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----- Original Message -----
From: "Tom Lloyd" <napalmllama@*****.com>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, April 24, 2006 4:15 PM
Subject: [linux-dvb] Re: AverMedia AVerTv Hybrid +FM CardBus drivers
> Please write to Avermedia <[email protected]> asking for more generic
> kernel support. Apparently they aren't able to release open-source
> drivers due to licensing problems with one of their chip
> manufacturers. Linux support clearly isn't a priority (otherwise we'd
> have seen many more drivers, a lot sooner after the card was released)
> but the fact that Aver is even acknowledging our existence is
> encouraging.
>
> I've just fired off an email saying I understand their situation, and
> suggesting that they use a system similar to nvidia's, with an
> open-source "glue layer" in between the binary driver and the kernel.
> This layer would act as an easily modifiable intermediary between the
> driver and the constantly changing kernel.
>
> An idea like that is all very well, but a company will be much more
> willing to spend the resources setting it up if it sees lots of
> revenue being made back from it. So if all you people out there think
> that AverMedia's products should have more generic Linux support, let
> them know about it - and with any luck, sooner or later they will!
>
> Cheers,
> Tom
>
> On 24/04/06, [email protected]
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>> From: Martin Piayda <martin@******.ath.cx>
>> To: [email protected]
>> Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2006 10:38:01 +0200
>> Subject: [linux-dvb] AverMedia AVerTv Hybrid +FM CardBus drivers
>> Hi,
>>
>> I own the Avermedia AVerTV Hybrid +FM CardBus, which is based on a
>> Philips SAA7134 as far as I know.
>> I'm currently using a 2.6.15 Kernel and noticed the dvb-t part of the
>> card is not recognized.
>> Dmesg says the card is UNKNOWN/GENERIC (see below). The card uses mt352
>> as its frontend, because I saw that AverMedia actually provides
>> linux-drivers (module saa713x and mt352) which are unfortunately
>> outdated (Kernels 2.6.11 and 2.6.13).
>>
>> Now I tried several card-types by reloading the saa7134-driver with
>> card=1.. card=2.. etc and several tuner-types with no success.
>>
>> lspci -v:
>> 0000:03:00.0 Multimedia controller: Philips Semiconductors SAA7133 Video
>> Broadcast Decoder (rev d1)
>> Subsystem: Avermedia Technologies Inc: Unknown device f436
>> Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 11
>> Memory at f6000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=2K]
>> Capabilities: <available only to root>
>>
>> Loading saa7134 by modprobe saa7134 card=46 registers the card as
>>
>> [4295549.397000] saa7133[0]: subsystem: 1461:f436, board: AVerMedia
>> Cardbus TV/Radio (E500) [card=46,insmod option]
>>
>> and the status LED of the card lights on.
>>
>> Which information is required for further process? Providing physical
>> information for a CardBus card is certainly difficult, so what can I do,
>> offer, provide?
>>
>> Regards,
>> Martin
>>
>> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
>> Dmesg output:
>> [4295249.911000] saa7133[0]: subsystem: 1461:f436, board:
>> UNKNOWN/GENERIC [card=0,autodetected]
>> [4295249.911000] saa7133[0]: board init: gpio is 220000
>> [4295250.031000] saa7133[0]: i2c eeprom 00: 61 14 36 f4 00 00 00 00 00
>> 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
>> [4295250.031000] saa7133[0]: i2c eeprom 10: 00 ff e2 0e ff 20 ff ff ff
>> ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
>> [4295250.031000] saa7133[0]: i2c eeprom 20: 01 40 01 02 02 01 01 03 08
>> ff 00 ff ff ff ff ff
>> [4295250.032000] saa7133[0]: i2c eeprom 30: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
>> ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
>> [4295250.032000] saa7133[0]: i2c eeprom 40: ff 65 00 ff c2 1e ff ff ff
>> ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
>> [4295250.033000] saa7133[0]: i2c eeprom 50: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
>> ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
>> [4295250.033000] saa7133[0]: i2c eeprom 60: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
>> ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
>> [4295250.033000] saa7133[0]: i2c eeprom 70: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
>> ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
>> [4295250.033000] saa7133[0]: registered device video0 [v4l2]
>> [4295250.033000] saa7133[0]: registered device vbi0
>> [4295250.097000] saa7134 ALSA driver for DMA sound loaded
>> [4295250.098000] saa7133[0]/alsa: saa7133[0] at 0xf6000000 irq 11
>> registered as card -1
>
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