Re: [linux-dvb] Asus MyCinema P7131 Dual support

[Giorgio <mywing81@gmail.com>]

On 04/10/2010 01:48, Dejan Rodiger wrote:
> Hi Hermann,
> 
> I finally found the time to wire analog antena and I checked it with
> my TV if it is working correctly.
> Since I am using local cable provider which didn't upgrade their
> system in 10 years and they are still broadcast in analog, I had a
> problem off finding channel list, so in the end I tried tvtime-scanner
> and it found about 58 channels. But, out of this 58 most of them were
> not good (no signal). I was able to finetune few programs. My main
> programs (local Croatian TV stations) were not found. Maybe I need to
> finetune every found station.
> 
> I also tried zapping which crashed my X.
> 
> I am also lost in setting mythtv. I set analog tunner on /dev/video0.
> But I think I have a problem of setting the channel list for my local
> cable provider. Is it possible to scan whole list or something. If you
> have any reading recommendation to set this, I would be helpfull

Dejan,

I have the exact same card:

# sudo lpci -vnn
02:07.0 Multimedia controller [0480]: Philips Semiconductors SAA7131/SAA7133/SAA7135 Video Broadcast Decoder [1131:7133] (rev d1)
	Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Device [1043:4876]
	Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 20
	Memory at fbfff800 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=2K]
	Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 2
	Kernel driver in use: saa7134
	Kernel modules: saa7134

and I can confirm you that it's autodetected and works very well (both the
analog and the digital part) on 2.6.35.
2.6.32 has a problem with dvb-t reception, but I have reported it and hopefully
it will be fixed soon upstream: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.drivers.video-input-infrastructure/23604

If you want to test the analog part, install MPlayer and run the following command:

mplayer tv:// -tv driver=v4l2:device=/dev/video0:norm=PAL:input=0:chanlist=europe-west

and then press 'k' or 'h' to select previous/next channel (after you switch
channel, wait some seconds until the card tunes, for some channels I need
5 seconds here, for others about 1 second). Now, with some patience, explore
all the channels and you should be able to find your local tv stations.
Also, you might need to adjust mplayer options, like norm= or chanlist=
(you could try chanlist=europe-east).

The command line above doesn't grab audio though, so you won't hear a thing.
If you want to hear the audio you need to make sure saa7134-alsa is loaded
and run something like:

mplayer tv:// -tv driver=v4l2:device=/dev/video0:norm=PAL:input=0:alsa:adevice=hw.1,0:amode=1:immediatemode=0:chanlist=europe-west

(make sure you select the right alsa device in adevice=)

The wiki has a good page about MPlayer:

http://www.linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php/MPlayer

and of course the MPlayer man page explain all the options too.

These pages are also useful (but some things might be a bit outdated):

http://www.linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php/ASUS_My_Cinema-P7131_Hybrid
http://www.linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php/Saa7134-alsa

I hope this can help you and others reading this ML.

Regards,
Giorgio Vazzana

> Thanks
> --
> Dejan Rodiger
> S: callto://drodiger
> 
> 
> 
> On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 00:46,  <hermann-pitton@arcor.de> wrote:
>>
>>
>> Hi Dejan,
>>
>> ----- Original Nachricht ----
>> Von:     Dejan Rodiger <dejan.rodiger@gmail.com>
>> An:      hermann pitton <hermann-pitton@arcor.de>
>> Datum:   22.09.2010 13:20
>> Betreff: Re: [linux-dvb] Asus MyCinema P7131 Dual support
>>
>>> Hi Herman,
>>>
>>> here is dmesg output without forcing card=78.
>>> As I see it uses card=112, autodetected
>>>
>>> [   16.043345] IR RC6 protocol handler initialized
>>> [   16.173473] IR JVC protocol handler initialized
>>> [   16.236641] IR Sony protocol handler initialized
>>> [   16.433187] lirc_dev: IR Remote Control driver registered, major 250
>>> [   16.572705] IR LIRC bridge handler initialized
>>> [   16.894983] Linux video capture interface: v2.00
>>> [   16.957585] saa7130/34: v4l2 driver version 0.2.16 loaded
>>> [   16.958300] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [APC3] enabled at IRQ 18
>>> [   16.958306]   alloc irq_desc for 18 on node 0
>>> [   16.958309]   alloc kstat_irqs on node 0
>>> [   16.958320] saa7134 0000:01:06.0: PCI INT A -> Link[APC3] -> GSI 18
>>> (level, low) -> IRQ 18
>>> [   16.958327] saa7133[0]: found at 0000:01:06.0, rev: 209, irq: 18,
>>> latency: 32, mmio: 0xfdeff000
>>> [   16.958334] saa7133[0]: subsystem: 1043:4876, board: ASUSTeK P7131
>>> Hybrid [card=112,autodetected]
>>> [   16.958378] saa7133[0]: board init: gpio is 0
>>> [   17.010075] Registered IR keymap rc-asus-pc39
>>> [   17.010197] input: saa7134 IR (ASUSTeK P7131 Hybri as
>>> /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:09.0/0000:01:06.0/rc/rc0/input4
>>> [   17.010268] rc0: saa7134 IR (ASUSTeK P7131 Hybri as
>>> /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:09.0/0000:01:06.0/rc/rc0
>>> [   17.190477] saa7133[0]: i2c eeprom 00: 43 10 76 48 54 20 1c 00 43
>>> 43 a9 1c 55 d2 b2 92
>>> [   17.190490] saa7133[0]: i2c eeprom 10: ff ff ff 0f ff 20 ff ff ff
>>> ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
>>> [   17.190502] saa7133[0]: i2c eeprom 20: 01 40 01 02 03 01 01 03 08
>>> ff 00 d5 ff ff ff ff
>>> [   17.190513] saa7133[0]: i2c eeprom 30: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
>>> ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
>>> [   17.190524] saa7133[0]: i2c eeprom 40: ff 21 00 c2 96 10 03 32 55
>>> 50 ff ff ff ff ff ff
>>> [   17.190534] saa7133[0]: i2c eeprom 50: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
>>> ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
>>> [   17.190545] saa7133[0]: i2c eeprom 60: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
>>> ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
>>> [   17.190556] saa7133[0]: i2c eeprom 70: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
>>> ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
>>> [   17.190566] saa7133[0]: i2c eeprom 80: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
>>> ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
>>> [   17.190577] saa7133[0]: i2c eeprom 90: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
>>> ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
>>> [   17.190587] saa7133[0]: i2c eeprom a0: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
>>> ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
>>> [   17.190598] saa7133[0]: i2c eeprom b0: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
>>> ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
>>> [   17.190609] saa7133[0]: i2c eeprom c0: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
>>> ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
>>> [   17.190620] saa7133[0]: i2c eeprom d0: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
>>> ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
>>> [   17.190630] saa7133[0]: i2c eeprom e0: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
>>> ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
>>> [   17.190641] saa7133[0]: i2c eeprom f0: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
>>> ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
>>>
>>> [   17.610120] tuner 2-004b: chip found @ 0x96 (saa7133[0])
>>>
>>> [   17.780037] tda829x 2-004b: setting tuner address to 61
>>> [   17.940020] tda829x 2-004b: type set to tda8290+75a
>>>
>>> [   24.000114] saa7133[0]: registered device video0 [v4l2]
>>> [   24.000150] saa7133[0]: registered device vbi0
>>> [   24.000182] saa7133[0]: registered device radio0
>>> [   24.027730] saa7134 ALSA driver for DMA sound loaded
>>> [   24.027770] saa7133[0]/alsa: saa7133[0] at 0xfdeff000 irq 18
>>> registered as card -2
>>>
>>> [   25.900159] DVB: registering new adapter (saa7133[0])
>>> [   25.900165] DVB: registering adapter 0 frontend 0 (Philips
>>> TDA10046H DVB-T)...
>>>
>>> [   26.710050] tda1004x: setting up plls for 48MHz sampling clock
>>> [   27.710043] tda1004x: found firmware revision 29 -- ok
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> Dejan Rodiger
>>> M: +385917829076
>>> S: callto://drodiger
>>>
>>
>> all looks fine now.
>>
>> With auto detection you should have correct LNA support for analog tuning and DVB-T.
>>
>> You need to connect the DVB-T signal to the FM/RF antenna input and the analog TV signal
>> to the cable RF input..
>>
>> If you plug in the remote receiver, gpio 0x040000 will switch to high.
>>
>> Does this help any further?
>>
>> What went wrong previously, making you think you might have to force for example card = 78 ?
>>
>> I can revive almost all of the Asus cards on the saa713x driver if needed.
>>
>> Have fun, hopefully.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Hermann
>>
>>
>>>
>>> On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 01:13, hermann pitton <hermann-pitton@arcor.de>
>>> wrote:
>>>> Hi Dejan,
>>>>
>>>> Am Dienstag, den 21.09.2010, 10:07 +0200 schrieb Dejan Rodiger:
>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>
>>>>> I am using Ubuntu linux 10.10 with the latest kernel 2.6.35-22-generic
>>>>> on x86_64. I have installed nonfree firmware which should support this
>>>>> card, but to be sure, can somebody confirm that my TV card is
>>>>> supported in Analog or DVB mode?
>>>>>
>>>>> sudo lspci -vnn
>>>>> 01:06.0 Multimedia controller [0480]: Philips Semiconductors
>>>>> SAA7131/SAA7133/SAA7135 Video Broadcast Decoder [1131:7133] (rev d1)
>>>>>         Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. My Cinema-P7131 Hybrid
>>>>> [1043:4876]
>>>>>         Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 18
>>>>>         Memory at fdeff000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=2K]
>>>>>         Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 2
>>>>>         Kernel driver in use: saa7134
>>>>>         Kernel modules: saa7134
>>>>>
>>>>> It says Hybrid, but I put the following in
>>>>> the /etc/modprobe.d/saa7134.conf
>>>>> options saa7134 card=78 tuner=54
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks
>>>>> --
>>>>> Dejan Rodiger
>>>>> S: callto://drodiger
>>>>
>>>> don't have time to follow this closely anymore.
>>>>
>>>> But forcing it to card=78 is plain wrong. It has an early additional LNA
>>>> in confirmed config = 2 status.
>>>>
>>>> Your card should be auto detected and previously always was, based on
>>>> what we have in saa7134-cards.c and further for it. (saa7134-dvb and
>>>> related tuner/demod stuff)
>>>>
>>>>        }, {
>>>>                .vendor       = PCI_VENDOR_ID_PHILIPS,
>>>>                .device       = PCI_DEVICE_ID_PHILIPS_SAA7133,
>>>>                .subvendor    = 0x1043,
>>>>                .subdevice    = 0x4876,
>>>>                .driver_data  = SAA7134_BOARD_ASUSTeK_P7131_HYBRID_LNA,
>>>>        },{
>>>>
>>>> I remember for sure, that this card was fully functional for all use
>>>> cases and it was not easy to get it there. I don't have it.
>>>>
>>>> Please provide the "dmesg" for failing auto detection without forcing
>>>> some card = number as a starting point.
>>>>
>>>> I for sure want to see this board fully functional again.
>>>>
>>>> Cheers,
>>>> Hermann
>>>>
>>
>>
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