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   xperia64: I'm trying to tune to completely analog NTSC channel 3 on a Hauppauge WinTV-HVR-1250, and I can't seem to expose it as a proper analog tuner. I'm currently trying to recompile the kernel with MT2131_NO_ANALOG_SUPPORT_YET set as I've seen no kernel changes indicating MT2131 ever received analog support. Is there anything else I should try?
   <br> Hmm, the TDA tuner is picked up, but refuses to tune
   <br> If blacklisting DVB from the card doesn't work, I'll just have to try passing it through to a Windows 7 VM.
   <br> "tuner: 1-0042: Tuner has no way to set tv freq"
   b-rad: well it definitely won't work because nothing ever sets up the analog_fe
   <br> whether or not it would work with that done, unsure, but I don't see set_analog_params in it's tuner driver[s]
   xperia64: If I'm bored and have a logic analyzer handy I'll see if I can make this work. I got it working with my PCI passthrough Win7 VM, but only with the obnoxious WinTV and Media Center software.
   <br> VLC won't pick up the analog half on Windows either, and DScaler doesn't support this card.
   b-rad: i can query if we have analog code hidden and forgotten about somewhere
   <br> although, if its not in the windows driver it's doubtful
   xperia64: The official Windows driver does support it, but VLC can't see it. I don't know of any other Windows tuner software to try.
   b-rad: i'll inquire
   xperia64: I wasn't sure if this was more appropriate for this or #v4l, since the MT2131 DVB driver comment implies it could support analog
   b-rad: could is a very loose statement
   xperia64: Yeah, didn't really make sense to me. I thought the MT2131 was strictly digital-related.
   b-rad: TUNER_TYPE is tda8290
   <br> that driver just lacks analog
   <br> so the mt2131 driver is also probably missing stuff
   xperia64: Huh. The two drivers that popped up under dmesg were tda827x and tda9887.
   b-rad: i'm just reading the board profile
   iive: aren't all tunes analog?
   b-rad: in the driver
   iive: tuners
   b-rad: i'm unfamiliar with the demods and tuners i see for that board
   xperia64: There's a tda8290 driver file in my kernel tree, but that didn't seem to load at all.
   b-rad: well unless i'm looking at the wrong hvr-1250, that driver is what is enabled by defining MT2131_NO_ANALOG_SUPPORT_YET
   xperia64: I'll run lsmod again to be sure
   b-rad: if it's not i'd take a look at he cx23885 source code and ensure you're actually enabling the option if you wanna try it
   xperia64: Ok, it is loaded. Relevant dmesg: https://pastebin.com/iwbwSb2X
   <br> These tda drivers are loaded: tda827x, tda9887, tda8290, and tda18271
   <br> Oh hey, VLC may have picked it up.
   <br> It's still complaining about not being able to change frequency, but I'm getting noise I'm fairly certain is from the RF port
   <br> Ok, it can't tune, but it's stuck on channel 3 for now, which kind of works.
   <br> Sound works, but not with VLC as it's trying to open hw:2,0 as a file for whatever reason