AVerMedia AVerTV DVB-S Pro (A700)

Avermedia DVB-S Pro (A700) Card

A DVB-S PCI card from AVerMedia.

It comes in two different version (DVB-S Pro and DVB-S Hybrid+FM).

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

Overview

• DVB-S Pro version:
  • DVB-S input; svideo, composite input; IR input
  • lspci -vvnn output:

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-

• • dmesg output of modprobe saa7134 i2c_scan=1:

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

• DVB-S Hybrid+FM version:
  • DVB-S input; svideo, composite input; analog RF input; IR input
  • lspci -vvnn output:

02:07.0 Multimedia controller [0480]: Philips Semiconductors SAA7133/SAA7135 Video Broadcast Decoder [1131:7133] (rev d1)
        Subsystem: Avermedia Technologies Inc Unknown device [1461:a7a2]
        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: 64 (63750ns min, 63750ns max)
        Interrupt: pin A Route to IRQ 18
        Region 0: Memory at d3024000 (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-

• • dmesg output of modprobe saa7134 i2c_scan=1:

saa7133[0]: found at 0000:02:07.0, rev: 209, irq: 18, latency: 64, mmio: 0xd3024000
saa7133[0]: subsystem: 1461:a7a2, board: UNKNOWN/GENERIC [card=0,autodetected]
saa7133[0]: board init: gpio is 6da00
saa7133[0]: i2c eeprom 00: 61 14 a2 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 d7 09 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

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)
• Xceive XC2028 (Analog Tuner) (i2c-addr: unknown) (DVB-S Hybrid+FM only)

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)

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

• eeprom content, 6 bytes at addr 0xe0:
  • Zzam (Pro): 00 01 81 af cf dd
  • Eduard (Pro): 00 01 81 af d7 09
  • Peter (Hybrid+FM): 00 01 81 af ea b5

Patches

These patches are available to use the card. All are based on latest sources from the hg-tree.

You can apply only one (!) of these patches.

• Enable analog just the analog part of the card: a700_analog_patch

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

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

• AVerMedia product page of Pro version
• AverMedia product page of Hybrid+FM version
• Tino's page about his driver and more Infos about A700 card
• Announcement of analog only patch for Pro-version