Tv tuner not working

[LordBeeDoO]

hi, I have laptop asus A7TC with integrated PCI TvTuner

05:02.0 Multimedia controller: Philips Semiconductors SAA7133/SAA7135 Video Broadcast Decoder (rev d1)
Subsystem: Avermedia Technologies Inc Device a836
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 19
Memory at dfffd800 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=2K]
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: saa7134
Kernel modules: saa7134

The tuner seems to be detected correctly, card is detected as Avermedia M115 card.

But: - no DVB device is set but it should - this is a hybrdi tuner
- when I try to use analog, in dmesg I find errors:

xc2028 2-0061: Error -22 while loading base firmware
xc2028 2-0061: Loading firmware for type=BASE MTS (5), id 0000000000000000.
xc2028 2-0061: i2c output error: rc = -5 (should be 64)
xc2028 2-0061: -5 returned from send

So it looks like some formware problem, but I found no solution. According to v4l pages, this should be tuner fully supportedby kernels.

Anyone has an idea ?

I ave Fedora Core 10 and 2.6.27 kernel.

[pwca]

I never could get VLC media player to work with any of my TV Tuner cards. But I they did work flawlessly with both the television viewers Xawtv and TVtime. They can both be found in the Fedora and/or RPMFusion repositories.

[trigpoint]

Can you post the output of dmesg?

For DVB-T cards, I find that the simplest app to get them working is kaffeine.

[LordBeeDoO]

Can you post the output of dmesg?

For DVB-T cards, I find that the simplest app to get them working is kaffeine.

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I forgot to say, I tried both, XawTv and TvTime ... KdeTV does not see dvb device ...

hi, during startup:

saa7130/34: v4l2 driver version 0.2.14 loaded
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKD] enabled at IRQ 19
saa7134 0000:05:02.0: PCI INT A -> Link[LNKD] -> GSI 19 (level, low) -> IRQ 19
saa7133[0]: found at 0000:05:02.0, rev: 209, irq: 19, latency: 64, mmio: 0xdfffd800
saa7133[0]: subsystem: 1461:a836, board: Avermedia M115 [card=138,autodetected]
saa7133[0]: board init: gpio is a400000
saa7133[0]: i2c eeprom 00: 61 14 36 a8 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
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 02 02 01 01 03 08 ff 00 c0 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 65 00 ff c2 1e 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: ff ff ff ff ff ff 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
tuner' 2-0061: chip found @ 0xc2 (saa7133[0])
xc2028 2-0061: creating new instance
xc2028 2-0061: type set to XCeive xc2028/xc3028 tuner
firmware: requesting xc3028-v27.fw
xc2028 2-0061: Loading 80 firmware images from xc3028-v27.fw, type: xc2028 firmware, ver 2.7
xc2028 2-0061: Loading firmware for type=BASE F8MHZ MTS (7), id 0000000000000000.
MTS (4), id 00000000000000ff:
xc2028 2-0061: Loading firmware for type=MTS (4), id 0000000100000007.
saa7133[0]: registered device video1 [v4l2]
saa7133[0]: registered device vbi0

When I try to scan channels with TvTime this error still shows:

xc2028 2-0061: Error -22 while loading base firmware
xc2028 2-0061: Loading firmware for type=BASE MTS (5), id 0000000000000000.
xc2028 2-0061: i2c output error: rc = -5 (should be 64)
xc2028 2-0061: -5 returned from send
xc2028 2-0061: Error -22 while loading base firmware
xc2028 2-0061: Loading firmware for type=BASE MTS (5), id 0000000000000000.
xc2028 2-0061: i2c output error: rc = -5 (should be 64)
xc2028 2-0061: -5 returned from send
xc2028 2-0061: Error -22 while loading base firmware


Moreover, tuner is not registered as dvb (no /dev/dvb added) , only analog ... as seen in dmesg..

As I said, looks like some formware trouble ...

[Caraibes]

In order for my TV card to work, I had to create a file called "options", with that line inside:
options saa7134 card=3 gbuffers=4
The path is:
/etc/modprobe.d/options

Then, TVTime is the very best IMHO...

Reboot...

That's it...

[hiberphoptik]

it seems really hit and miss with tuner cards, also here in the states its useless to bother getting any of them to work with tvtime or xawtv since in a month there will be no more analog TV signals.

I have a hauppauge 950 usb tuner and it works with mythtv (digital) and tvtime(no sound and only analog), but not: klear, me-tv, xawtv, etc...

*sigh*