AVerMedia AVerTV Hybrid+FM PCI (A16D)

Avermedia

AVerMedia AverTV Hybrid+FM PCI A16D

Info

Avermedia offers two "Hybrid+FM PCI" cards that, unlike their names, feature different tuner chipset;

• model A16AR has a good support in v4l and some bynary driver from Driver download page
• model A16D has no support in v4l and no binary or source linux driver from the Driver download page.

Looking on the card we can find:

• Philips SAA7135HL PCI Audio/Video Broadcast Decoder
• Xceive XC3018 Silicon Tuner File:Xc3018.jpg
• Zarlink MT352 Digital Terrestrial TV Demodulator

Xceive XC3018 is a pared-down version of XC3028. XC3018 supports NTSC, PAL, SECAM analog TV standards and DVB-T digital TV standard only. XC3028 supports all analog TV standards:

• NTSC,
• PAL,
• SECAM,
• CVBS,
• SIF and audio output

and all digital TV standards

• ATSC,
• DVB-T,
• ISDB-T,
• DMB-T,
• DVB-C.

Also it seems that the card is quite similar to the Cardbus version (E506R).

Analogue TV seems to work already, but without [audio].

Remote can be enabled as well: see remote controller section in this wiki.

Installation

As for the (E506R) there's some experimental code in

http://linuxtv.org/hg/~mrechberger/v4l-dvb-kernel

   $ hg clone http://linuxtv.org/hg/~mrechberger/v4l-dvb-kernel
   $ cd v4l-dvb-kernel/v4l

and in a newer repository

http://mcentral.de/hg/~mrec/v4l-dvb-experimental/

   $ hg clone http://mcentral.de/hg/~mrec/v4l-dvb-experimental/
   $ cd v4l-dvb-experimental/v4l

Adding A16D driver

A16D Definition has been added to the above v4l-dvb-kernel tree by Markus, so please jump to the [install] section!!

building and installing

   $ make
   $ make install

Unfortunately with Fedora core 6 modules are installed in /usr/src/2.6.xxxx/kernel/ while modprobe looks for updated modules in /usr/src/2.6.xxxx/updates/. Maybe you need to give the correct path as an install options; by now I simply copied patched modules over the old ones.

As stated in this thread create /etc/modprobe.d/saa7134 containing:

   options saa7134 card=105 alsa=1 tuner=71
   install saa7134 /sbin/modprobe xc3028-tuner; /sbin/modprobe --ignore-install saa7134; /sbin/modprobe saa7134-dvb; /sbin/modprobe saa7134-alsa

(card=114 in case of using http://mcentral.de/hg/~mrec/v4l-dvb-experimental/)

Remember that things don't work if you load saa7134 before xc3028-tuner.

installing firmware

Install firmware for the XC3028 as reported for the em2880

Firmware ver.3 and 4 worked with my card.

trying to let FM to work, you will get an error as reported by Damir:

   ..........
   [78693.955561] upload_firmware, Loading specific radio firmware: 
   xc3028_specific_radio.fw
   [78693.963196] Loading configuration from file failed!

Radio's firmware is called by xc3028-tuner module, but it is not actually provided with the above firmware installation.

I did some testing trying to extract firmware from windows drivers, but with no luck.

loading modules

Load modules with :

   $ modprobe saa7134

Modules will also get loaded automatically at boot time.

Dvb-t

Digital terrestrial is not working at the moment: to implement this probably need adding xc3028+mt352 definition to saa7134-dvb module.

Audio and FM

Thanks Damir, I was adviced:

   TV works fine (except a fact that the sound must be processed with something 
   like 'arecord -D hw:2,0 -r 32000 -c 2 -f S16_LE | sox -q -c 2 -r 32000 -w -t 
   wav - -t alsa hw:0,0'), but FM radio doesn't.

I will investigate the above, but until now I'm not able to have TV audio nor FM from speakers!  :-( Help's wellcome!! See also saa7134-alsa.

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cool so audio also works with it! FM needs an extra firmware which isn't implemented for your device so you won't have any luck with it.

MarkusRechberger 22:26, 10 March 2007 (CET)

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Thanks to SunnyBUG, the autor of the original article "CARDBUS Hybrid TV FM (E506R)" from which most of this was taken.

You can find the translated Italian version Here

--Lucarasp 13:47, 23 February 2007 (CET) Link title