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Hello i have a problem with a digital tv card i have recently purchased and am hoping that someone can help me to get it going

The card is a Compro VideoMate DVB-T300

the entry from the lspci -v is here:

Code:

02:06.0 Multimedia controller: Philips Semiconductors SAA7134/SAA7135HL Video Broadcast Decoder (rev 01)

        Subsystem: Compro Technology, Inc. Videomate DVB-T300

        Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 18

        Memory at fddff000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=1K]

        Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 1

lsmod | grep saa
this is after a boot

Code:

saa7134              134376  0

video_buf              26756  1 saa7134

compat_ioctl32          8832  1 saa7134

ir_kbd_i2c            10000  1 saa7134

ir_common              36420  2 saa7134,ir_kbd_i2c

videodev              27712  1 saa7134

v4l2_common            25600  4 tuner,saa7134,compat_ioctl32,videodev

v4l1_compat            12100  2 saa7134,videodev

i2c_core              24664  4 tuner,saa7134,ir_kbd_i2c,i2c_nforce2

and here are the relevant lines from dmesg after i boot

Code:

saa7134[0]: found at 0000:02:06.0, rev: 1, irq: 18, latency: 32, mmio: 0xfddff000

saa7134[0]: subsystem: 185b:c900, board: Compro Videomate DVB-T300 [card=70,autodetected]

saa7134[0]: board init: gpio is 843f00

input: saa7134 IR (Compro Videomate DV as /class/input/input2

usb 1-5: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 3

saa7134[0]: i2c eeprom 00: 5b 18 00 c9 54 20 1c 00 43 43 a9 1c 55 d2 b2 92

saa7134[0]: i2c eeprom 10: 00 ff 86 0f ff 20 ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff

saa7134[0]: i2c eeprom 20: 01 40 01 03 03 ff 03 01 08 ff 00 87 ff ff ff ff

saa7134[0]: i2c eeprom 30: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff

saa7134[0]: i2c eeprom 40: ff 02 00 c2 86 10 ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff

saa7134[0]: i2c eeprom 50: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff cb

saa7134[0]: i2c eeprom 60: 34 ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff

saa7134[0]: i2c eeprom 70: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff

tuner 2-0043: chip found @ 0x86 (saa7134[0])

tda9887 2-0043: tda988[5/6/7] found @ 0x43 (tuner)

tuner 2-0068: chip found @ 0xd0 (saa7134[0])

saa7134[0]: registered device video0 [v4l2]

saa7134[0]: registered device vbi0

I tried loading tvtime, and got no signal, but the following message appeared in the kernel log

tuner 2-0068: tuner type not set

the message repeats whenever i try to change channels
if i try switching to the composite input in tvtime, the card works perfectly and i get the picture

the tv antenna cable works fine when i plug it into the tv so its not that either

so i tried running a script i found that does a modprobe saa7134 over and over with different tuner=x, and loads tvtime inbetween so you can test it
i set MAXTUNER to 73 which is the last entry in src/linux/Documentation/video4linux/CARDLIST.tuner
this still didnt work, none of the tuners gave me any signal

I tried loading the saa7134_dvb module:
modprobe saa7134_dvb

and in the dmesg:
saa7134[0]: frontend initialization failed

I am running debian etch rc1 amd64 - would being 64bit make any difference ?
My kernel is 2.6.19.1 although i have tried others. I noticed there is no tda9887.ko module in 2.6.19, there is a tda9887 found you can see in the dmesg output, so i tried kernel 2.6.17.14 and tried a modprobe tda9887 but this did not help either

is there anything else i can try ?

edit: i just fixed up the formatting a bit