Archived:AVerMedia AVerTV Hybrid+FM Cardbus (E506R)-V4L

AVerMedia TV+FM CardBus E506R

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AVermedia released their card with binary only driver for Mandriva and FC3/4. For ancient kernels of course. Due to licensing from chip vendor and the fact that AVerMedia is a proud GPL violator -- they do not bother publishing source for their driver that is actually based on V4L.

Looking inside the card we can see that it is:

- Philips SAA7135HL PCI Audio/Video Broadcast Decoder - Xceive XC3028 Silicon Tuner - Zarlink MT352 Digital Terrestrial TV Demodulator

So...

Excuse me for beeing dumb and stupid, but I just took Marcus' code for Em2880 from his repository at http://linuxtv.org/hg/~mrechberger/v4l-dvb

And added XC3028 tuner defintion to SAA7134 code, leaving gpio initialization as for AverMedia E500 card.

Guess what? It worked :)

Screenshot is here

Dmesg follows:

Linux video capture interface: v1.00
em28xx v4l2 driver version 0.0.1 loaded
usbcore: registered new driver em28xx
/home/lesha/dev/e506r/v4l-dvb/v4l/mt2060-tuner.c: mt2060_module_init
saa7130/34: v4l2 driver version 0.2.14 loaded
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:03:00.0[A] -> Link [LNKB] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ 11
saa7133[0]: found at 0000:03:00.0, rev: 209, irq: 11, latency: 64, mmio: 0x58000000
saa7133[0]: subsystem: 1461:f436, board: AVerMedia Cardbus TV/Radio (E506) [card=99,insmod option]
saa7133[0]: board init: gpio is effffff
tuner 0-0061: chip found @ 0xc2 (saa7133[0])
xc3028-tuner.c: only analogue and DVB-T are supported at the moment
saa7133[0]: i2c eeprom 00: 61 14 36 f4 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
saa7133[0]: i2c eeprom 10: 00 ff e2 0e ff 20 ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
saa7133[0]: i2c eeprom 20: 01 40 01 02 02 01 01 03 08 ff 00 ff ff ff ff ff
saa7133[0]: i2c eeprom 30: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
saa7133[0]: i2c eeprom 40: ff 65 00 ff c2 1e ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
saa7133[0]: i2c eeprom 50: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
saa7133[0]: i2c eeprom 60: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
saa7133[0]: i2c eeprom 70: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
xc3028-tuner.c: selected videostandard PAL-B/G
xc3028-tuner.c: ANALOG Mode!
xc3028-tuner.c: loading new firmware
xc3028-tuner.c: Successfully loaded Firmware: 1027
xc3028-tuner.c: V4L2_STD_PAL
xc3028-tuner.c: V4L2_STD_PAL
saa7133[0]: registered device video0 [v4l2]
saa7133[0]: registered device vbi0
saa7133[0]: registered device radio0
saa7134 ALSA driver for DMA sound loaded
saa7133[0]/alsa: saa7133[0] at 0x58000000 irq 11 registered as card -1

The patches (dirty way, sorry, I'm not a programmer)

--- v4l-dvb/linux/drivers/media/video/saa7134/saa7134.h   2006-10-18 06:10:22.000000000 +0400
+++ /home/lesha/saa7134.h       2006-10-18 06:09:20.000000000 +0400
@@ -229,6 +229,8 @@
 #define SAA7134_BOARD_ELSA_700TV       89
 #define SAA7134_BOARD_KWORLD_ATSC110   90

+#define SAA7134_BOARD_AVERMEDIA_CARDBUS_506    99
+
 #define SAA7134_MAXBOARDS 8
 #define SAA7134_INPUT_MAX 8

--- saa7134-cards.c.org 2006-10-18 06:10:22.000000000 +0400
+++ saa7134-cards.c     2006-10-18 06:45:23.000000000 +0400
@@ -1591,6 +1591,33 @@ struct saa7134_board saa7134_boards[] =
                        .amux = LINE1,
                },
        },
+        [SAA7134_BOARD_AVERMEDIA_CARDBUS_506] = {
+                /* Kees.Blom@cwi.nl */
+                .name           = "AVerMedia Cardbus TV/Radio (E506R)",
+                .audio_clock    = 0x187de7,
+                .tuner_type     = TUNER_XCEIVE_XC3028,
+                .radio_type     = UNSET,
+                .tuner_addr     = ADDR_UNSET,
+                .radio_addr     = ADDR_UNSET,
+                .inputs         = {{
+                        .name = name_tv,
+                        .vmux = 1,
+                        .amux = TV,
+                        .tv   = 1,
+                },{
+                        .name = name_comp1,
+                        .vmux = 3,
+                        .amux = LINE2,
+                },{
+                        .name = name_svideo,
+                        .vmux = 8,
+                        .amux = LINE1,
+                }},
+                .radio = {
+                        .name = name_radio,
+                        .amux = LINE1,
+                },
+        },
        [SAA7134_BOARD_CINERGY400_CARDBUS] = {
                .name           = "Terratec Cinergy 400 mobile",
                .audio_clock    = 0x187de7,
@@ -3002,6 +3029,13 @@ struct pci_device_id saa7134_pci_tbl[] =
                .subdevice    = 0xd6ee,
                .driver_data  = SAA7134_BOARD_AVERMEDIA_CARDBUS,
        },{
+                /* AVerMedia CardBus E506R */
+                .vendor       = PCI_VENDOR_ID_PHILIPS,
+                .device       = PCI_DEVICE_ID_PHILIPS_SAA7134,
+                .subvendor    = 0x1461, /* Avermedia Technologies Inc */
+                .subdevice    = 0xf436,
+                .driver_data  = SAA7134_BOARD_AVERMEDIA_CARDBUS_506,
+        },{
                /* TransGear 3000TV */
                .vendor       = PCI_VENDOR_ID_PHILIPS,
                .device       = PCI_DEVICE_ID_PHILIPS_SAA7130,
@@ -3435,6 +3469,7 @@ int saa7134_board_init1(struct saa7134_d
                saa_writeb(SAA7134_GPIO_GPSTATUS3, 0x00);
                break;
        case SAA7134_BOARD_AVERMEDIA_CARDBUS:
+        case SAA7134_BOARD_AVERMEDIA_CARDBUS_506:
                /* power-up tuner chip */
                saa_andorl(SAA7134_GPIO_GPMODE0 >> 2,   0xffffffff, 0xffffffff);
                saa_andorl(SAA7134_GPIO_GPSTATUS0 >> 2, 0xffffffff, 0xffffffff);

Also you should use saa7134-tvaudio.c patch from AVerMedia_Cardbus_Plus_E501R if we need SECAM sound.

So... someone, please assign E506R valid card id insted 99, cleanup and include this code to the tree, etc.

Respect товарищу Hayova за 501R ;)))