Pinnacle PCTV (310i)

Pinnacle

The Pinnacle PCTV 310i is a DVB-T-ready analogue/digital internal TV tuner card, with remote control.

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Card features

• PCI Rev. 2.3 interface
• Video/audio decoder: Philips SAA7133 (datasheet)
• Analog demodulator: TDA 9887 (datasheet)
• TV tuner: Microtune MT2050 (datasheet)
• DVB-T demodulator: Zarlink MT352, (datasheet)

Card connectors

• TV signal: IEC connector (PAL/SECAM)
• Video Inputs: S-Video, Composite Video (RCA socket via adaptor)
• Audio Outputs: Internal 4 pin header 2.8 mm (to sound board; only required for analogue TV)
• IR-Remote input: 2.5 mm stereo socket

lspci -v

02:0e.0 Multimedia controller: Philips Semiconductors SAA7133 Video Broadcast Decoder (rev d0)
       Subsystem: Pinnacle Systems Inc. Unknown device 002f
       Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 4
       Memory at eb000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=2K]
       Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 2

Module Options

the card is not autodetected, load the module with:

  modprobe saa7134 card=77

Kernel output

saa7133[0]: found at 0000:02:0e.0, rev: 208, irq: 4, latency: 32, mmio: 0xeb000000
saa7133[0]: subsystem: 11bd:002f, board: Pinnacle PCTV 40i/50i/110i (saa7133) [card=77,insmod option]
saa7133[0]: board init: gpio is 600e000
input: Pinnacle PCTV as /class/input/input2
ir-kbd-i2c: Pinnacle PCTV detected at i2c-1/1-0047/ir0 [saa7133[0]]
saa7133[0]: i2c eeprom read error (err=-5)
tuner 1-004b: chip found @ 0x96 (saa7133[0])
tuner 1-004b: setting tuner address to 61
tuner 1-004b: type set to tda8290+75a
saa7133[0]: registered device video0 [v4l2]
saa7133[0]: registered device vbi0
saa7133[0]: registered device radio0

Note

Only work analogue tv, not digital.
Only FM Radio with tuner=38.

Links

• PCTV 310i Product homepage - general info from Pinnacle about the product
• Pinnacle PCTV 310i datasheet