Re: Gene's pcHDTV 3000 analog problem

[Gene Heskett <gene.heskett@verizon.net>]

On Thursday 01 December 2005 16:00, Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote:
I also took Hartmut out of the Cc: list, he is mailbombing me with a
sender id scheme of some kind for every reply I make to All:

Its very poor form to do that to a mailing list although I suspect its
because he is in the CC list and getting it directly if I don't remove
him from it.  He doesn't need 2 copies anyway.

> After checking the datasheets of Thompson tuner, and I have one guess:
>
> At board description, tda9887 is not there. This tuner needs to work
>properly.
>
> This small patch does enable it for your board.
>
> You should notice that you may need to use some parameters for tda0887
>to work properly, like using port1=0 port2=0 qss=0 as insmod options
> for this module. (these are some on/off bits at the chip, to enable
> some special functions - if 0/0/0 doesn't work you may need to test
> 0/0/1, .. 1/1/1).

I'm puzzled.  In 2.6.14.3, that tuner is not loaded, and its working
fine other than spamming the logs by the megabyte about

Nov 29 22:56:18 coyote kernel: CORE IOCTL: 0xc008561c
Nov 29 22:56:18 coyote kernel: CORE IOCTL: 0xc0445624
Nov 29 22:56:18 coyote kernel: CORE IOCTL: 0xc008561c
Nov 29 22:56:18 coyote kernel: CORE IOCTL: 0xc0445624
Nov 29 22:56:18 coyote kernel: CORE IOCTL: 0xc008561b
Nov 29 22:56:18 coyote kernel: CORE IOCTL: 0xc0445624
Nov 29 22:56:18 coyote kernel: CORE IOCTL: 0xc008561b
Nov 29 22:56:18 coyote kernel: CORE IOCTL: 0xc0445624
Nov 29 22:56:18 coyote kernel: CORE IOCTL: 0xc008561b
Nov 29 22:56:18 coyote kernel: CORE IOCTL: 0xc0445624
Nov 29 22:56:18 coyote kernel: CORE IOCTL: 0xc008561b
Nov 29 22:56:18 coyote kernel: CORE IOCTL: 0xc02c5638
Nov 29 22:56:18 coyote kernel: CORE IOCTL: 0xc054561d
Nov 29 22:56:18 coyote last message repeated 2 times
Nov 29 22:56:18 coyote kernel: CORE IOCTL: 0xc008561c
Nov 29 22:56:18 coyote kernel: CORE IOCTL: 0xc0445624
Nov 29 22:56:18 coyote kernel: CORE IOCTL: 0xc008561c
Nov 29 22:56:18 coyote kernel: CORE IOCTL: 0xc054561d
Nov 29 22:56:49 coyote last message repeated 907 times
Nov 29 22:57:50 coyote last message repeated 1828 times
Nov 29 22:58:46 coyote last message repeated 1703 times
Nov 29 22:58:46 coyote kernel: CORE IOCTL: 0xc008561c

Other than that, its fine in ntsc.

I'm currently doing a 'modprobe cx88-dvb' to load everything, but you
mention using insmod with arguments above, so please clarify as to how
I should proceed after applying that patch to, oh lets live dangerously
and do it to 2.6.15-rc4.

>Cheers,
>Mauro.

-- 
Cheers, Gene
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