[linux-dvb] Re: can't get nexus-s or dvb-s to work

[Honza Petrous <hop@unibase.cz>]

 Johan,

On St, 2002-08-21 at 11:23, johan wrote:
> 
> Pluged in the nexus-s
> 
> Installed the 0.9.4 drivers and loaded the modules. everything seems to
> work. Me happy... but...
> 

You don't want to tune to something if you have pointed you plate
to Astra. Then you should hear (and see) FTA TV station n-TV
on A/V analog outputs.

> Now i've tried to tune to a frequency.
> 
> dvbtune is returning:
> 
> node1:/download/test/DVB# dvbtune -f 100000
> ERROR setting tone
> : Invalid argument
> tuning DVB-S to L-Band:100000, Pol: Srate=0, 22kHz=off
> SEC BUS MODE:  IDLE (0)
> SEC VOLTAGE:  13  (2)
> SEC CONT TONE: ON
> Getting frontend event
> Received failure event
> Getting frontend event
> Received failure event
> Getting frontend event
> Received failure event
> Not able to lock to the signal on the given frequency
> 

Try a simpler tool - "szap" which is packed with DVB drivers.
I have similar problems with tuning until I figured out that
dvbtune doesn't work for me.

> 
> Linux video capture interface: v1.00
> i2c-core.o: driver VES1893 DVB demodulator registered.
> i2c-core.o: driver VES1820 DVB demodulator registered.
> i2c-core.o: driver L64781 DVB demodulator registered.
> init_SP8870:
> i2c-core.o: driver SP8870 DVB demodulator registered.
> i2c-core.o: driver tda8083 DVB demodulator registered.
> i2c-core.o: driver stv0299 DVB demodulator registered.
> i2c-core.o: driver i2c TV tuner driver registered.
> saa7146_core.o: saa7146(1): bus:0, rev:1, mem:0xd0888e00.
> SP8870: no SP8870 found ...
> i2c-core.o: client [stv0299] registered to adapter [saa7146(1)](pos. 0).
> tuner: chip found @ 0x61
> i2c-core.o: client [i2c tv tuner chip] registered to adapter
> [saa7146(1)](pos. 1).
> i2c-core.o: adapter saa7146(1) registered as adapter 0.
> dvb0: AV7110 - firm 5b20d0d2, rtsl 1000d0dd, vid e0d00003, app 00000000
> dvb: 1 dvb(s) found!
> 

It look good for me.


> node1:/download/test/DVB/driver# lsmod
> Module                  Size  Used by    Tainted: P  
> dvb                   236672   0 
> dvb_frontend            3584   0  [dvb]
> dvb_demux              13792   1  [dvb]
> saa7146_v4l            14724   0  (unused)
> saa7146_core           13312   0  [dvb saa7146_v4l]
> tuner                   4292   1 
> stv0299                 2720   1 
> tda8083                 1824   0  (unused)
> SP8870                  2464   0  (unused)
> L64781                  3424   0  (unused)
> VES1820                 3264   0  (unused)
> VES1893                 3456   0  (unused)
> dmxdev                  8436   1  [dvb]
> dvb_filter              7232   0  [dvb]
> videodev                4992   1  [dvb]
> i2c-core               13248   0  [dvb dvb_frontend saa7146_core tuner
> stv0299 tda8083 SP8870 L64781 VES1820 VES1893]
> dvb_net                 2784   0  [dvb]
> dvbdev                  1632   1  [dvb]
> 

It looks good either.

/Honza



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