[mythtv-users] AverMedia A180 loading saa7134, need saa7134-dvb...

Chad masterclc at gmail.com
Thu Oct 12 09:29:57 UTC 2006


Hello!

I'm trying to get an A180 working on my system, but for the life of me
cannot.  It's my second card, so I think it's highly unlikely the
cards fault this time :)

It seems that I'm supposed to load saa7134-dvb, but *not* saa7134 to
get this card working; but, I can't load just the saa7134-dvb as it
also requires the saa7134 be loaded.  I'll post up what happens:

modprobe saa7134-dvb -v
insmod /lib/modules/2.6.17-gentoo-r5/kernel/drivers/media/dvb/frontends/tda1004x.ko
insmod /lib/modules/2.6.17-gentoo-r5/kernel/drivers/media/video/ir-kbd-i2c.ko
insmod /lib/modules/2.6.17-gentoo-r5/kernel/drivers/media/video/saa7134/saa7134.ko
insmod /lib/modules/2.6.17-gentoo-r5/kernel/drivers/media/video/saa7134/saa7134-dvb.ko

-------------------

Then, the end of dmesg:

saa7130/34: v4l2 driver version 0.2.14 loaded
PCI: Enabling device 0000:00:0b.0 (0004 -> 0006)
PCI: setting IRQ 9 as level-triggered
PCI: Assigned IRQ 9 for device 0000:00:0b.0
saa7133[0]: found at 0000:00:0b.0, rev: 209, irq: 9, latency: 64,
mmio: 0xda800000
saa7133[0]: subsystem: 1461:1044, board: AVerMedia AVerTVHD MCE A180
[card=75,autodetected]
saa7133[0]: board init: gpio is 10400
tuner 4-0061: chip found @ 0xc2 (saa7133[0])
tuner 4-0063: chip found @ 0xc6 (saa7133[0])
saa7133[0]: i2c eeprom 00: 61 14 44 10 54 20 1c 00 43 43 a9 1c 55 d2 b2 92
saa7133[0]: i2c eeprom 10: 00 ff 86 0f ff 20 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
saa7133[0]: i2c eeprom 20: 01 40 01 02 02 ff 01 03 06 ff 01 11 00 00 00 00
saa7133[0]: i2c eeprom 30: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
saa7133[0]: i2c eeprom 40: ff 64 00 c2 14 16 ff ff 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
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
tuner 4-0061: tuner type not set
tuner 4-0061: tuner type not set
saa7133[0]: registered device video3 [v4l2]
saa7133[0]: registered device vbi3
nxt200x: NXT2004 Detected
DVB: registering new adapter (saa7133[0]).
DVB: registering frontend 1 (Nextwave NXT200X VSB/QAM frontend)...
nxt2004: Waiting for firmware upload (dvb-fe-nxt2004.fw)...
nxt2004: Waiting for firmware upload(2)...
nxt2004: Firmware upload complete
nxt200x: Timeout waiting for nxt2004 to init.
----------------

The last line comes after I try using dvbscan to tune some channels
(this is all using 8VSB/OTA not QAM).

If I remove the saa7134 (mv saa7134.ko /tmp/ ) from the kernel and run
depmod, I get unresolved symbols referring to the saa7134 module.

Any advice?  Anyone else hit this roadblock and overcome it?

Thanks!

-Chad


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