Re: [linux-dvb] Any chance of help with v4l-dvb-experimental / Avermedia A16D please?

[Matthias Schwarzott <zzam@gentoo.org>]

On Mittwoch, 19. März 2008, timf wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> On Tue, 2008-03-18 at 22:31 +0100, hermann pitton wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Am Dienstag, den 18.03.2008, 18:04 -0300 schrieb Mauro Carvalho Chehab:
> > > On Wed, 19 Mar 2008 05:48:52 +0900
> > >
> > > timf <timf@iinet.net.au> wrote:
> > > > 1) New install ubuntu, extract tip.tgz.
> > >
> > > There's no need for you to reinstall Linux for each test. This is not
> > > MS**t ;)
> > >
> > > You don't even need to reboot.
> > >
> > > > [   40.753552] saa7133[0]: i2c scan: found device @ 0xc2  [???]
> > > > [   40.864616] tuner' 2-0061: Setting mode_mask to 0x0e
> > > > [   40.864621] tuner' 2-0061: chip found @ 0xc2 (saa7133[0])
> > > > [   40.864624] tuner' 2-0061: tuner 0x61: Tuner type absent
> > > > [   40.864658] tuner' 2-0061: Calling set_type_addr for type=0,
> > > > addr=0xff, mode=0x02, config=0xffff8100
> >
> > any idea somebody when that was introduced?
> >
> > [   40.753552] saa7133[0]: i2c scan: found device @ 0xc2  [???]
> > [   40.864616] tuner' 2-0061: Setting mode_mask to 0x0e
> > [   40.864621] tuner' 2-0061: chip found @ 0xc2 (saa7133[0])
> > [   40.864624] tuner' 2-0061: tuner 0x61: Tuner type absent
> > [   40.864658] tuner' 2-0061: Calling set_type_addr for type=0,
> > addr=0xff, mode=0x02, config=0xffff8100
> > [   40.864662] tuner' 2-0061: set addr for type -1
> > [   40.876586] tuner-simple 2-0061: creating new instance
> > [   40.876589] tuner-simple 2-0061: type set to 0 (Temic PAL (4002 FH5))
> >
> > Out of historical cruft TUNER_ABSENT is tuner type 4.
> >
> > > mode=0x02 is radio.
> > >
> > > Try to add this to the struct:
> > >
> > > .radio_type     = UNSET,
> > >
> > > > 3) No DVB, installed tvtime - no signal.
> > >
> > > DVB won't work yet. What the demod inside this board? There's no setup
> > > for it.
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Hermann
>
> Nope, could't get anything to work.
> - blacklisted tuner_xc3028 - no diff still locked up at boot
> - dbg - no module loaded
>

Blacklisting will only work for modules modprobe is called for. These days 
udev does call modprobe so for this to work you need to blacklist saa7134 
module.
Or: You stop module autoloading in general if your distro offers this option.

Regards
Matthias

-- 
Matthias Schwarzott (zzam)

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