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   hitech95: I would add support for a tuner that I own. But I'm facing some issues and Iwould like to know how to proceed!
   <br> How can I know hot to setup the gpios, and which gpios to set as input/output?
   <br> The controller IS a SAA7162, the board have 4 tuners. I should be able to map the video port and the fgpi interface for each adapter. But I have no idea on how to do that.
   <br> Any nput is welcome :D
   <br> The tv card is the Pinnacle PCTV 7010iX, there was a patch but seems like it has been lost or never published.
   <br> no one here?
   mchehab: <u>hitech95</u>: sometimes, the .inf file may have some information
   <br> another alternative would be to listen to the control traffic at the USB (or PCI) bus
   <br> that's said, never worked with saa7162 chipset... so dunno any specifics
   hitech95: Yea, looks like a nightmare. I'm new with this kind of stuff. I generally do OpenWRT porting
   KitsuWhooa: the way I've done it for other cards is I've looked at similar cards and copied config and a lot of trial and error
   <br> just make sure you get the tuner right
   hitech95: Unfortunatly this cards serie are not supported. Due to the main chip
   <br> (the driver is not in mainline)
   KitsuWhooa: and maybe backup the eeprom because I accidentally once wrote to the wrong i2c address and that nuked the eeprom data, "bricking" the card
   <br> ah
   hitech95: I'm making an attempt, i have 4 of thoose quad tuner cards DVB-T+DVB-S
   KitsuWhooa: There seems to be support for SAA716x in the kernel according to the linuxtv wiki
   <br> so I thin it should be a matter of adding the pci ids so that the driver can recognise the card, and then some trial and error
   <br> Assuming there's a driver for the dvb-t/s chip
   hitech95: AFIK there is a not upstreamed driver on github. (The one i'm using. I might me wrong. But looking for saa7162 on the mainline none comes out)
   <br> Anyway teh card is this: https://www.linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php/Pinnacle_PCTV_7010iX
   <br> The chips (Mod+Tuner are all supported)
   <br> So the only missing stuff is the glue logic...
   KitsuWhooa: have a look at ./drivers/media/pci/saa7164
   <br> actually no
   <br> nevermind, I thought that was the driver
   <br> yeah looks like it wasn't upstreamed
   <br> "The Saa7164 driver does not support the Saa7160/61/62 chips." my mistake
   hitech95: I have to figure out the i2c addresses of the tuners+mods, the i2c busses used (there are two), the gpios, and then the actual VIDEO port and DMA mapping. One step a time. :D
   <br> NP :D
   <br> I'm a noob so I could also be wrong.
   KitsuWhooa: maybe a remote chance, but you might be able to get some information using dscaler on windows with the official driver
   <br> there's a program called regspy (I think) that can read registers off some of the saa cards
   <br> not sure if yours is supported, but might be worth a look
   hitech95: I'll try. Hoping that I can find a old windows server disk. (The card is installed on my old Dell 1950 not sure if win10 can boot on that)
   KitsuWhooa: https://tasossah.com/saa_analog.jpg this is the kind of data you can expect if it is supported
   hitech95: Cool, i'll try that if I cannot find out the gpios. The Satellite section of the pcb have a lot of glue logic/power regulators. Looks like that it can power the LNB there are 2x 3Amp power reulators!