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Need driver for ATV-TUNER-F




hermann pitton wrote:
> 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
> 
> 
> 

Yes, it is loaded. I also tried adding the port2=0 option in
/etc/modprobe.conf but It didn't change much.

Here's the output output from dmesg

Linux video capture interface: v1.00
bttv: driver version 0.9.16 loaded
bttv: using 4 buffers with 2080k (520 pages) each for capture
bttv: Bt8xx card found (0).
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:05:0d.0[A] -> GSI 18 (level, low) -> IRQ 16
bttv0: Bt878 (rev 17) at 0000:05:0d.0, irq: 16, latency: 66, mmio:
0xfc500000
bttv0: using: 3Dfx VoodooTV FM (Euro), VoodooTV 200 (USA)
[card=68,insmod option]
bttv0: gpio: en=00000000, out=00000000 in=00f9807f [init]
bttv0: Hauppauge/Voodoo msp34xx: reset line init [20]
bttv0: using tuner=43
bttv0: i2c: checking for MSP34xx  (at)  0x80... not found
bttv0: i2c: checking for TDA9875  (at)  0xb0... not found
bttv0: i2c: checking for TDA7432  (at)  0x8a... not found
bttv0: i2c: checking for TDA9887  (at)  0x86... found
tda9887 0-0043: chip found  (at)  0x86 (bt878 #0 [sw])
tuner 0-0060: All bytes are equal. It is not a TEA5767
tuner 0-0060: chip found  (at)  0xc0 (bt878 #0 [sw])
tuner 0-0060: type set to 43 (Philips NTSC MK3 (FM1236MK3 or FM1236/F))
bttv0: registered device video0
bttv0: registered device vbi0
bttv0: registered device radio0
bttv0: PLL: 28636363 => 35468950 .. ok
bt878: AUDIO driver version 0.0.0 loaded
bt878: Bt878 AUDIO function found (0).
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:05:0d.1[A] -> GSI 18 (level, low) -> IRQ 16
bt878_probe: card id=[0x0],[ <NULL> ] has DVB functions.
bt878(0): Bt878 (rev 17) at 05:0d.1, irq: 16, latency: 66, memory:
0xfc501000

and a screenshot


thanks for your help!

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chalito

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