[linux-dvb] Re: dvb technotrend budget won't work, please help me!

[Christophe Thommeret <hftom@free.fr>]

Le Samedi 3 Juillet 2004 01:57, Benjamin Adler a écrit :
> Hello!
>
> I bought a Technotrend DVB-C PCI budget card on eBay
> (http://cgi.ebay.de/ws/ebayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=5100217074) and have now
> tried for more than two weeks to make it work with linux. I have really
> tried many different things, two different computers, many many kernel
> versions, looking for tutorials or asking people on irc for help. Noone
> could help me.
>
> The dvb-c-card has a Philips SAA 7146A H chip, a Vista VES 1820 chip and
> the tuner is labeled "TDBE2-032A 082113A". The card works fine in windows
> XP. I have built the corresponding options into my gentoo-patched-2.6.7
> kernel. Compiling as modules doesn't make a difference. After booting,
> dmesg tells me:
>
> Linux video capture interface: v1.00
> SAA5246A driver (SAA5246A interface) for VideoText version 1.6
> SAA5249 driver (SAA5249 interface) for VideoText version 1.7
> Colour QuickCam for Video4Linux v0.05
> Zoran MJPEG board driver version 0.9.5
> No known MJPEG cards found.
> Linux video codec intermediate layer: v0.2
> stradis0: SDM2xx found
> videodev: "SAA7146A" has no release callback. Please fix your driver for
> proper sysfs support, see http://lwn.net/Articles/36850/
> stradis: 1 card(s) found.
> stradis0: config = 10 04 13 c2 26 0f ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
> ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
> ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
> saa7130/34: v4l2 driver version 0.2.11 loaded
> cx2388x v4l2 driver version 0.0.3 loaded
> saa7146: register extension 'Multimedia eXtension Board'.
> saa7146: register extension 'hexium HV-PCI6/Orion'.
> saa7146: register extension 'hexium gemini'.
> saa7146: register extension 'dpc7146 demonstration board'.
> saa7146: register extension 'budget dvb'.
> saa7146: found saa7146 @ mem e0917000 (revision 1, irq 18) (0x13c2,0x1004).
> DVB: registering new adapter (TT-Budget/WinTV-NOVA-C  PCI).
> DVB: VES1820(0): setup for tuner sp5659c
> DVB: VES1820(0): pwm=0x48
> DVB: registering frontend 0:0 (VES1820 based DVB-C frontend)...
> TT-Budget/WinTV-NOVA-C  PCI adapter 0 has MAC addr = 00:d0:5c:02:15:c3
>
> and ls -lR /dev/dvb gives:
>
> /dev/dvb/:
> total 0
> drwxrwxrwx  1 root root 0 Jan  1  1970 adapter0
>
> /dev/dvb/adapter0:
> total 0
> crwxrwxrwx  1 root root 250, 4 Jan  1  1970 demux0
> crwxrwxrwx  1 root root 250, 5 Jan  1  1970 dvr0
> crwxrwxrwx  1 root root 250, 3 Jan  1  1970 frontend0
> crwxrwxrwx  1 root root 250, 7 Jan  1  1970 net0
>
> But when I execute the scan-utility
> in /usr/src/linuxtv-dvb-apps-1.1.0/util/scan/ with "./scan dvb-c/de-wtnet",
> I get:
>
> scanning dvb-c/de-wtnet
> using '/dev/dvb/adapter0/frontend0' and '/dev/dvb/adapter0/demux0'
> initial transponder 450000000 6875000 0 3
>
> >>> tune to: 450000000:INVERSION_AUTO:6875000:FEC_NONE:QAM_64
>
> WARNING: >>> tuning failed!!!
>
> >>> tune to: 450000000:INVERSION_AUTO:6875000:FEC_NONE:QAM_64 (tuning
> >>> failed)
>
> WARNING: >>> tuning failed!!!
> ERROR: initial tuning failed
> dumping lists (0 services)
> Done.
>
> I have created the de-wtnet file for my local cable provider (wilhelm tel
> in norderstedt, next to hamburg, www.wtnet.de) and it looks like this:
>
> # Kabel iesy
> # freq sr fec mod
> C 450000000 6875000 NONE QAM64
>
> The result is the same with other provider-files, though. Where is the
> problem, what can I try to fix this?
>
> Thank you for your time!
> Benjamin Adler

maybe your card can't do inversion_auto.
try "scan -i 0 dvb-c/de-wtnet"

-- 
Christophe Thommeret