Hello.
Today I got my hands on the <subj.> card, a.k.a. AVer A706, noticing
that are very few mentions of this card relating to Linux around the
web, much less in the way of getting it work. Let me start with the
hardware.
Product images can be found at [1] (not very useful), I took close-ups
of the important bits and uploaded them to [2] (feel free to
take/re-upload them). The chipsets are:
NXP SAA7131E
NXP TDA18271
Intel EC6313 (rebadged Zarlink ZL10313) [3]
Intel EC5039 (rebadged Zarlink ZL10039) [3]
All those chips seem to have a driver in the tree, so I thought I was
off to a good start.
Now onto the software. The machine I'm trying it out on doesn't have a
persistent linux installation (yet). After booting up the live-session
('buntu 12.04), I find the "rant" in dmesg:
Jun 5 20:45:55 ubuntu kernel: [ 47.701264] saa7134: <rant>
Jun 5 20:45:55 ubuntu kernel: [ 47.701266] saa7134:
Congratulations! Your TV card vendor saved a few
Jun 5 20:45:55 ubuntu kernel: [ 47.701269] saa7134: cents for a
eeprom, thus your pci board has no
Jun 5 20:45:55 ubuntu kernel: [ 47.701271] saa7134: subsystem ID
and I can't identify it automatically
Jun 5 20:45:55 ubuntu kernel: [ 47.701274] saa7134: </rant>
Jun 5 20:45:55 ubuntu kernel: [ 47.701276] saa7134: I feel better
now. Ok, here are the good news:
Jun 5 20:45:55 ubuntu kernel: [ 47.701279] saa7134: You can use the
card=<nr> insmod option to specify
Jun 5 20:45:55 ubuntu kernel: [ 47.701281] saa7134: which board do
you have. The list:
...
The list doesn't contain my card. Reading the instructions below the
rant, I performed:
# echo 1 > /sys/class/video4linux/video0/device/remove
# modprobe -r saa7134 saa7134_alsa
# modprobe saa7134 card=0
# echo 1 > /sys/class/pci_bus/0000:00/rescan
This, apart from the rant and the long list of cards produces the
following lines:
[ 1080.705407] saa7133[0]: subsystem: 1461:2055, board:
UNKNOWN/GENERIC [card=0,insmod option]
[ 1080.712069] saa7133[0]: board init: gpio is 3500
[ 1080.864028] saa7133[0]: i2c eeprom 00: 61 14 55 20 00 00 00 00 00
00 00 00 00 00 00 00
[ 1080.864053] saa7133[0]: i2c eeprom 10: ff ff ff ff ff 20 ff ff ff
ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
[ 1080.864074] saa7133[0]: i2c eeprom 20: 02 40 01 02 02 01 01 04 06
ff 00 57 ff ff ff ff
[ 1080.864095] saa7133[0]: i2c eeprom 30: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
[ 1080.864115] saa7133[0]: i2c eeprom 40: 60 a0 00 c6 96 ff 05 30 8b
05 ff 40 ff ff ff ff
[ 1080.864136] saa7133[0]: i2c eeprom 50: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
[ 1080.864156] saa7133[0]: i2c eeprom 60: ff 89 00 c0 ff 1c 08 19 97
89 ff ff 80 15 0a ff
[ 1080.864177] saa7133[0]: i2c eeprom 70: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
[ 1080.864198] saa7133[0]: i2c eeprom 80: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
[ 1080.864218] saa7133[0]: i2c eeprom 90: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
[ 1080.864238] saa7133[0]: i2c eeprom a0: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
[ 1080.864259] saa7133[0]: i2c eeprom b0: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
[ 1080.864279] saa7133[0]: i2c eeprom c0: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
[ 1080.864300] saa7133[0]: i2c eeprom d0: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
[ 1080.864320] saa7133[0]: i2c eeprom e0: 00 01 81 b0 65 07 ff ff ff
ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
[ 1080.864341] saa7133[0]: i2c eeprom f0: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
[ 1080.867623] saa7133[0]: registered device video0 [v4l2]
[ 1080.867800] saa7133[0]: registered device vbi0
[ 1080.867867] saa7133[0]/alsa: saa7133[0] at 0x40001000 irq 17
registered as card -2
The analog /dev/video0 is cool but useless in the face of upcoming
analog TV switchoff, and /dev/dvb is still nowhere to be seen. So,
assuming I'm doing things correctly, where do I go from here?
Any and all help is greatly appreciated.
Best regards,
MZ
[1] http://www.nix.ru/include/view-photo.html?good_id=87515
[2] http://imgur.com/a/cHVOX#0
[3] http://download.intel.com/design/celect/downloads/31171101.pdf
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