AOpen LR351

A hybrid ATSC miniPCI device from AOpen

It's digital side is unsupported. A patch providing support for its analog side exists; see this thread

Overview/Features

This card is evidently an OEM version of a LifeView product (not listed on LifeView's website).

Components Used

Underneath the device's heatsink/shield, one finds the following ICs:

• Phillips 8275A (tuner)
• ATI Theater 312 (digital demodulator)
• Phillips SAA7131E (analog demodulator and A/V decoder)
• Philips (?) LV4052 (audio signal routing)

Making it Work

Sample Kernel Output

dmesg output when setting the tuner to type 54 yeilds:

kernel: saa7133[0]: found at 0000:00:0a.0, rev: 209, irq: 23, latency: 32, mmio: 0xf6023000
kernel: saa7133[0]: subsystem: 4e42:0351, board: UNKNOWN/GENERIC [card=0,autodetected]
kernel: saa7133[0]: board init: gpio is 810000
kernel: tuner 3-004b: chip found @ 0x96 (saa7133[0])
kernel: tuner 3-004b: setting tuner address to 61
kernel: tuner 3-004b: type set to tda8290+75a
kernel: tuner 3-004b: setting tuner address to 61
kernel: tuner 3-004b: type set to tda8290+75a
kernel: saa7133[0]: i2c eeprom 00: 42 4e 51 03 54 20 1c 00 43 43 a9 1c 55 d2 b2 92
kernel: saa7133[0]: i2c eeprom 10: ff ff ff 0f ff 20 ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
kernel: saa7133[0]: i2c eeprom 20: 01 40 01 03 03 01 01 03 08 ff 01 aa ff ff ff ff
kernel: saa7133[0]: i2c eeprom 30: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
kernel: saa7133[0]: i2c eeprom 40: ff 84 00 c2 96 14 05 21 16 0d 15 17 ff ff ff ff
kernel: saa7133[0]: i2c eeprom 50: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
kernel: saa7133[0]: i2c eeprom 60: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
kernel: saa7133[0]: i2c eeprom 70: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
kernel: saa7133[0]: i2c scan: found device @ 0x14  [???]
kernel: saa7133[0]: i2c scan: found device @ 0x96  [???]
kernel: saa7133[0]: i2c scan: found device @ 0xa0  [eeprom]
kernel: saa7133[0]: registered device video2 [v4l2]
kernel: saa7133[0]: registered device vbi2

External Links

• AOpen product page (scroll to near page bottom)
• ATI Theater 31x info