AVerMedia AVerTV DVB-S Pro (A700)

An DVB-S PCI card from AVerMedia.

It is currently unsupported under Linux.

Overview

• lspci -vvnn output looks like this:

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:

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
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]
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

Components Used

• Zarlink ZL10036 (DVB-S Tuner)
• Zarlink ZL10313 (DVB-S Demodulator)
• Philips SAA7135HL (PCI Bridge)

Driver Development Status

• Needed: I2C sniff while tuning with working driver.
• GPIO setting of windows driver (Detected with regspy):

GPMODE:   0x80040100
GPSTATUS: 0x0655a314 (changing)

• Meaning of GPIOs:
  • 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