<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Hi Lew,</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>I have that card and also had some trouble with it, to start with.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>It would not pick up any dvb, though it could get some analogue stations.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Then I tried manual tuning, i.e. entering all of the data for a given station, and it</DIV><DIV>did lock on to a signal and pick up some stations. I see you didn't have luck doing</DIV><DIV>that, as you say below.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Later I bought an indoor antenna with signal amplifier and after many hours</DIV><DIV>of positioning the antenna I managed to get a good signal and presto, the card</DIV><DIV>would pick up all the channels (even better than the roof mounted outdoor antenna,</DIV><DIV>which works okay for my stb but didn't work at all for the card)</DIV><DIV>and I can now simply scan for channels and it picks them up.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>I think the issue may be that the dvb-t300 does not work well with weak signals.</DIV><DIV>Signal strength of 58% _should_ get something though.</DIV><DIV>When you say "creating relevant transports for AU" do you mean entering QAM,</DIV><DIV>bandwidth, FEC and so forth... I had to enter all of this _exactly_ as it was required</DIV><DIV>in order to get a lock (that is until I got my indoor antenna setup, then everything</DIV><DIV>went smoothly).</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>--Aaron</DIV><BR><DIV><DIV>On 03/07/2006, at 11:26 PM, Lewis wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><P>Hi All,</P><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><P>I'm toying with a dvb-t300 that appears to be almost there...</P><P>I tried 2.6.17, but couldn't get the dvb-t300 nor the 0.7 series ivtv drivers, for the --normally working well-- hauppage pvr-250mce, to work at all. </P><P>Reverted to 2.6.16, no luck with the stock kernel drivers => installed v4l-dvb-a3a095225de1. & 0.6.3 ivtv => looking better..... but unable to get mythtv to successfully use the new dvbt-300 card.</P><P>I was unable to get anything out of the analogue or dvb of the dvbt-300, despite all devices being created as you'd like them to. </P><P>I suspect tuner type issues may be at hand...?</P><P>Nothing from the analogue tuner which is listed in saa7134-cards.c as a TD1316; on the card is also a TDA9886TS that loads with a TDA9887 tuner.</P><P>After creating the relevant transports for AU and scanning in mythtv, no lock ony any channel, despite signal strength >= 58%</P><P>Import of channel info from zap did not assist still unable to get lock on dvb.</P><P>The correct tuner appears to be detected ... on card lists as a TDA10046A & dmesg shows TDA10046H frontend. </P><P>Are there any module parameters to play with here for the tuner modules e.g. a PAL setting?</P><P>I've had a dig around the relevant c files but can't see anything obvious.</P><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><P>Better still, can anyone tell me that they have a dvbt-300 behaving and what it took?</P><P>Cheers,</P><P>Lew</P><P>A bit more detail below for anyone interested in picking through the heap below in search of something to fit the picture together. </P><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><P>relevant dmesg entries...</P><P>saa7130/34: v4l2 driver version 0.2.14 loaded</P><P>saa7134[0]: found at 0000:02:07.0, rev: 1, irq: 201, latency: 32, mmio: 0xf500a000</P><P>saa7134[0]: subsystem: 185b:c900, board: Compro Videomate DVB-T300 [card=70,autodetected]</P><P>saa7134[0]: board init: gpio is 843f00</P><P>input: saa7134 IR (Compro Videomate DV as /class/input/input2</P><P>saa7134[0]: i2c eeprom 00: 5b 18 00 c9 54 20 1c 00 43 43 a9 1c 55 d2 b2 92</P><P>saa7134[0]: i2c eeprom 10: 00 ff 86 0f ff 20 ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff</P><P>saa7134[0]: i2c eeprom 20: 01 40 01 03 03 ff 03 01 08 ff 00 87 ff ff ff ff</P><P>saa7134[0]: i2c eeprom 30: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff</P><P>saa7134[0]: i2c eeprom 40: ff 02 00 c2 86 10 ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff</P><P>saa7134[0]: i2c eeprom 50: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff cb</P><P>saa7134[0]: i2c eeprom 60: 34 ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff</P><P>saa7134[0]: i2c eeprom 70: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff</P><P>tuner 2-0061: chip found @ 0xc2 (saa7134[0])</P><P>tuner 2-0068: chip found @ 0xd0 (saa7134[0])</P><P>tda9887 2-0043: chip found @ 0x86 (saa7134[0])</P><P>saa7134[0]: registered device video0 [v4l2]</P><P>saa7134[0]: registered device vbi0</P><P>saa7134 OSS driver for DMA sound loaded</P><P>saa7134[0]: registered device dsp1</P><P>saa7134[0]: registered device mixer1</P><P>DVB: registering new adapter (saa7134[0]).</P><P>tda9887 2-0043: chip found @ 0x86 (saa7134[0])</P><P>tveeprom 3-0050: tuner model is Philips FM1216 ME MK3 (idx 57, type 3</P><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><P>tuner 2-0061: chip found @ 0xc2 (saa7134[0])</P><P>tuner 2-0061: type set to 67 (Philips TD1316 Hybrid Tuner)</P><P>tuner 2-0068: chip found @ 0xd0 (saa7134[0])</P><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><P>DVB: registering new adapter (saa7134[0]).</P><P>DVB: registering frontend 0 (Philips TDA10046H DVB-T)...</P><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><P>tda9887 3-0043: chip found @ 0x86 (ivtv i2c driver #0)</P><P>tda1004x: setting up plls for 48MHz sampling clock</P><P>tda1004x: found firmware revision 23 -- ok</P><P>tda9887 2-0043: chip found @ 0x86 (saa7134[0])</P><P>tda9887 3-0043: chip found @ 0x86 (ivtv i2c driver #0)</P><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><P>I'm a bit concerned about the duplication with the tda9887, wondering if the ivtv & std drivers play well together?</P><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; 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