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ASUSTeK Tiger LNA Hybrid Capture Device - signal unstable.



hermann pitton ha scritto:
Am Freitag, den 02.03.2007, 02:03 +0100 schrieb Ra.M.:
Hartmut Hackmann wrote:

Hi,

Ra.M. schrieb:
Hi.

This thread:

http://www.linuxtv.org/pipermail/linux-dvb/2007-February/
015705.html
has helped me to (partially) solve my problems with a
DVB-T card (PCI)
ASUSTeK Tiger LNA Hybrid Capture Device
with Jayhawk tuner.

/sbin/lspci -v

03:0a.0 Multimedia controller: Philips Semiconductors
SAA7133/SAA7135
Video Broadcast Decoder (rev d1)
Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Unknown device
4871
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ
23
Memory at fdefe000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable)
[size=2K]
This is the procedure that I have followed:

1) I have downloaded, compiled and installed, latest
Mercurial
v4l-dvb-6a48ec9e0f65.tar.bz2

2) I have downloaded the firmware dvb-fe-tda10046.fw
(from LifeView) and
put it in /lib/firmware.

3) I have created a file /etc/modprobe.d/dvb.conf with
these lines:
alias char-major-81 videodev
alias char-major-81-0 saa7134
options saa7134 card=78 tuner 67
i2c_scan=1
gpio_tracking=1 alsa=1

alias        char-major-89        i2c-dev

(for me card=78 works better than card=109)

4) I have added to /etc/rc.d/rc.modules these lines:

/sbin/modprobe saa7134-alsa
/sbin/modprobe saa7134-dvb

At boot time I get (from dmesg):

saa7133[0]: found at 0000:03:0a.0, rev: 209, irq: 23,
latency: 32, mmio:
0xfdefe000
saa7133[0]: subsystem: 1043:4871, board: ASUSTeK P7131
Dual
[card=78,insmod option]
saa7133[0]: board init: gpio is 0
saa7133[0]: gpio: mode=0x0000000 in=0x0000000
out=0x0000000 [pre-init]
input: saa7134 IR (ASUSTeK P7131 Dual) as
/class/input/input5
saa7133[0]: i2c eeprom 00: 43 10 71 48 54 20 1c 00 43 43
a9 1c 55 d2 b2 92
saa7133[0]: i2c eeprom 10: ff ff ff 0f ff 20 ff ff ff ff
ff ff ff ff ff ff
saa7133[0]: i2c eeprom 20: 01 40 01 02 03 00 01 03 08 ff
00 cf ff ff ff ff
saa7133[0]: i2c eeprom 30: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
ff ff ff ff ff ff
saa7133[0]: i2c eeprom 40: ff 21 00 c2 96 10 03 22 15 50
ff ff ff ff ff ff
saa7133[0]: i2c eeprom 50: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
ff ff ff ff ff ff
saa7133[0]: i2c eeprom 60: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
ff ff ff ff ff ff
saa7133[0]: i2c eeprom 70: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
ff ff ff ff ff ff
saa7133[0]: i2c scan: found device (at) 0x10 [???]
saa7133[0]: i2c scan: found device (at) 0x96 [???]
saa7133[0]: i2c scan: found device (at) 0xa0 [eeprom]
saa7133[0]: gpio: mode=0x0200000 in=0x0000000
out=0x0000000 [Television]
saa7133[0]: gpio: mode=0x0200000 in=0x0000000
out=0x0000000 [Television]
tuner 2-004b: chip found (at) 0x96 (saa7133[0])
tuner 2-004b: type set to 67 (Philips TD1316 Hybrid
Tuner)
tuner 2-004b: type set to 67 (Philips TD1316 Hybrid
Tuner)
saa7133[0]: registered device video0 [v4l2]
saa7133[0]: registered device vbi0
saa7133[0]: registered device radio0
saa7133[0]: gpio: mode=0x0200000 in=0x0000000
out=0x0000000 [Television]
DVB: registering new adapter (saa7133[0]).
DVB: registering frontend 0 (Philips TDA10046H DVB-T)...
tda1004x: setting up plls for 48MHz sampling clock
tda1004x: timeout waiting for DSP ready
tda1004x: found firmware revision 0 -- invalid
tda1004x: trying to boot from eeprom
tda1004x: timeout waiting for DSP ready
tda1004x: found firmware revision 0 -- invalid
tda1004x: waiting for firmware upload...
tda1004x: found firmware revision 29 -- ok
saa7134 ALSA driver for DMA sound loaded
saa7133[0]/alsa: saa7133[0] at 0xfdefe000 irq 23
registered as card -1
All works but when I try to view something with kaffeine
or xine, the
signal appears
unstable; this is a snapshot from xine:

http://xoomer.alice.it/ramsoft/shots/snapshot1.jpg

Under Windows XP (software CyberLink Power Cinema) the
signal is very
stable.

Another problem is that under Linux I cannot tune VHF
channels; there is
a MUX at
226.5 MHz but, neither kaffeine, nor scan, can find it.

What is wrong in my procedure?

Thanks.

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Sorry, not much time today.
Please get the repository from today (bug fixed) and try
card=109. AFIK, your
card is very similar.
Regarding the missing mux: The channel decoder is qiute picky
with the parameters
please check whether FEC and GI are right (some other drivers
just ignore these).
If this works better, can you please report?

Good luck
Hartmut
I have tried your suggestions. No improvements.

However, it seems that this mothel of DVB-T card has a very poor
 quality!


Hi,

it is likely only some switching issue.

The card is dirt cheap compared to what one payed 1 1/2 years back for
the P7131 Dual and only misses radio and the remote.

Emmanuel in your above link got DVB-T working after using analog TV
first with card=109 and for sure not tuner=67, but the default 54.
You tried this too just with card=109 ?

If no success, it seems he was using tuner_config=3.
http://www.linuxtv.org/pipermail/linux-dvb/2007-February/015755.html
We must get at a point where we have something reproducable.

The missing mux can also be caused by 7MHz bandwidth instead of 8.

Hermann





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I'm using tuner_config=2 and bandwidth is 8 MHz for all muxes.

With card=78 or card=109 I get the same results (the card works but the signal is
unstable); tuner=58 for me does not work (or works very badly).


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