[linux-dvb] Dib3000mc : LITE-ON USB2.0 DVB-T Tuner

[Patrick Boettcher]

Have you tried the latest drivers from v4l-dvb? People are reporting that 
everything works better with it.

Patrick.

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On Sat, 13 Oct 2007, ludovic pollet wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> I use the dib3000mc driver my a LITE-ON USB DVB-T tuner.
> 
> I have had trouble with it :
>  - the key was not always detected (I had to plug it after the kernel was up)
>  - no frontend was attached !
> 
> I've had a look at what was going on. I discovered that initial I2C read in 
> dib3000mc_identify (dib3000mc.c) was always failling in my case and then that 
> the number returned was not accepted by the driver.
> 
> So I changed the driver to accept the returned number, and to retry the read 
> in case it fails. 
> 
> Now the key always works fine in all cases. (It is working well for more than 
> six month now... I should have send this mail before ;-).
> 
> I attached the patch which makes my key works...
> 
> Regards,
> Ludovic P
> 
> 
> 
> 
> For info, the device looks like this in lsusb :
> 
> Device Descriptor:
>   bLength                18
>   bDescriptorType         1
>   bcdUSB               2.00
>   bDeviceClass            0 (Defined at Interface level)
>   bDeviceSubClass         0
>   bDeviceProtocol         0
>   bMaxPacketSize0        64
>   idVendor           0x04ca Lite-On Technology Corp.
>   idProduct          0xf001
>   bcdDevice            0.01
>   iManufacturer           1 SKGZ
>   iProduct                2 TvTUNER
>   iSerial                 0
>   bNumConfigurations      1
> 
> 
> 
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