Archived:KWorld DVB-T 220-V4L

The Tevion/KWorld DVB-T 220RF is card 88 and is autodetected by a standard modern linux kernel.

This card seems well supported although digital (dvb-t) support isn't enabled automatically. To enable this run modprobe saa7134-dvb as root.

Identification

uname -a
Linux media 2.6.20-11-generic #2 SMP Thu Mar 15 08:03:07 UTC 2007 i686 GNU/Linux

lspci -vvv
01:06.0 Multimedia controller: Philips Semiconductors SAA7133/SAA7135 Video Broadcast Decoder (rev d0)
       Subsystem: KWorld Computer Co. Ltd. Unknown device 7201
       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 (63750ns min, 63750ns max)
       Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 21
       Region 0: Memory at f5000000 (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-

lspci -n
01:06.0 0480: 1131:7133 (rev d0)

dmesg
[   50.055716] saa7130/34: v4l2 driver version 0.2.14 loaded
[   50.056200] saa7133[0]: found at 0000:01:06.0, rev: 208, irq: 21, latency: 32, mmio: 0xf5000000
[   50.056205] saa7133[0]: subsystem: 17de:7201, board: Tevion/KWorld DVB-T 220RF [card=88,autodetected]
[   50.056213] saa7133[0]: board init: gpio is 100
[   50.201689] saa7133[0]: i2c eeprom 00: de 17 01 72 ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
[   50.201698] saa7133[0]: i2c eeprom 10: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
[   50.201703] saa7133[0]: i2c eeprom 20: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
[   50.201709] saa7133[0]: i2c eeprom 30: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
[   50.201714] saa7133[0]: i2c eeprom 40: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
[   50.201720] saa7133[0]: i2c eeprom 50: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
[   50.201725] saa7133[0]: i2c eeprom 60: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
[   50.201730] saa7133[0]: i2c eeprom 70: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
[   50.425534] tuner 2-004b: chip found @ 0x96 (saa7133[0])
[   50.485509] tuner 2-004b: setting tuner address to 61
[   50.533476] tuner 2-004b: type set to tda8290+75a
[   50.697349] tuner 2-004b: setting tuner address to 61
[   50.745310] tuner 2-004b: type set to tda8290+75a
[   50.831536] saa7133[0]: registered device video0 [v4l2]
[   50.831580] saa7133[0]: registered device vbi0
[   50.831602] saa7133[0]: registered device radio0
[   50.850355] saa7134 ALSA driver for DMA sound loaded
[   50.850379] saa7133[0]/alsa: saa7133[0] at 0xf5000000 irq 21 registered as card -2
[ 5774.372000] DVB: registering new adapter (saa7133[0]).
[ 5774.372000] DVB: registering frontend 0 (Philips TDA10046H DVB-T)...

The linux driver seems to work better than the Windows driver, and the users would like to thank the development team for providing such an excellent driver for this budget card.