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GalacticArachnid

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Peak dvb card issue (saa7134)

Hey all,

Been trying to get a (Peak) DVB-T card to work, this old slag: http://www.peakhardware.com/products/pr … p?PAID=199

Now I followed the wiki for MythTV instillation, and that worked fine, however I cannot scan any chanels on the card, and i know the aria gets good signal (tested that).

I have set up the correct module options on boot (from what info i managed to find online, finally):

options saa7134 card=78 tuner=54

and recently, as advised by a gentoo wiki, have tried:

modprobe saa7134 card=78 tuner=54 gpio_tracking=1 i2c_scan=1

However, i still get this in my dmesg when i try to load the module (@boot or otherwise)

saa7130/34: v4l2 driver version 0.2.15 loaded
saa7133[0]: found at 0000:00:06.0, rev: 209, irq: 17, latency: 255, mmio: 0xdffff000
saa7133[0]: subsystem: 17de:7253, board: ASUSTeK P7131 Dual [card=78,insmod option]
saa7133[0]: board init: gpio is 100
saa7133[0]: gpio: mode=0x0000000 in=0x0000100 out=0x0000000 [pre-init]
input: saa7134 IR (ASUSTeK P7131 Dual) as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:06.0/input/input9
IRQ 17/saa7133[0]: IRQF_DISABLED is not guaranteed on shared IRQs
saa7133[0]: i2c eeprom 00: de 17 53 72 ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
saa7133[0]: i2c eeprom 10: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
saa7133[0]: i2c eeprom 20: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff 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 ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff 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 eeprom 80: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
saa7133[0]: i2c eeprom 90: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
saa7133[0]: i2c eeprom a0: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
saa7133[0]: i2c eeprom b0: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
saa7133[0]: i2c eeprom c0: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
saa7133[0]: i2c eeprom d0: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
saa7133[0]: i2c eeprom e0: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
saa7133[0]: i2c eeprom f0: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
saa7133[0]: i2c scan: found device @ 0x10  [???]
saa7133[0]: i2c scan: found device @ 0x96  [???]
saa7133[0]: i2c scan: found device @ 0xa0  [eeprom]
tuner 1-004b: chip found @ 0x96 (saa7133[0])
tda829x 1-004b: setting tuner address to 61
tda829x 1-004b: type set to tda8290+75a
saa7133[0]: gpio: mode=0x0200000 in=0x0000100 out=0x0000000 [Television]
saa7133[0]: gpio: mode=0x0200000 in=0x0000100 out=0x0000000 [Television]
saa7133[0]: gpio: mode=0x0200000 in=0x0000100 out=0x0000000 [Television]
saa7133[0]: registered device video0 [v4l2]
saa7133[0]: registered device vbi0
saa7133[0]: registered device radio0
saa7133[0]: gpio: mode=0x0200000 in=0x0000100 out=0x0200000 [Radio]
dvb_init() allocating 1 frontend
DVB: registering new adapter (saa7133[0])
DVB: registering adapter 0 frontend 0 (Philips TDA10046H DVB-T)...
tda1004x: setting up plls for 48MHz sampling clock
saa7133[0]: gpio: mode=0x0200000 in=0x0000100 out=0x0000000 [Television]
tda1004x: found firmware revision ea -- invalid
tda1004x: trying to boot from eeprom
tda1004x: timeout waiting for DSP ready
tda1004x: found firmware revision c2 -- invalid
tda1004x: waiting for firmware upload...
saa7134 0000:00:06.0: firmware: requesting dvb-fe-tda10046.fw
tda1004x: found firmware revision c2 -- invalid
tda1004x: firmware upload failed
saa7133[0]/dvb: could not access tda8290 I2C gate
tda827x_probe_version: could not read from tuner at addr: 0xc2
saa7134 ALSA driver for DMA sound loaded
IRQ 17/saa7133[0]: IRQF_DISABLED is not guaranteed on shared IRQs
saa7133[0]/alsa: saa7133[0] at 0xdffff000 irq 17 registered as card -1

that output of from the second module options variation, but the first still gives this same result:

tda1004x: found firmware revision ea -- invalid
tda1004x: trying to boot from eeprom

The firmware I have downloaded and "installed" (read mv -ed) to /lib/firmware/

Any suggestions, other than getting the kernel sources and recompiling the module?

xD

GalacticArachnid

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Re: Peak dvb card issue (saa7134)

(bump)

and by the by, the dmesg there is after i had modprobed the saa7134 module, on boot its pretty much the same, except the invalid firmware revision is ea each time.

Bah! Any clues peeps?

GalacticArachnid

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Re: Peak dvb card issue (saa7134)

Hmmm, now this is strange.

Now the module seems to oad fine, with a revision code of 20. However, during scanning mythtv shows no lock, and no signal. I have however ruled out the arial as being at fault here, as i have tested it with a small dvb tv, which showed great signal, and no problems.

Furthermore, heres something i get with wine, eerytime i launch anything, even the config utility:

err:alsa:ALSA_CheckSetVolume Could not find 'PCM Playback Volume' element
fixme:mixer:ALSA_MixerInit No master control found on SAA7134, disabling mixer

So the alsa module is loaded and registered, but it cant access the card?

And audacious2 fails to load now for some very strange reason when the saa7134 module is unloaded (seems it ties in to it, and refuses to run without the module):

Failed to load plugin (/usr/lib/audacious/Input/cdaudio-ng.so): libcdio_cdda.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
Failed to load plugin (/usr/lib/audacious/Input/musepack.so): libtag.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
Failed to load plugin (/usr/lib/audacious/Input/sid.so): libsidplay.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
Failed to load plugin (/usr/lib/audacious/General/mtp_up.so): libmtp.so.8: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
Failed to load plugin (/usr/lib/audacious/Visualization/projectm-1.0.so): libprojectM.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
Failed to load plugin (/usr/lib/audacious/Transport/mms.so): libmms.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
ERROR: ALSA: alsa-core.c:107 (alsaplug_mixer_new_for_card): failed to attach to hardware mixer: No such file or directory
Segmentation fault

The strange thing is that this was not a problem yesterday or the day before.

well, at least the module's loading! (ish)

GalacticArachnid

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Re: Peak dvb card issue (saa7134)

As for tuning, the problem seems to be that neither dvb-utils' scan, myth-tv nor kaffeine can lock onto a signal.

Could the be due to the wrong tuner?

Could someone just post a message saying hi, so i dont feel like im writing a personal log? xD

LarryBari

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From: Hobart, Australia

Registered: 2008-09-01

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Re: Peak dvb card issue (saa7134)

Hi.
I have the Compro DVB T300 card which uses the saa7134 chip.
The module was working out of the box for this (latest) kernel.
Basically I have just run the dvb-apps or whatever it is called scan utility to find channels.
Having some issues with picking up a few channels but there are numerous complaints on the webs about this cards reception issues.
I am getting a fusion lite dvb card shortly and will see whether this is indeed the case.

Larry.

Ps.
Hi

GalacticArachnid

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Re: Peak dvb card issue (saa7134)

Hi Larry,

Its been a while since I've visited this thread, as I did not take the tower for my dvb card needs with me to Uni - tv licensing and all that, so it hasn't been at the fore-front of my mind for a while. However, if you can shed any light on this, then that would be fabulous.

xD