Re: Help with Sabrent TV-USBHD (Syntek Teledongle) on Ubuntu Karmic

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On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 12:01 PM, James Klaas
<jklaas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I recently updated my play/work/fiddle with workstation and I wanted
> to see if my USB card still worked (OK, it never really worked).
>
> Previously, I was running Ubuntu 9.04 with a version retrieved from
> mercurial with the patch from
> http://linuxtv.org/hg/~mkrufky/teledongle/raw-rev/676e2f4475ed.  It
> patched without error, compiled without error and installed against
> the stock kernel without error.  When I loaded it, it complained about
> not being the right kind of firmware (which was noted in the
> discussion on the device) but otherwise it seemed to load fine
> (unfortunately, I don't seem to have a dmesg from that).  When I tried
> using it to tune anything, it would tune a couple things, but put them
> on channels that were far different than the ones found by other dvb
> cards.  It did however manage to pick up the SCTE-65 data using the
> scte65scan utility.
>
> Now that I've upgraded to 9.10, it no longer seems to find the tuner.
> I retrieved v4l-dvb via mercurial yesterday (12 Nov, 2009) applied the
> patch (which applied with a couple of offsets but no errors) and built
> the source.  I had to disable the FireDTV driver, but other than that,
> it compiled with some warnings but no errors.  It installed fine over
> the stock kernel.  However, when I load it, I now get the following
> errors in dmesg:
>
> [   93.770329] au0828 driver loaded
> [   94.160154] au0828: i2c bus registered
> [   94.201922] tveeprom 1-0050: Huh, no eeprom present (err=-5)?
> [   94.204976] tuner 1-0000: chip found @ 0x0 (au0828)
> [   94.271442] tuner-simple 1-0000: unable to probe Temic PAL (4002
> FH5), proceeding anyway.
> [   94.271452] tuner-simple 1-0000: creating new instance
> [   94.271459] tuner-simple 1-0000: type set to 0 (Temic PAL (4002 FH5))
> [   94.313325] tuner-simple 1-0000: i2c i/o error: rc == -5 (should be 4)
> [   94.340407] au8522 1-0047: creating new instance
> [   94.383357] au8522_writereg: writereg error (reg == 0xa4, val ==
> 0x0020, ret == -5)
> [   94.424364] au8522_writereg: writereg error (reg == 0x106, val ==
> 0x0001, ret == -5)
> [   94.465503] au8522_writereg: writereg error (reg == 0x106, val ==
> 0x0001, ret == -5)
> [   94.501336] tda18271 1-0060: creating new instance
> [   94.543412] au8522_writereg: writereg error (reg == 0x106, val ==
> 0x0001, ret == -5)
> [   94.666327] au8522_writereg: writereg error (reg == 0x106, val ==
> 0x0000, ret == -5)
> [   94.666339] tda18271_read_regs: [1-0060|M] ERROR: i2c_transfer returned: -5
> [   94.666347] Unknown device detected @ 1-0060, device not supported.
> [   94.707712] au8522_writereg: writereg error (reg == 0x106, val ==
> 0x0001, ret == -5)
> [   94.789369] au8522_writereg: writereg error (reg == 0x106, val ==
> 0x0000, ret == -5)
> [   94.789376] tda18271_read_regs: [1-0060|M] ERROR: i2c_transfer returned: -5
> [   94.789381] Unknown device detected @ 1-0060, device not supported.
> [   94.789387] tda18271_attach: [1-0060|M] error -22 on line 1272
> [   94.789393] tda18271 1-0060: destroying instance
> [   94.853137] mt2131 I2C read failed
> [   94.853350] DVB: registering new adapter (au0828)
> [   94.853359] DVB: registering adapter 1 frontend 0 (Auvitek AU8522
> QAM/8VSB Frontend)...
> [   94.853943] Registered device AU0828 [Syntek Teledongle [EXPERIMENTAL]]
>
> Did something not patch correctly?  The patch from mkrufky is now
> nearly a year old.  I'd really like to contribute somehow, but I have
> no idea where I should start.
>
> Thank you for taking a look at this.

I would start by reviewing the previous thread/discussion on this
particular topic with subject line: "au0828: experimental support for
Syntek Teledongle [05e1:0400]"

http://linuxtv.org/pipermail/linux-dvb/2009-August/032306.html

Devin

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