[linux-dvb] SAA7146 / TDA10046H problem

[Hartmut Hackmann]

HI, Nick

Nick Fearnley (Digital Media Projects Ltd.) wrote:
> I can't see that IC, could it be integrated into the can?  The tuner is 
> a TD1316A/SIHP.
> 
> But the issue remains for the KNC variant of the budget DVB, the TU1216L 
> tuner has the demod built in.  It exhibits exactly the same sypmtoms, 
> recognised and firmware for the TDA10046HT loads fine but does not 
> appear to get a lock on the frequency.  Most strange, I have noticed 
> others have the same issue, certainly with the TT1500.
> 
> Surely other have had the budget DVB variants of DVB-T working OK?  As I 
> have said, I don't have a problem with the DVB-S budget cards so it must 
> be tuner/demod related.  Is there any debugging I could do to provide 
> additional info?
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Hartmut Hackmann [mailto:hartmut.hackmann at t-online.de]
> Sent: Mon 12/18/2006 9:40 PM
> To: Nick Fearnley (Digital Media Projects Ltd.)
> Cc: linux-dvb at linuxtv.org
> Subject: Re: [linux-dvb] SAA7146 / TDA10046H problem
> 
> Hi, Nick
> 
> Nick Fearnley (Digital Media Projects Ltd.) wrote:
>  > Hi,
>  >
>  > I have been having problems getting a TT-1500T to work as discussed
>  > previously.  I get exactly the same on a KNC1 DVB-T card.  Essentially
>  > it's the same architecture - although on the TT the TDA is external to
>  > the tuner (a TD1316A) and the KNC uses the TU1216L.  Incidenttally I
>  > needed to add the budget-av driver to the kernel to get the KNC even
>  > recognised, the TT not requiring this.
>  >
>  > Through dvbtune I get the following:
>  >
>  > ./dvbtune -c 1 -f 626000000
>  > tda1004x: setting up plls for 53MHz sampling clock
>  > tda1004x: found firmware revision 29 -- ok
>  > Using DVB card "Philips TDA10046H DVB-T"
>  > tuning DVB-T (in United Kingdom) to 626000000 Hz
>  > polling....
>  > Getting frontend event
>  > FE_STATUS:
>  > polling....
>  > polling....
>  >
>  > I have a completely different card in also (Nova-T - Conexant) which
>  > tunes no problem so I know the feed is fine.
>  >
>  > I must have something configured wrong here for both cards not to work
>  > in the same way.  Maybe a kernel driver?  I do not enable module support
>  > - all built into the kernel.  I have stripped everything I think I don't
>  > require from the kernel.  Also all the DVB-S (SAA7146 and Conexant) that
>  > I use work fine, so I'm assuming it MUST be TDA or tuner related here. 
>  > My timer is 1000Hz - but I'm not thinking this is an issue?
>  >
>  > Thanks in advance for any pointers.
>  >
>  > Nick
>  >
> The card has a TD1316 tuner? Can you find a chip named TDA9889 on the
> card? If yes, the channel decoder needs to be programmed differently.
> 
> Hartmut
> 
> 
No, The IC isn't in the can. But if yo have the same problem with a TU1216,
this can't be the reasom. I have such a card runnig here. I never tried the
recent firmware 2.9 in direct IF mode (36MHz)  but i don't think that this
is the problem.
I remember this was discussed already but are you sure that the reception
parameters are right for your place?
2 notes regarding this:
- Some channel decoders ignore the parameters like FEC GI etc. and always
   determine these automatically. The TDA10046 driver doesn't. They *must*
   be right or set to automatic.
- In the UK, many transmitters are off the nominal frequency by +/- 166khz
   This is not always documented. Opposite to some other channel decoders,
   the current tda10046 driver can't compensate this.
So: If some other card works with your parameters, this doesn't prove that
they are right, sorry.

Best regards
    Hartmut