The PCTV 290e had several issues on my mipsel-based STB (powered by a Broadcom 7405 SoC), running a Linux 3.1 kernel and the Enigma2 OS. The most annoying one was that the 290e was able to tune the lone DVB-T2 frequency existing in my area, but was not able to tune any DVB-T channel. Following a suggestion of the original author of the driver, I tried to tweak the wait time in the lock loop. In fact, increasing the wait time from 50 to 200ms in the tuning loop was enough to get the lock on most channels. But channel change was quite slow and sometimes, doing an automatic scan, some frequency was not locked. So instead of playing with the timings I changed the behavior of the search algorithm as explained in the patch 1, with very good results. With this modification, the automatic scan is 100% reliable and zapping is quite fast (on the STB). There is no noticeable difference when using Kaffeine on the PC. But there was a further issue: a few weak channels were affected by high BER and badly corrupted pictures. The same channels were working fine on an Avermedia A867 stick (as well as other sticks). The driver has an option to enable a "Low Noise Amplifier" (LNA) before the demodulator. Enabling it, the reception of weak channels improved a lot, as reported in the description of patch 2. Finally, patch 3 is a trivial clean-up. Best regards, Gianluca Gennari Gianluca Gennari (3): cxd2820r: tweak search algorithm behavior em28xx-dvb: enable LNA for cxd2820r in DVB-T mode cxd2820r: delete unused function cxd2820r_init_t2 drivers/media/dvb/frontends/cxd2820r_core.c | 4 ++-- drivers/media/dvb/frontends/cxd2820r_priv.h | 2 -- drivers/media/video/em28xx/em28xx-dvb.c | 3 ++- 3 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) -- 1.7.5.4 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-media" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
