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
