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AVerMedia's DVB-S Pro (A700) Card

A DVB-S PCI card from AVerMedia.

It is currently unsupported under Linux, however, experimental drivers exist (see below for details).

Note: A hybrid version of the card also exists; see AVerTV DVB-S Hybrid+FM (A700)

Overview/Features

DVB-S input; svideo, composite input; IR input

Components Used

Zarlink ZL10036 (DVB-S Tuner) (i2c-addr: 0x60)
Zarlink ZL10313 (DVB-S Demodulator) (i2c-addr: 0x0e)
Philips SAA7135HL (PCI Bridge)
24CC02 (Serial EEPROM 2KBit) (i2c-addr: 0x50)

Identification

The output of lspci -vvnn reveals:

00:0b.0 Multimedia controller [0480]: Philips Semiconductors SAA7133/SAA7135 Video Broadcast Decoder [1131:7133] (rev d1)
        Subsystem: Avermedia Technologies Inc Unknown device [1461:a7a1]
        Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx-
        Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx-
        Latency: 32 (63750ns min, 63750ns max)
        Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 22
        Region 0: Memory at dfffb800 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=2K]
        Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 2
                Flags: PMEClk- DSI- D1+ D2+ AuxCurrent=0mA PME(D0-,D1-,D2-,D3hot-,D3cold-)
                Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=3 PME-

Making it Work

Firmware

Drivers

Experimental support for this card exists in LinuxTV. However, it seems the driver performs bad under some conditions (maybe related to weak signal).

Patches

Note: As noted above, support was merged into v4l-dvb repository on linuxtv, so there should be no need to apply these patches.

Driver from Zzam: Patch can be downloaded from here (take the a700_full_*.diff).
Driver from Tino: Patch can be downloaded from here

Driver Development Status

Analog part works (Composite, SVideo and audio in)
Needed: I2C sniff while tuning with working driver.
GPIO setting of windows driver (Detected with regspy):

GPMODE:   0x80040100
GPSTATUS: 0x0655a314 (changing)

This means it explicitly drives GPIO 8 and GPIO 18 high, and GPIO 31 low.

board init gpio values:
- Zzam (Pro): a600
- Eduard (Pro): 2f200
- Peter (Hybrid+FM): 6da00

eeprom content: The only bytes different from 0xff are
- subvendor/subdevice id at 0x00: 61 14 a1 a7
- 4 bytes at 0xe0: 00 01 81 af
- 2 bytes at 0xe4, differing between all cards
- cf dd (Zzam, Pro)
- d7 09 (Eduard, Pro)
- ea b5 (Peter, Hybrid+FM)
- fe f6 (bvidinli, Hybrid+FM)

GPIO table

List of known GPIOs.

GPIO 0-7: Input Parallel TS
GPIO 8: enable IR keyup events (unconfirmed, windows driver outputs 1 here)
GPIO 9: IR data (unconfirmed)
GPIO 10: IR keydown event (unconfirmed)
GPIO 12-15: IR data (unconfirmed)
GPIO 16: Input TS Valid
GPIO 17: IR data (unconfirmed)
GPIO 18: Reset PIN of analog tuner XC2028 (A700 DVB-S Hybrid+FM card only)
GPIO 19: Input TS Start of Packet
GPIO 21: Maybe needed for radio on A700 DVB-S Hybrid+FM; Comment from inf-file: Setting FM radio of the Silicon tuner via SIF (GPIO 21 in use/ 5.5MHz)
GPIO 23: Reset-PIN of demod (Setting it to input seems enough to keep demod out of reset)
GPIO 31: unknown (windows driver outputs 0 here)
The two output ports of the DVB-tuner (zl10036) (P0, P1) seem to be unusued.

Windows sets GPIOs 8, 18 and 31 as outputs (0x80040100) Initial GPIO read returns these GPIOs high value: 9, 10, 13, 15 (0xa600)

Sample kernel output

After passing the command modprobe saa7134 i2c_scan=1, the relevant output of from dmesg is as follows:

saa7133[0]: found at 0000:00:0b.0, rev: 209, irq: 22, latency: 32, mmio: 0xdfffb800
saa7133[0]: subsystem: 1461:a7a1, board: UNKNOWN/GENERIC [card=0,autodetected]
saa7133[0]: board init: gpio is a600
saa7133[0]: i2c eeprom 00: 61 14 a1 a7 ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
saa7133[0]: i2c eeprom 10: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
saa7133[0]: i2c eeprom 20: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff 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 ff ff ff ff ff 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
saa7133[0]: i2c eeprom 80: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
saa7133[0]: i2c eeprom 90: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
saa7133[0]: i2c eeprom a0: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
saa7133[0]: i2c eeprom b0: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
saa7133[0]: i2c eeprom c0: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
saa7133[0]: i2c eeprom d0: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
saa7133[0]: i2c eeprom e0: 00 01 81 af cf dd ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
saa7133[0]: i2c eeprom f0: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
saa7133[0]: i2c scan: found device @ 0x1c  [???]
saa7133[0]: i2c scan: found device @ 0xa0  [eeprom]
saa7133[0]: registered device video0 [v4l2]
saa7133[0]: registered device vbi0

Remote Control Support

External Links

@@ Line 1: / Line 1: @@
+[[Image:Avermedia A700 front.jpg|thumb|right|200px|AVerMedia's DVB-S Pro (A700) Card]]
-An [[DVB-S]] [[DVB-S PCI Cards|PCI card]] from [[AVerMedia]].
+A [[DVB-S]] [[DVB-S PCI Cards|PCI card]] from [[AVerMedia]].
-It is currently unsupported under Linux.
+It is currently unsupported under Linux, however, experimental drivers exist (see below for details).
+{{Note|A hybrid version of the card also exists; see [[AVerMedia AVerTV DVB-S Hybrid+FM (A700)|AVerTV DVB-S Hybrid+FM (A700)]]}}
-==Overview==
-* lspci -vvnn output looks like this:
+==Overview/Features==
+* DVB-S input; svideo, composite input; IR input
+===Components Used===
+* [[Zarlink Semiconductor|Zarlink]] [[Zarlink ZL10036|ZL10036]] (DVB-S Tuner) (i2c-addr: 0x60)
+* [[Zarlink Semiconductor|Zarlink]] [[Zarlink ZL10313|ZL10313]] (DVB-S Demodulator) (i2c-addr: 0x0e)
+* [[Philips Semiconductors|Philips]] [[Philips_SAA7134|SAA7135HL]] (PCI Bridge)
+* 24CC02 (Serial EEPROM 2KBit) (i2c-addr: 0x50)
+===Identification===
+The output of <code>lspci -vvnn</code> reveals:
 <pre>
 :0b.0 Multimedia controller [0480]: Philips Semiconductors SAA7133/SAA7135 Video Broadcast Decoder [1131:7133] (rev d1)
@@ Line 17: / Line 30: @@
                 Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=3 PME-
 </pre>
-* dmesg output of modprobe saa7134 i2c_scan=1:
+==Making it Work==
+===Firmware===
+===Drivers===
+Experimental support for this card exists in LinuxTV.
+However, it seems the driver performs bad under some conditions (maybe related to weak signal).
+====Patches====
+{{Note|As noted above, support was merged into v4l-dvb repository on linuxtv, so there should be no need to apply these patches.}}
+* Driver from Zzam: Patch can be downloaded from [http://dev.gentoo.org/~zzam/dvb/ here] (take the a700_full_*.diff).
+* Driver from Tino: Patch can be downloaded from [http://www.mcmilk.de/projects/dvb-card/patches/ here]
+====Driver Development Status====
+* Analog part works (Composite, SVideo and audio in)
+* Needed: I2C sniff while tuning with working driver.
+* GPIO setting of windows driver (Detected with regspy):
+<pre>
+GPMODE:   0x80040100
+GPSTATUS: 0x0655a314 (changing)
+</pre>
+This means it explicitly drives GPIO 8 and GPIO 18 high, and GPIO 31 low.
+* board init gpio values:
+** Zzam (Pro): a600
+** Eduard (Pro): 2f200
+** Peter (Hybrid+FM): 6da00
+* eeprom content: The only bytes different from 0xff are
+** subvendor/subdevice id at 0x00: 61 14 a1 a7
+** 4 bytes at 0xe0: 00 01 81 af
+** 2 bytes at 0xe4, differing between all cards
+** cf dd (Zzam, Pro)
+** d7 09 (Eduard, Pro)
+** ea b5 (Peter, Hybrid+FM)
+** fe f6 (bvidinli, Hybrid+FM)
+====GPIO table====
+List of known GPIOs.
+* GPIO 0-7: Input Parallel TS
+* GPIO 8: enable IR keyup events (unconfirmed, windows driver outputs 1 here)
+* GPIO 9: IR data (unconfirmed)
+* GPIO 10: IR keydown event (unconfirmed)
+* GPIO 12-15: IR data (unconfirmed)
+* GPIO 16: Input TS Valid
+* GPIO 17: IR data (unconfirmed)
+* GPIO 18: Reset PIN of analog tuner XC2028 (A700 DVB-S Hybrid+FM card only)
+* GPIO 19: Input TS Start of Packet
+* GPIO 21: Maybe needed for radio on A700 DVB-S Hybrid+FM; Comment from inf-file: Setting FM radio of the Silicon tuner via SIF (GPIO 21 in use/ 5.5MHz)
+* GPIO 23: Reset-PIN of demod (Setting it to input seems enough to keep demod out of reset)
+* GPIO 31: unknown (windows driver outputs 0 here)
+* The two output ports of the DVB-tuner (zl10036) (P0, P1) seem to be unusued.
+Windows sets GPIOs 8, 18 and 31 as outputs (0x80040100)
+Initial GPIO read returns these GPIOs high value: 9, 10, 13, 15 (0xa600)
+===Sample kernel output===
+After passing the command <code>modprobe saa7134 i2c_scan=1</code>, the relevant output of from <code>dmesg</code> is as follows:
 <pre>
-Linux video capture interface: v2.00
-saa7130/34: v4l2 driver version 0.2.14 loaded
 saa7133[0]: found at 0000:00:0b.0, rev: 209, irq: 22, latency: 32, mmio: 0xdfffb800
 saa7133[0]: subsystem: 1461:a7a1, board: UNKNOWN/GENERIC [card=0,autodetected]
 saa7133[0]: board init: gpio is a600
-Device driver i2c-3 lacks bus and class support for being resumed.
 saa7133[0]: i2c eeprom 00: 61 14 a1 a7 ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
 saa7133[0]: i2c eeprom 10: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
@@ Line 43: / Line 112: @@
 saa7133[0]: i2c scan: found device @ 0x1c  [???]
 saa7133[0]: i2c scan: found device @ 0xa0  [eeprom]
-Device driver video0 lacks bus and class support for being resumed.
 saa7133[0]: registered device video0 [v4l2]
-Device driver vbi0 lacks bus and class support for being resumed.
 saa7133[0]: registered device vbi0
 </pre>
+===Remote Control Support===
-==Components Used==
-* [[Zarlink Semiconductor|Zarlink]] [[Zarlink ZL10036|ZL10036]] (DVB-S Tuner) (i2c-addr: 0x60)
-* [[Zarlink Semiconductor|Zarlink]] [[Zarlink ZL10313|ZL10313]] (DVB-S Demodulator) (i2c-addr: 0x0e)
-* [[Philips Semiconductors|Philips]] [[Philips_SAA7134|SAA7135HL]] (PCI Bridge)
-* 24CC02 (Serial EEPROM 2KBit) (i2c-addr: 0x50)
-==Driver Development Status==
-* Analog part works (Composite, SVideo and audio in)
-* Needed: I2C sniff while tuning with working driver.
-* GPIO setting of windows driver (Detected with regspy):
-<pre>
-GPMODE:   0x80040100
-GPSTATUS: 0x0655a314 (changing)
-</pre>
-==GPIO table==
-List of known GPIOs.
-* GPIO 0-7: Input Parallel TS
-* GPIO 16: Input TS Valid
-* GPIO 19: Input TS Start of Packet
-* GPIO 23: Reset-PIN of demod (Setting it to input seems enough to keep demod out of reset)
-* The two output ports of the tuner (P0, P1) seem to be unusued.
 ==External Links==
-* [http://www.avermedia.de/cgi-bin/products_digitvtuner_dvbspro.asp?show=1 AVerMedia product page]
+* [http://www.avermedia.com/avertv/DE/Product/ProductDetail.aspx?Id=294 AVerMedia DVB-S Pro product page]
-* [http://www.mcmilk.de/projects/dvb-card/ One try to create a driver and more Infos]
+* [http://www.mcmilk.de/projects/dvb-card/ Tino's page about his driver and more Infos about A700 card]
-* [http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.video.video4linux/35700 Patch for using the analog part of the card]
+* [http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.video.video4linux/35700 Announcement of analog only patch for Pro-version]
+[[Category:DVB-S PCI Cards]]

AVerMedia AVerTV DVB-S Pro (A700): Difference between revisions

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Contents

Overview/Features

Components Used

Identification

Making it Work

Firmware

Drivers

Patches

Driver Development Status

GPIO table

Sample kernel output

Remote Control Support

External Links

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AVerMedia AVerTV DVB-S Pro (A700): Difference between revisions

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Overview/Features

Components Used

Identification

Making it Work

Firmware

Drivers

Patches

Driver Development Status

GPIO table

Sample kernel output

Remote Control Support

External Links

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