Need driver for ATV-TUNER-F

[hermann pitton <hermann-pitton (at) arcor.de>]

Am Freitag, den 12.05.2006, 16:12 -0300 schrieb chalito:
> Hi ppl.
> 
> I subscribed to the list because I saw a message that was never
> answered, and I thought I might have some info on it.
> 
> I recently purchased an Advantek ATV-TUNER-F card (in Argentina)
> mistakenly believing it was supported... it's not :(
> 
> Anyway, someone posted something about this card, and was asked for
> details. Here is what I could manage:
> 
> $ lspci -v
> 
> <snip>
> 05:0d.0 Multimedia video controller: Brooktree Corporation Bt878 Video
> Capture (rev 11)
>         Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 66, IRQ 16
>         Memory at fc500000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=4K]
>         Capabilities: [44] Vital Product Data
>         Capabilities: [4c] Power Management version 2
> 
> 05:0d.1 Multimedia controller: Brooktree Corporation Bt878 Audio Capture
> (rev 11)
>         Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 66, IRQ 16
>         Memory at fc501000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=4K]
>         Capabilities: [44] Vital Product Data
>         Capabilities: [4c] Power Management version 2
> 
> 
> $ lspci -vn
> 
> <snip>
> 05:0d.0 0400: 109e:036e (rev 11)
>         Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 66, IRQ 16
>         Memory at fc500000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=4K]
>         Capabilities: [44] Vital Product Data
>         Capabilities: [4c] Power Management version 2
> 
> 05:0d.1 0480: 109e:0878 (rev 11)
>         Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 66, IRQ 16
>         Memory at fc501000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=4K]
>         Capabilities: [44] Vital Product Data
>         Capabilities: [4c] Power Management version 2
> 
> 
> 
> I don't have pics right now, but I'll try to post them later. However,
> looking at the card, I noticed that the label sticked on the metal
> casing (which said : NTSC/FM, as it is an FM capable model) there was
> another label, so I tried to take the first label off and here's what I
> found underneath it:
> 
> MFNM05-4
> TCL0506159 3
> (I'm not completely sure about the last one, the label didn't come out
> cleanly).
> 
> So here's 2 things I can tell about the card so far:
> 1) It uses a bt878 chip
> 2) It has a Philips NTSC MK3 (FM1236MK3, type 43) tuner.
> 
> I tried various values for the card parameter in bttv.ko, and for some
> of them I had a signal, but very distorted and ugly. It looks as if the
> norm wasn't correct.
> 
> Theoreticaly here in Argentina we use PAL-N, but if I set the norm to
> pal-n or pal-nc in tvtime I don't get signal on any channels. Only ntsc
> works (barely).
> The weird part is that booting into windows, and using the bundled soft,
> I configure the tv player with pal-nc and it works perfectly.
> 
> anyone has any Ideas?
> I *definetly* need it working before the world cup begins :)
> 
> thanks!
> 
> Chalito
> 

Hi Chalito,

is the tda9887 module loaded?

If you experience hissing noise on audio try port2=0 for it.

Cheers,
Hermann


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