Re: cannot make this Asus my cinema-u3100miniplusv2 work under linux

Antti Palosaari
2012-12-16T20:35:28Z

It is very likely weak signal issue as I said. What kind of antenna you
are using?

Antti

On 12/16/2012 10:13 PM, Renato Gallo wrote:
> i found it is a problem with kaffeine, with other programs i can lock a
> signal but reception is very very sketchy (like in unviewable).
>
> GlovX xine-lib # dmesg |grep e4000
> GlovX xine-lib # dmesg |grep FC0012
> GlovX xine-lib # dmesg |grep FC0013
> [ 28.281685] fc0013: Fitipower FC0013 successfully attached.
> GlovX xine-lib # dmesg |grep FC2580
> GlovX xine-lib # dmesg |grep TUA
> GlovX xine-lib #
>
>
> Il 16/12/2012 18:55 Antti Palosaari ha scritto:
>> On 12/16/2012 07:15 PM, Renato Gallo wrote:
>>> now the modules loads and kaffeine recognizes the device but i cannot
>>> find any channels.
>>> can it be a tuner bug ?
>>
>> I think it is bad antenna / weak signal. Try w_scan, scan, tzap.
>>
>> Could you say which RF-tuner it finds from your device? use dmesg to
>> dump output. It could be for example e4000, FC0012, FC0013, FC2580,
>> TUA9001 etc.
>>
>> Antti
>>
>>>
>>>
>>> kaffeine(5978) DvbDevice::frontendEvent: tuning failed
>>> kaffeine(5978) DvbScanFilter::timerEvent: timeout while reading section;
>>> type = 0 pid = 0
>>> kaffeine(5978) DvbScanFilter::timerEvent: timeout while reading section;
>>> type = 2 pid = 17
>>> kaffeine(5978) DvbScanFilter::timerEvent: timeout while reading section;
>>> type = 4 pid = 16
>>> kaffeine(5978) DvbDevice::frontendEvent: tuning failed
>>> kaffeine(5978) DvbScanFilter::timerEvent: timeout while reading section;
>>> type = 0 pid = 0
>>> kaffeine(5978) DvbScanFilter::timerEvent: timeout while reading section;
>>> type = 2 pid = 17
>>> kaffeine(5978) DvbScanFilter::timerEvent: timeout while reading section;
>>> type = 4 pid = 16
>>> kaffeine(5978) DvbDevice::frontendEvent: tuning failed
>>>
>>>
>>> Il 16/12/2012 15:50 Antti Palosaari ha scritto:
>>>> On 12/16/2012 04:23 PM, Renato Gallo wrote:
>>>>> any news on this ?
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Asus my cinema-u3100miniplusv2
>>>>>
>>>>> Bus 001 Device 015: ID 1b80:d3a8 Afatech
>>>>>
>>>>> [ 6956.333440] usb 1-6.3.6: new high-speed USB device number 16 using
>>>>> ehci_hcd
>>>>> [ 6956.453943] usb 1-6.3.6: New USB device found, idVendor=1b80,
>>>>> idProduct=d3a8
>>>>> [ 6956.453950] usb 1-6.3.6: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2,
>>>>> SerialNumber=0
>>>>> [ 6956.453955] usb 1-6.3.6: Product: Rtl2832UDVB
>>>>> [ 6956.453959] usb 1-6.3.6: Manufacturer: Realtek
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Seems to be Realtek RTL2832U. Add that USB ID to the driver and test.
>>>> It is very high probability it starts working.
>>>>
>>>> Here is the patch:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> http://git.linuxtv.org/anttip/media_tree.git/shortlog/refs/heads/rtl28xxu-usb-ids
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Please test and report.
>>>>
>>>> regards
>>>> Antti
>>>
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