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Pinnacle 310i - partial success report, composite-in problem

Hi,
I've recently bought a Pinnacle PCTV 310i card.
I've managed to get the analog part work under Linux.

I'm using Ubuntu Breezy (kernel 2.6.12) with an AMD64 system (I'm using
386 kernel and libraries for now) with the latest V4L Mercurial (checked
out this morning). I compiled everything with GCC 3.4. For the record, I
live in Italy (PAL-B/G, DVB-T coverage around here - great for the
olympic games).
I followed the instructions found on the wiki (how to build from CVS).
After make install'ing the newly compiled modules I have loaded the
saa7134 module using 'card=77' as the only option and I have been able
to run a tvtime-scan to find out lots of analog channels and now I can
watch them - I still haven't tried audio, but I don't care that much
about analog audio anyways (I really just want to get the DVB part
working, plus composite input).

I think I have found at least a quirk, though: if I try to connect a
composite video source to the card, using the composite-to-svideo
adapter bundled with the card, my computer freezes (hard and fast: no
response from keyboard, not even keyboard leds blinking the familiar
kernel panic signal). After that rebooting the sistem (even cold
rebooting it, or switching everything off, removing the card, going for
a 15 minutes walk and then putting everything back in order) and running
tvtime (or mplayer, or even the media center analog channel search
routine under Windows!) makes the computer freeze again.

Every single time.

In order to recover from this unfortunate condition I had to boot
Windows and run the DVB-T channel search utility from the media center
control panel. I don't know what is going on, and I am willing to help
debugging (as long as I don't have to modify the hardware in any way)
because I was counting on getting the composite input to work.

Now I am trying with dvb-t support. I suppose I have to write to the
linux-dvb mailing list for that.

HTH,
Pierluigi Rolando


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