[linux-dvb] problems with a satelco easy watch dvb-c

[Guillaume Membré]

Any suggestions ?

Thanks
Guillaume

On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 1:58 AM, Guillaume Membré
<guillaume.ml at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
>  I finally found that unplugging and plugging my pci card suppresses
>  the kernel errors.
>
>  However, I didn't find any channels with an initial tuning file for my
>  cable provider in France so I tried w_scan and it didn't find anything
>  either.
>  $ w_scan -fc
>  w_scan version 20080105
>  Info: using DVB adapter auto detection.
>    Found DVB-C frontend. Using adapter /dev/dvb/adapter0/frontend0
>  -_-_-_-_ Getting frontend capabilities-_-_-_-_
>  frontend Philips TDA10023 DVB-C supports
>  INVERSION_AUTO
>  QAM_AUTO not supported, trying QAM_64 and QAM_256.
>  FEC_AUTO
>  -_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_
>  50500:
>  [.....]
>  858000:
>  ERROR: Sorry - i couldn't get any working frequency/transponder
>   Nothing to scan!!
>
> dumping lists (0 services)
>  Done.
>
>  Under windows, the program shipped with my card found 85 channels and it works.
>
>  what's wrong ? please help !
>  Guillaume
>
>
>
>
>  On Feb 15, 2008 11:02 PM, Guillaume Membré <guillaume.ml at gmail.com> wrote:
>  > Hello,
>  >
>  > I'm trying to setup a Satelco easy watch dvb-c but it doesn't work :
>  > when doing a scan with the following command :
>  > $ scan fr-noos-numericable
>  > scanning fr-noos-numericable
>  > using '/dev/dvb/adapter0/frontend0' and '/dev/dvb/adapter0/demux0'
>  > initial transponder 147000000 6875000 0 3
>  > >>> tune to: 147000000:INVERSION_AUTO:6875000:FEC_NONE:QAM_64
>  > WARNING: >>> tuning failed!!!
>  > >>> tune to: 147000000:INVERSION_AUTO:6875000:FEC_NONE:QAM_64 (tuning failed)
>  > WARNING: >>> tuning failed!!!
>  > ERROR: initial tuning failed
>  > dumping lists (0 services)
>  > Done.
>  >
>  > the kernel shows the following errors :
>  > DVB: TDA10023(0): tda10023_writereg, writereg error (reg == 0x10, val
>  > == 0x00, ret == -512)
>  > DVB: TDA10023: tda10023_readreg: readreg error (ret == -512)
>  >
>  > and it doesn't find any channels as it should. I have a set top box
>  > from my cable provider which works fine with this tuning frequencie.
>  >
>  > I'm running debian unstable with a 2.6.24.2 kernel.
>  > Here is the initialization of the card :
>  >
>  > PCI: Found IRQ 10 for device 0000:00:0e.0
>  > saa7146: found saa7146 @ mem f88d2000 (revision 1, irq 10) (0x1894,0x002c).
>  > saa7146 (0): dma buffer size 192512
>  > DVB: registering new adapter (Satelco EasyWatch DVB-C MK3)
>  > adapter failed MAC signature check
>  > encoded MAC from EEPROM was
>  > ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
>  > via-rhine.c:v1.10-LK1.4.3 2007-03-06 Written by Donald Becker
>  > KNC1-0: MAC addr = 00:09:d6:6d:a5:0b
>  > DVB: registering frontend 0 (Philips TDA10023 DVB-C)...
>  > budget-av: ci interface initialised.
>  >
>  > and the result of lsmod :
>  > lsmod
>  > Module                  Size  Used by
>  > nfs                   116076  1
>  > lockd                  59784  1 nfs
>  > sunrpc                155164  8 nfs,lockd
>  > fglrx                1479212  18
>  > sr_mod                 14116  0
>  > sd_mod                 20880  0
>  > 8250                   19700  0
>  > serial_core            16640  1 8250
>  > tda10023                5764  1
>  > via_rhine              19464  0
>  > mii                     4480  1 via_rhine
>  > budget_av              17792  0
>  > saa7146_vv             44288  1 budget_av
>  > videobuf_dma_sg        11012  1 saa7146_vv
>  > videobuf_core          14340  2 saa7146_vv,videobuf_dma_sg
>  > budget_core             8452  1 budget_av
>  > dvb_core               70396  2 budget_av,budget_core
>  > saa7146                14984  3 budget_av,saa7146_vv,budget_core
>  > ttpci_eeprom            2176  1 budget_core
>  > via_agp                 8064  1
>  > agpgart                26288  2 fglrx,via_agp
>  > evdev                   8576  1
>  >
>  > what's wrong ? where is my error ?
>  > thanks a lot for your help
>  >
>  > Guillaume
>  >
>