eeprom 40: 50 35 00 c0 96 10 05 32 d5 15
> > 0e
> > 00 ff ff ff ff
> > [ 3089.952233] saa7133[0]: i2c eeprom 50: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
> > ff
> > ff ff ff ff ff
> > [ 3089.952260] saa7133[0]: i2c eeprom 60: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
> > ff
> > ff ff ff ff ff
> > [ 3089.952287] saa7133[0]: i2c eeprom 70: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
> > ff
> > ff ff ff ff ff
> > [ 3089.952314] saa7133[0]: i2c eeprom 80: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
> > ff
> > ff ff ff ff ff
> > [ 3089.952340] saa7133[0]: i2c eeprom 90: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
> > ff
> > ff ff ff ff ff
> > [ 3089.952367] saa7133[0]: i2c eeprom a0: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
> > ff
> > ff ff ff ff ff
> > [ 3089.952394] saa7133[0]: i2c eeprom b0: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
> > ff
> > ff ff ff ff ff
> > [ 3089.952421] saa7133[0]: i2c eeprom c0: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
> > ff
> > ff ff ff ff ff
> > [ 3089.952447] saa7133[0]: i2c eeprom d0: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
> > ff
> > ff ff ff ff ff
> > [ 3089.952474] saa7133[0]: i2c eeprom e0: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
> > ff
> > ff ff ff ff ff
> > [ 3089.952501] saa7133[0]: i2c eeprom f0: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
> > ff
> > ff ff ff ff ff
> > [ 3089.953430] saa7133[0]: registered device video0 [v4l2]
> > [ 3089.953507] saa7133[0]: registered device vbi0
> > [ 3090.023006] saa7134 ALSA driver for DMA sound loaded
> > [ 3090.023158] saa7133[0]/alsa: saa7133[0] at 0xe6000000 irq 11
> > registered
> > as card -2
> >



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