[mythtv-users] uc: pci DVB-T UK Question

Hamish Moffatt hamish at cloud.net.au
Wed Nov 17 13:01:50 UTC 2004


On Mon, Nov 15, 2004 at 09:16:03AM -0000, Barker Thomas wrote:
> Hi I was wondering if anyone here has had any luck getting an Avermedia 761
> working at all? I can get it initialised and firmware uploaded on 2.6.8.1
> but then it will only tune once and give horrible reception (works fine in
> windows, reception is good and card is ok), then I need to rmmod the module
> and put it back in.

Using it here, with 2.6.8.1. However there's a kernel bug with that
version, for which you'll need to patch. (Ignore the path names in the
patch; it'll apply to 2.6.8.1.)

diff -urN linux-2.6.6/drivers/media/dvb/frontends/sp887x.c linux-2.6.7+lirc+alsa/drivers/media/dvb/frontends/sp887x.c
--- linux-2.6.6/drivers/media/dvb/frontends/sp887x.c	2004-06-01 23:31:51.000000000 +1000
+++ linux-2.6.7+lirc+alsa/drivers/media/dvb/frontends/sp887x.c	2004-06-02 00:05:40.000000000 +1000
@@ -633,6 +633,7 @@
 		sp887x_writereg(fe, 0xc18, 0x00d);
 		break;
 
+#if 0
 	case FE_GET_TUNE_SETTINGS:
 	{
 	        struct dvb_frontend_tune_settings* fesettings = (struct dvb_frontend_tune_settings*) arg;
@@ -641,6 +642,7 @@
 	        fesettings->max_drift = 0;
 	        return 0;
 	}	    
+#endif
 
 	default:
 		return -EOPNOTSUPP;

> With 2.6.10 when I modprobe sp887x I get an error about it not being able to
> find the firmware or timing out (I know its in the correct place though I
> checked the src).

I haven't tried that version.


Hamish
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