Hi Martin,
Am Montag, den 27.07.2009, 21:36 +0200 schrieb Martin Konopka:
> Hi Hermann,
>
> I'm using kernel 2.6.28-11 on a mythbuntu distribution. I tried to load the
> drivers with the card=50 option and antenna_pwr=1.
>
> [ 8745.007384] saa7133[0]: subsystem: 11bd:002f, board: Pinnacle PCTV 300i
> DVB-T + PAL [card=50,insmod option]
> [ 8745.007628] saa7133[0]: board init: gpio is 600c000
> [ 8745.007641] saa7133[0]: gpio: mode=0x0008000 in=0x6004000 out=0x0008000
> [pre-init]
> [ 8745.148374] tuner' 1-004b: chip found @ 0x96 (saa7133[0])
>
> [..]
>
> [ 8802.196576] dvb_init() allocating 1 frontend
> [ 8802.196583] saa7133[0]/dvb: pinnacle 300i dvb setup
> [ 8802.196845] mt352_read_register: readreg error (reg=127, ret==-5)
> [ 8802.196953] saa7133[0]/dvb: frontend initialization failed
>
> The antenna power is not activated. I then installed microsoft stuff. To my
> horror it turned out that the active antenna switch is greyed out in
> Pinnacle's TV application.
>
> So the card obviously does not have an active antenna, although the manual
> mentions it. Probably copy and paste from the 300i manual.
>
> Regards,
>
> Martin
thanks a lot for reporting and for going to all that testing stuff.
Since neither Hartmut nor me ever had such a card, Hartmut would be much
better than me on such, we should be able to exclude active voltage to
support the antenna on it now.
For the other issues since 2.6.26 I don't have new ideas and such cards
seem not to be available on some e/xbay currently.
The Hauppauge/Pinnacle US guys can't help much either currently and
there is no reason to blame them for something they don't know. (yet)
So it is only what is posted so far.
Thanks,
Hermann
>
> Am Sonntag, 5. Juli 2009 02:18:01 schrieben Sie:
> > Hi Martin,
> >
> > Am Mittwoch, den 01.07.2009, 17:01 +0200 schrieb Martin Konopka:
> > > Hi all,
> > >
> > > my Pinnacle 310i is working well with linux, except for the active
> > > antenna that is attached to it. I need it in order to watch some weaker
> > > channels. Is there any way to activate the antenna power of this card
> > > with recent drivers? The Windows software has an option to do that.
> >
> > on which kernel you are currently?
> >
> > We have some reports, that what was assumed to be support for an
> > additional LNA on it is broken on 2.6.26 and onwards, IIRC.
> >
> > There are no previous reports for such an active antenna switch for the
> > 310i I do believe, but Gerd had such an option for the earlier 300i.
> > (card=50)
> >
> > If you don't have any further details, like gpio settings reported from
> > DScaler's regspy, you might try to force the use of that card, nothing
> > won't work, but eventually you get voltage to the antenna. ("modinfo
> > saa7134-dvb")
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Hermann
>
>
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