Re: af9015: tuner id:179 not supported, please report!

[Jan Sundman <jan.sundman@aland.net>]

Hi Bert and Mike,

The information that you have regarding the TDA18218, where can I get my
hands on that? It would be interesting to take a shot at writing the
driver, but I guess I would need some pointers in the right direction.

Would it be possible to get the information from you, or is such
information freely available on the internet? Where should I start
looking?

Best regards,

//Jan

On Wed, 2009-12-02 at 18:08 -0500, Michael Krufky wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 5:06 PM, Bert Massop <bert.massop@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Jan Sundman <jan.sundman <at> aland.net> writes:
> >
> >>
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> I just received a usb DVB-T card and have been trying to get it to work
> >> under Ubuntu 9.10, but to no avail. dmesg shows the following when
> >> plugging in the card:
> >>
> >> [   35.280024] usb 2-1: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and
> >> address 4
> >> [   35.435978] usb 2-1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
> >> [   35.450176] af9015: tuner id:179 not supported, please report!
> >> [   35.452891] Afatech DVB-T 2: Fixing fullspeed to highspeed interval:
> >> 10 -> 7
> >> [   35.453097] input: Afatech DVB-T 2
> >> as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:13.2/usb2/2-1/2-1:1.1/input/input8
> >> [   35.453141] generic-usb 0003:15A4:9016.0005: input,hidraw3: USB HID
> >> v1.01 Keyboard [Afatech DVB-T 2] on usb-0000:00:13.2-1/input1
> >>
> >> lsusb shows:
> >> Bus 002 Device 005: ID 15a4:9016
> >>
> >> and finally lsmod | grep dvb
> >> dvb_usb_af9015         37152  0
> >> dvb_usb                22892  1 dvb_usb_af9015
> >> dvb_core              109716  1 dvb_usb
> >>
> >> While googling for an answer to my troubles I came across
> >> http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=606487&page=5 which hints that
> >> the card may use the TDA18218HK tuner chip which does not seem to be
> >> supported currently.
> >>
> >> Does anyone have any experience regarding this chip and know what to do
> >> to get it working.
> >>
> >> Best regards,
> >>
> >> //Jan
> >>
> >>
> >
> > Hi Jan,
> >
> > As stated in the Ubuntuforums thread, there doesn't seem to be any support for
> > this chip at the moment. I don't know how hard it is to code support for a
> > specific tuner, but I'm looking into that right now.
> >
> > Hopefully some more experienced coders will join in writing something usable, as
> > I don't think I will be able to do it myself.
> >
> > Please drop a message if anyone finds something useful.
> >
> > Best regards,
> >
> > Bert
> 
> The TDA18218 is not currently supported under Linux.  I have the
> information needed to write a driver to support it, but I do not have
> any devices that use it, nor any interest (as of now) to write the
> driver on my own time.
> 
> For me, it would not be very difficult to get this done, as I have
> done work to support a similar family of tuners -- TDA18271 /
> TDA18211.  The TDA18218 tuner is not supported by the current driver.
> 
> In the past, I would have gone ahead and written a driver for the
> sheer enjoyment of doing so... but nowadays, I actually have other
> projects of a higher priority that need my attention instead.
> 
> If, in the future, any commercial entity has interest in seeing this
> tuner silicon supported under Linux, they should contact me -- perhaps
> my desire to write this driver can be increased ;-)
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Mike Krufky
> kernellabs.com
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