AVerMedia AVerTV DVB-T Super 007

AVerTV DVB-T Super 007

The AVerMedia AVerTV DVB-T Super 007 is a hybrid DVB-T PCI card from AVerMedia. The card is supported on Linux. However, the IR receiver may still need a patch.

Overview/features

The card has Antenna In and IR receiver inputs, and comes with a remote control.

Components used

• Philips 8275AC1 (tuner)
• Philips TDA10046A (demodulator)
• Philips SAA7131E (analog IF demodulator, A/V decoder & PCI bridge)

Identification

Running the command # lspci -vv yields:

01:09.0 Multimedia controller: Philips Semiconductors SAA7133/SAA7135 Video Broadcast Decoder (rev d1)
        Subsystem: Avermedia Technologies Inc Unknown device f01d
        Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B-
        Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
        Latency: 32 (21000ns min, 8000ns max)
        Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 209
        Region 0: Memory at e2002000 (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=1 PME-

and # lspci -vn:

01:09.0 0480: 1131:7133 (rev d1)
        Subsystem: 1461:f01d
        Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 209
        Memory at e2002000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=2K]
        Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 2

Making it work

Firmware

Firmware is required with this device; use the updated get_dvb_firmware script or use the file "TT_PCI_2.19h_28_11_2006/software/OEM/PCI/App/ttlcdacc.dll" contained in http://www.tt-download.com/download/updates/219/TT_PCI_2.19h_28_11_2006.zip, which you'll have to rename to /lib/firmware/dvb-fe-tda10046.fw.

Note: The suggested linux/Documentation/dvb/get_dvb_firmware tda10046 works well, however the manual instructions are wrong. The dll mentioned above is very large and does not load; see file size comparisons below:

-rw-r--r--  1 eyal eyal 22390126 Jan 26 13:53 TT_PCI_2.19h_28_11_2006.zip
-rw-rw-r--  1 eyal eyal   561152 Nov 15  2006 ttlcdacc.dll
-rw-r--r--  1 root root    24478 Jan 26 15:10 dvb-fe-tda10046.fw

Perhaps the original authour/poster of those lines meant to say something like "manually extract the firmware from the file tlcdacc.dll ... and then, after which, you will have to rename it to /lib/firmware/dvb-fe-tda10046.fw" ?? [1]

In Debian 8.3, this card needs the firmware file called dvb-fe-tda10046.fw and dvb-fe-tda10045.fw to be available in /lib/firmware. It can be obtained from this archive with firmwares. Simply extract archive and copy the needed firmware. (You can see it when you type dmesg in terminal)

Drivers

As of January 25, 2008: DVB-T works fine with modules from the Mercurial (hg) repository. This is a DVB-T card only.

As of June 26, 2008 Super 007 Analog version is supported. See http://linuxtv.org/hg/v4l-dvb/rev/fa0de4f2637a

After installing the drivers from the Mercurial repository you will have to run:

rmmod saa7134
modprobe saa7134

Notes

• Super Hybrid 007 is not currently supported.
• This is "Hybrid Super 007" with Analog+DVB-T or "DVB-T Super 007" with only DVB-T?
• AverTV Super 007 DVB-T (M135c) is DVB-T only, AverTV Hybrid Super 007 (M135r) is the Hybrid card, and AverTV Super 007 is the analog version.
• AVerTV DVB-T Super 007 M135D works out of the box.

Sample kernel output

dmesg output (with modules built from the Mercurial repository):

saa7130/34: v4l2 driver version 0.2.14 loaded
saa7133[0]: found at 0000:01:09.0, rev: 209, irq: 20, latency: 32, mmio: 0xe2002000
saa7133[0]: subsystem: 1461:f01d, board: Avermedia Super 007 [card=117,autodetected]
saa7133[0]: board init: gpio is 240000
tuner 2-004b: chip found @ 0x96 (saa7133[0])
tuner 2-004b: setting tuner address to 60
tuner 2-004b: type set to tda8290+75a
tuner 2-004b: setting tuner address to 60
tuner 2-004b: type set to tda8290+75a
saa7133[0]: i2c eeprom 00: 61 14 1d f0 54 20 1c 00 43 43 a9 1c 55 d2 b2 92
saa7133[0]: i2c eeprom 10: ff ff ff ff ff 20 ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
saa7133[0]: i2c eeprom 20: 01 40 01 32 32 01 01 43 88 ff 00 55 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 21 00 c0 96 10 03 02 15 16 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
tuner 2-004b: setting tuner address to 60
tuner 2-004b: type set to tda8290+75a
saa7133[0]: registered device video0 [v4l2]
saa7133[0]: registered device vbi0
saa7133[0]: registered device radio0
DVB: registering new adapter (saa7133[0])
DVB: registering frontend 0 (Philips TDA10046H DVB-T)...
tda1004x: setting up plls for 48MHz sampling clock
tda1004x: found firmware revision 20 -- ok

Remote control support

The IR receiver may still need a patch.