AVerMedia AVerTV Hybrid+FM PCI (A16D)

AVerMedia A16D Front

A DVB-T PCI card produced by AVerMedia.

This card is supported under Linux, having since been added to kernel 2.6.26.

Note: There are actually two different AVerMedia cards that bear the identical name "AVerTV Hybrid+FM PCI", so one must be careful to distinguish between this one, the A16D, and the other, the A16AR.

Note: The kernel 2.6.26 only supports analogue mode. Please use the kernel 2.6.27 for DVB-T suport.

Overview/Features

Components Used

The A16D model consists of the following hardware components:

• Xceive XC3028 (tuner & analog demodulator)
• Philips SAA7135HL (A/V decoder)
• Zarlink MT352 (DVB-T demodulator)

Identification

If you have an A16D correctly detected then "sudo lspci -vvnn" should be similar to:

(Example from Ubuntu 8.04 using 2.6.24-19-generic x86_64)
03:07.0 Multimedia controller [0480]: Philips Semiconductors SAA7133/SAA7135 Video Broadcast Decoder [1131:7133] (rev d1)
	Subsystem: Avermedia Technologies Inc Unknown device [1461:f936]
	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
	Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 21
	Region 0: Memory at fdcfe000 (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=0 PME- 

• Note: the above output from lspci shows the card NOT being properly/automagically detected/recognized! ... it would be nice if someone could provide the output from lspci where it shows the card being properly detected

Making it work

Sample kernel output

If you have an A16D correctly detected then the related dmesg output should be similar to:

(Example from Ubuntu 8.04 using 2.6.24-19-generic x86_64)
[   63.704203] Linux video capture interface: v2.00
[   63.752924] ACPI: WMI-Acer: Mapper loaded
[   64.099345] saa7130/34: v4l2 driver version 0.2.14 loaded
[   64.099459] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:03:07.0[A] -> GSI 21 (level, low) -> IRQ 21
[   64.099467] saa7133[0]: found at 0000:03:07.0, rev: 209, irq: 21, latency: 32, mmio: 0xfdcfe000
[   64.099475] saa7133[0]: subsystem: 1461:f936, board: AVerMedia Hybrid TV/Radio (A16D) [card=137,autodetected]
[   64.099485] saa7133[0]: board init: gpio is 2a200
[   64.121124] input: saa7134 IR (AVerMedia Hybrid TV as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:14.4/0000:03:07.0/input/input6
[   64.201694] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:14.2[A] -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 16
[   64.236208] hda_codec: Unknown model for ALC882, trying auto-probe from BIOS...
[   64.312889] saa7133[0]: i2c eeprom 00: 61 14 36 f9 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
[   64.312897] saa7133[0]: i2c eeprom 10: ff ff ff ff ff 20 ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
[   64.312902] saa7133[0]: i2c eeprom 20: 01 40 01 02 02 01 01 00 08 ff 00 0e ff ff ff ff
[   64.312907] saa7133[0]: i2c eeprom 30: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
[   64.312911] saa7133[0]: i2c eeprom 40: ff 65 00 ff c2 1e ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
[   64.312915] saa7133[0]: i2c eeprom 50: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
[   64.312919] saa7133[0]: i2c eeprom 60: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
[   64.312923] saa7133[0]: i2c eeprom 70: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
[   64.312927] saa7133[0]: i2c eeprom 80: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
[   64.312931] saa7133[0]: i2c eeprom 90: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
[   64.312935] saa7133[0]: i2c eeprom a0: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
[   64.312939] saa7133[0]: i2c eeprom b0: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
[   64.312944] saa7133[0]: i2c eeprom c0: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
[   64.312948] saa7133[0]: i2c eeprom d0: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
[   64.312952] saa7133[0]: i2c eeprom e0: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
[   64.312956] saa7133[0]: i2c eeprom f0: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
[   64.344915] tuner' 1-0061: chip found @ 0xc2 (saa7133[0])
[   64.387946] xc2028 1-0061: creating new instance
[   64.387952] xc2028 1-0061: type set to XCeive xc2028/xc3028 tuner
[   64.444501] xc2028 1-0061: Loading 80 firmware images from xc3028-v27.fw, type: xc2028 firmware, ver 2.7
[   64.460800] xc2028 1-0061: Loading firmware for type=BASE F8MHZ (3), id 0000000000000000.
[   72.998152] (0), id 00000000000000ff:
[   72.998156] xc2028 1-0061: Loading firmware for type=(0), id 0000000100000007.
[   73.166017] SCODE (20000000), id 0000000100000007:
[   73.166019] xc2028 1-0061: Loading SCODE for type=MONO SCODE HAS_IF_5320 (60008000), id 0000000800000007.
[   73.605999] saa7133[0]: registered device video0 [v4l2]
[   73.606016] saa7133[0]: registered device vbi0
[   73.606032] saa7133[0]: registered device radio0
[   73.606187] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:01:05.1[B] -> GSI 19 (level, low) -> IRQ 19
[   73.606833] PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:01:05.1 to 64
[   73.770676] xc2028 1-0061: attaching existing instance
[   73.770682] xc2028 1-0061: type set to XCeive xc2028/xc3028 tuner
[   73.770686] DVB: registering new adapter (saa7133[0])
[   73.770689] DVB: registering frontend 0 (Zarlink MT352 DVB-T)...

External Links

• AVerTV Hybrid+FM PCI (A16D) product page
• mrec's 3rd party driver
• Russian Review