Re: Gene's pcHDTV 3000 analog problem

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

On Thursday 01 December 2005 17:06, Perry Gilfillan wrote:
>Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote:
>> 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).
>
>This has fixed it for me!!  I compiled todays cvs, with out this patch,
>to watch it fail, then added the line as noted, and reloaded the
> modules without rebooting, and it worked.  I did a cold start to see
> that it is repeatable, and it continues to work.  I used no extra
> parameters, so the defaults are working fine.

I haven't built it yet, had to apply the patch by hand for some reason
here, after doing a cvs up -D today.

2.6.15-rc4 under construction to test it.
>
>Cheers,
>
>Perry
>
>>Cheers,
>>Mauro.
>>
>>
>>----------------------------------------------------------------------
>>--
>>
>>Index: linux/drivers/media/video/cx88/cx88-cards.c
>>===================================================================
>>RCS file:
>> /cvs/video4linux/v4l-dvb/linux/drivers/media/video/cx88/cx88-cards.c,
>>v retrieving revision 1.108
>>diff -u -p -r1.108 cx88-cards.c
>>--- linux/drivers/media/video/cx88/cx88-cards.c	25 Nov 2005 10:24:13
>> -0000	1.108 +++ linux/drivers/media/video/cx88/cx88-cards.c	1 Dec
>> 2005 20:56:43 -0000 @@ -569,6 +569,7 @@ struct cx88_board
>> cx88_boards[] = {
>> 		.radio_type     = UNSET,
>> 		.tuner_addr	= ADDR_UNSET,
>> 		.radio_addr	= ADDR_UNSET,
>>+		.tda9887_conf   = TDA9887_PRESENT,
>> 		.input          = {{
>> 			.type   = CX88_VMUX_TELEVISION,
>> 			.vmux   = 0,

-- 
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