Lifeview Flytv DVB-T hybrid - Cardbus

["G D" <fiamazo (at) gmail.com>]

Hi Peter and Hartmut,
many thanks for your useful hints ...
I tried simply recompiling a new kernel, 2.6.15, and with the card=60 option
 the card started working, more or less ...
I mean, I've been able to use tvtime and see some channels, better than my
real TV ;-), but with no sound ...
I've tried with kdetv too, but after some tweaking I managed only to see
some bad tv box in reduced resolution ... 320xsomething ... in full screen
mode I always see a black screen, and only running in a (small) window I
obtain some TV images ...
That said, only video ...
I tried also the radio, I think that the tuner "tunes", but as anticipated
befoer ... no sound ...
Btw, sound is working ... as amarok playing mp3's states clearly ....
I gave a choice also to DVB, with kaffeine, ... that detects the card, as a
DVB souce, but with no channels ... and scanning finds no channels at all
... even no digital signal ... bah?! I windog I obain a dozen of digital
channels ...
Summarizing,
* Analog TV ok
* Sound ko
* Radio ko
* DVB-T ko

The good news is that I managed to make the card partially work, the
remaining problems are question of googling and tweking I guess, let's try
... In any case, suggestions will be appreciated and tested ...
(I'm going to try right now the card=87 option ... let's see)
Again, many thanks, und schoenes Wochenende


On 3/3/06, Hartmut Hackmann <hartmut.hackmann (at) t-online.de> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> Peter Missel wrote:
> > Hi GD!
> >
> > card=55 is the desktop PCI DVB-T Duo. You need to use the Cardbus DUO's
> > number, which is card=60.
> >
> > But you really should use a later release of the v4l driver set, since
> quite a
> > bit of work has gone into supporting the finer details of these LifeView
> > cards recently.
> >
> <snip>
>
> In addition to Peters comment:
> If it really is a hybrid card, you should also give card=87 a try. It will
>
> not support all features but there is a good chance that at least analog
> tv
> and DVB-T work. You should als set the option debug=1 to the tuner.ko and
> i2c_scan=1 to saa7134.ko.
> If you don't use the recent driver, there is the risk that it causes a
> lock
> up. So after you compiled and installed the new modules, unplug and replug
> the card to prevent this.
>
> Good luck
>    Hartmut
>
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