Compro T300 and E700 video/TVcards install struggle

[wedgetail]

I have KDE2010.12 fully updated. Compro Videomate E700 pci card left over from XP days where it works fine, at this stage little luck with Linux (I expected that, but have left the card in its slot)

Then got a chance to try out a Compro T300 card which by now looked like it should be a a piece of cake  however that way of thinking is also a warning to me.  Well seems like it will have to be done the hard way.

I am new to installing TV cards but not using a DVB-T USB dongle. The card seems to do all the right things on install.  I will start with dmesg output.

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[gert@localhost ~]$ dmesg |grep saa
saa7130/34: v4l2 driver version 0.2.15 loaded
saa7134 0000:05:01.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 21 (level, low) -> IRQ 21
saa7134[0]: found at 0000:05:01.0, rev: 1, irq: 21, latency: 64, mmio: 0xfebffc00
saa7134[0]: subsystem: 185b:c900, board: Compro Videomate DVB-T300 [card=70,autodetected]
saa7134[0]: board init: gpio is 843f00
input: saa7134 IR (Compro Videomate DV as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1e.0/0000:05:01.0/input/input4
IRQ 21/saa7134[0]: IRQF_DISABLED is not guaranteed on shared IRQs
saa7134[0]: i2c eeprom 00: 5b 18 00 c9 54 20 1c 00 43 43 a9 1c 55 d2 b2 92
saa7134[0]: i2c eeprom 10: 00 ff 86 0f ff 20 ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
saa7134[0]: i2c eeprom 20: 01 40 01 03 03 ff 03 01 08 ff 00 87 ff ff ff ff
saa7134[0]: i2c eeprom 30: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
saa7134[0]: i2c eeprom 40: ff 02 00 c2 86 10 ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
saa7134[0]: i2c eeprom 50: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff cb
saa7134[0]: i2c eeprom 60: 34 ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
saa7134[0]: i2c eeprom 70: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
saa7134[0]: i2c eeprom 80: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
saa7134[0]: i2c eeprom 90: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
saa7134[0]: i2c eeprom a0: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
saa7134[0]: i2c eeprom b0: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
saa7134[0]: i2c eeprom c0: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
saa7134[0]: i2c eeprom d0: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
saa7134[0]: i2c eeprom e0: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
saa7134[0]: i2c eeprom f0: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
tuner 0-0043: chip found @ 0x86 (saa7134[0])
tuner 0-0061: chip found @ 0xc2 (saa7134[0])
saa7134[0]: registered device video0 [v4l2]
saa7134[0]: registered device vbi0
DVB: registering new adapter (saa7134[0])
saa7134 ALSA driver for DMA sound loaded
IRQ 21/saa7134[0]: IRQF_DISABLED is not guaranteed on shared IRQs
saa7134[0]/alsa: saa7134[0] at 0xfebffc00 irq 21 registered as card -1
[gert@localhost ~]$

From searching on the internet this seems to indicate all is well, but I don't seem to be able to make contact with the card.

I installed w_scan and this fails to find any card? (the example shows the German (DE) but same result with (AU) which I will retest when I get back to the OS I am using)

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[gert@localhost ~]$ w_scan -ft -c DE -x >/home/gert/Documents/110125_ initial_tuning_data.glk
w_scan version 20101204 (compiled for DVB API 5.1)
using settings for GERMANY
DVB aerial
DVB-T Europe
frontend_type DVB-T, channellist 4
output format initial tuning data
Info: using DVB adapter auto detection.
main:3023: FATAL: ***** NO USEABLE DVB CARD FOUND. *****
Please check wether dvb driver is loaded and
verify that no dvb application (i.e. vdr) is running.
[gert@localhost ~]$

At this stage any hints appreciated just to get my brain out of a groove.

[wedgetail]

It is slow going with the T300 card but I have found out that I had the bad luck of trying my first attempts on a system that has mythTV installed. From internet search I have found that apparently mythTV monopolises card(s) so when I tried to be cautious and test the T300 by running via meTV and/or kaffeine no go.

I have now moved the test to a copy of MiniMe where I have installed kaffeine and VLC.  I have tried VLC no luck and decided that kaffeine must be working before I move to any other application.

I go to:

1..  Television > Configure Televeison > General Options > Update Scan data over Internet (seems to be working)

2.. Devise1 TAB > Shows my device is a TDA10046H DVB-T and source is AutoScan (also very likely)

Back to Televison TAB

1.. Select Channels > Start Scan  (seems to work signal and snr keeps changing takes quite some time)

I did expect the scan result to show up in the right hand pane, as scan progressed, but nothing ever shows here.

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/home/gert/.kde4/share/apps/kaffeine
In this directory is a number of usefull files for kaffeine

config.dvb

[device]
deviceId=P11317134185bc900
frontendName=Philips TDA10046H DVB-T
configCount=1
[config]
type=2
name=Terrestrial
scanSource=AUTO-Normal
timeout=1500

The red in above is more for my own info to remind me that the card shows this in lspci

scanfile.dvb

[dvb-t/au-Hobart]
T 184625000 7MHz 3/4 NONE QAM64 8k 1/8 NONE
T 191500000 7MHz 3/4 NONE QAM64 8k 1/16 NONE
T 205500000 7MHz 2/3 NONE QAM64 8k 1/8 NONE
T 212500000 7MHz 3/4 NONE QAM64 8k 1/16 NONE
T 219500000 7MHz 2/3 NONE QAM64 8k 1/8 NONE

Will spare you the content, approx 8000 lines of information, worldwide channel listing I think, including the Australians that I will be needing.  I also thought I had selected Australia in the scan ?? I have just listed one section of what is in this file. Starting to wonder if this is correct.

/pgdata.dvb
playlistsK4

These two above are empty.

Any hints from T300 owners?

[wedgetail]

I am going to re-visit this topic as I have gained a bit more understanding.  I have gathered more information and from that I have inferred that the card is installed and should work but the output is nil.

What I would like to do is rmmod -v as follows

rmmod saa7134-alsa
rmmod saa7134-dvb
rmmod saa7134
rmmod tuner
rmmod tda9887

and then modprobe them back in again.  I do however not get out of the starting blocks as modules in use

[root@KDE-mini ~]# rmmod -v saa7134-alsa
ERROR: Module saa7134_alsa is in use
[root@KDE-mini ~]#

there is an option -f but dire warning of pending disaster. Therfor before I do I would like some advice?

How do I go about it?

[AS]

try:  "modprobe -r <module_name>

AS

[wedgetail]

AS

[root@KDE-mini gert]# modprobe -r saa7134
FATAL: Module saa7134 is in use.
[root@KDE-mini gert]#

Scratching my head a bit, but I am going to reboot and see where I get as I found that I had saa7134 in preload, just commented it out.

[root@KDE-mini ~]# cat /etc/modprobe.preload

Edit:
Doing no pre-load of saa7134 and rebooting has made no difference the modprobe -r

There is a slight change, not sure what the is casuing this, perhaps the change in pre-load. The DVB-T card number is autodetected correctly I believe though not as an E700 but as T-300, a bit unhappy about this but here are the data.

[gert@KDE-mini-Cprog ~]$ lspci
...........................
04:00.0 Multimedia video controller: Micronas Semiconductor Holding AG Device 0720
05:01.0 Multimedia controller: Philips Semiconductors SAA7134/SAA7135HL Video Broadcast Decoder (rev 01)
.....................
[gert@KDE-mini-Cprog ~]$

[root@KDE-mini-Cprog ~]# lspci -vvnn

05:01.0 Multimedia controller [0480]: Philips Semiconductors SAA7134/SAA7135HL Video Broadcast Decoder [1131:7134] (rev 01)
        Subsystem: Compro Technology, Inc. Videomate DVB-T300 [185b:c900]
        Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx-
        Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx-
        Latency: 64 (21000ns min, 8000ns max)
        Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 21
        Region 0: Memory at febffc00 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=1K]

Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 1
                Flags: PMEClk- DSI- D1+ D2+ AuxCurrent=0mA PME(D0-,D1-,D2-,D3hot-,D3cold-)
                Status: D0 NoSoftRst- PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=1 PME-

        Kernel driver in use: saa7134
        Kernel modules: saa7134

[gert@KDE-mini-Cprog ~]$ lsmod | grep dvb
saa7134_dvb            22196  0
videobuf_dvb            3922  1 saa7134_dvb
dvb_core               76614  1 videobuf_dvb
saa7134               137245  2 saa7134_alsa,saa7134_dvb
videobuf_dma_sg         7080  3 saa7134_alsa,saa7134_dvb,saa7134
videobuf_core          13546  3 videobuf_dvb,saa7134,videobuf_dma_sg
i2c_core               16500  11 tda1004x,saa7134_dvb,tuner_simple,tda9887,tda8290,tuner,saa7134,nvidia,v4l2_common,videodev,tveeprom
[gert@KDE-mini-Cprog ~]$

[root@KDE-mini gert]# dmesg | grep saa713
saa7130/34: v4l2 driver version 0.2.16 loaded
saa7134 0000:05:01.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 21 (level, low) -> IRQ 21
saa7134[0]: found at 0000:05:01.0, rev: 1, irq: 21, latency: 64, mmio: 0xfebffc00
saa7134[0]: subsystem: 185b:c900, board: Compro Videomate DVB-T300 [card=70,autodetected]     <-------- www ----- -------------- www gert card is ok against list

                                     70 -> Compro Videomate DVB-T300 [185b:c900]  
                                     http://www.techsupportteam.org/forum/linux-alternative-os/5417-saa7134-pci-tv-tuner-cards-linux.html



saa7134[0]: board init: gpio is 843f00
input: saa7134 IR (Compro Videomate DV as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1e.0/0000:05:01.0/rc/rc0/input4
rc0: saa7134 IR (Compro Videomate DV as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1e.0/0000:05:01.0/rc/rc0

saa7134[0]: i2c eeprom 00: 13 10 00 01 04 00 18 00 43 40 08 0c 40 00 00 10   < www gert 1013 1000 what is going on here, because of the removed pre-load???
saa7134[0]: i2c eeprom 10: 00 d4 80 03 04 00 bc 8c c0 27 10 50 36 e7 d1 00
saa7134[0]: i2c eeprom 20: 01 40 00 03 00 20 01 00 00 08 00 03 2b 58 1b 5b
saa7134[0]: i2c eeprom 30: e0 85 ff ff ff 87 ff 00 01 5e 00 20 00 01 00 71
saa7134[0]: i2c eeprom 40: d1 00 00 40 06 00 01 20 cb 50 10 20 d1 d4 b8 15
saa7134[0]: i2c eeprom 50: 06 83 fa ff f7 58 1a 8d e0 00 00 41 81 02 78 c0
saa7134[0]: i2c eeprom 60: 30 12 03 96 bc 79 ab cc 7f 50 26 87 c0 ff 00 87
saa7134[0]: i2c eeprom 70: b8 9f c4 9f fc 8d c0 7f ff 50 46 5e 00 7f ff 20
saa7134[0]: i2c eeprom 80: ab 50 a0 9f c4 9f fc 8d c0 80 00 50 44 5e 00 80
saa7134[0]: i2c eeprom 90: 00 20 ab 50 10 3c ab d4 b8 15 04 83 fa ff fc 58
saa7134[0]: i2c eeprom a0: 1a 8d e0 00 02 51 82 71 78 cc 05 52 56 5e 1a 3e
saa7134[0]: i2c eeprom b0: 7f 86 b9 83 e8 f0 00 8c c0 7c fe 50 d3 d4 b8 13
saa7134[0]: i2c eeprom c0: 04 77 60 96 bc 8c c0 01 f4 50 16 5b 20 d4 b8 12
saa7134[0]: i2c eeprom d0: 00 c2 fd 80 bb 51 30 71 78 cc 05 50 d6 5e 1a 7d
saa7134[0]: i2c eeprom e0: 00 86 b9 5e 1b fa 00 83 e8 f0 00 83 e9 f0 00 8c
saa7134[0]: i2c eeprom f0: b9 50 76 50 10 20 ab d4 b8 12 00 c0 02 d4 bc 12
tuner 0-0043: chip found @ 0x86 (saa7134[0])   <-------- www ----- =======  -------------- www gert tuner=43 - Philips NTSC MK3 (FM1236MK3 or FM1236/F)
tuner 0-0061: chip found @ 0xc2 (saa7134[0])   <-------- www ----- =======  -------------- www gert tuner=61 - Tena TNF9533-D/IF/TNF9533-B/DF
saa7134[0]: registered device video0 [v4l2]
saa7134[0]: registered device vbi0
DVB: registering new adapter (saa7134[0])
saa7134 ALSA driver for DMA sound loaded
saa7134[0]/alsa: saa7134[0] at 0xfebffc00 irq 21 registered as card -2
[root@KDE-mini gert]#

[root@KDE-mini gert]# dmesg |grep tuner
i2c-core: driver [tuner] using legacy suspend method
i2c-core: driver [tuner] using legacy resume method
tuner 0-0043: chip found @ 0x86 (saa7134[0])
tuner 0-0061: chip found @ 0xc2 (saa7134[0])
tuner-simple 0-0061: creating new instance   .......................<-------- www ----- ======= -------------- www gert
tuner-simple 0-0061: type set to 67 (Philips TD1316 Hybrid Tuner)   <-------- www ----- =======  -------------- www gert tuner=67 - Philips TD1316 Hybrid Tuner
[root@KDE-mini gert]#

[AS]

AS

[root@KDE-mini gert]# modprobe -r saa7134
FATAL: Module saa7134 is in use.
[root@KDE-mini gert]#

Scratching my head a bit, but I am going to reboot and see where I get as I found that I had saa7134 in preload, just commented it out.

[root@KDE-mini ~]# cat /etc/modprobe.preload

look at:

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lsmod | grep saa7134
probably you need to unload first some other module which actually "require" saa7134".

also, this could be handy:

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modprobe --show-depends <module name>
AS

[wedgetail]

AS

I think now that I am off on the wrong track, will explain below, but here are the 'depends'

[root@KDE-mini gert]# modprobe --show-depends saa7134
insmod /lib/modules/2.6.38.8-pclos3.bfs/kernel/drivers/i2c/i2c-core.ko.gz
insmod /lib/modules/2.6.38.8-pclos3.bfs/kernel/drivers/media/video/tveeprom.ko.gz
insmod /lib/modules/2.6.38.8-pclos3.bfs/kernel/drivers/media/video/videobuf-core.ko.gz
insmod /lib/modules/2.6.38.8-pclos3.bfs/kernel/drivers/media/video/videobuf-dma-sg.ko.gz
insmod /lib/modules/2.6.38.8-pclos3.bfs/kernel/drivers/media/video/videodev.ko.gz
insmod /lib/modules/2.6.38.8-pclos3.bfs/kernel/drivers/media/video/v4l2-common.ko.gz
insmod /lib/modules/2.6.38.8-pclos3.bfs/kernel/drivers/media/rc/rc-core.ko.gz
insmod /lib/modules/2.6.38.8-pclos3.bfs/kernel/drivers/media/video/saa7134/saa7134.ko.gz
[root@KDE-mini gert]#

I have dropped in more information in my previous thread (for my own record later, when I save the thread) and from that information I conclude that the card is very close to running.  This time however I have looked harder at the tuner that has been detected, this is different to previous as I am not sure that a tuner has been 'installed' previously.

Making an assumption that the TV card is installed properly then I should now be able to run a scan utitlity (have w_scan here) of some sort and this should pick up valid frequencies if the tuner works??

This is where I think I have the problem, I have run w_scan for AU and it has not picked up valid freqs.  I propose to stay with card 70 and then just bash my way through likely tuners.  This would be my best effort with my current knowledge  

[AS]

[gert@KDE-mini-Cprog ~]$ lsmod | grep dvb
saa7134_dvb            22196  0
videobuf_dvb            3922  1 saa7134_dvb
dvb_core               76614  1 videobuf_dvb
saa7134               137245  2 saa7134_alsa,saa7134_dvb
videobuf_dma_sg         7080  3 saa7134_alsa,saa7134_dvb,saa7134
videobuf_core          13546  3 videobuf_dvb,saa7134,videobuf_dma_sg
i2c_core               16500  11 tda1004x,saa7134_dvb,tuner_simple,tda9887,tda8290,tuner,saa7134,nvidia,v4l2_common,videodev,tveeprom
[gert@KDE-mini-Cprog ~]$

looking at lsmod output it appear that the main module is saa7134_dvb, therefore you may try to run

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modprobe -r saa7134_dvb
you can't remove  saa7134 module while saa7134_dvb is in use ...

AS

[wedgetail]

AS
I am not sure where my brain is, I will blame it on the wee hours this way.

saa7134_dvb            22196  0

I must ask, is this the line that tells which module is the 'pack leader'   

[AS]

AS
I am not sure where my brain is, I will blame it on the wee hours this way.

saa7134_dvb            22196  0

I must ask, is this the line that tells which module is the 'pack leader'    

yes, to better say the following show you that saa7134 is used from saa7134_alsa and from saa7134_dvb

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saa7134               137245  2 saa7134_alsa,saa7134_dvb

[wedgetail]

AS
Thanks, I thought it was the other way, I hope I can remember for a few months.

Well with the tuner = 67 doing a w_scan

[root@KDE-mini gert]# w_scan -ft -c AU -k
w_scan version 20101204 (compiled for DVB API 5.1)
using settings for AUSTRALIA
DVB aerial
DVB-T AU
frontend_type DVB-T, channellist 3
output format kaffeine channels.dvb
Info: using DVB adapter auto detection.
        /dev/dvb/adapter0/frontend0 -> DVB-T "Philips TDA10046H DVB-T": good :-)
Using DVB-T frontend (adapter /dev/dvb/adapter0/frontend0)
-_-_-_-_ Getting frontend capabilities-_-_-_-_
Using DVB API 5.2
frontend Philips TDA10046H DVB-T supports
INVERSION_AUTO
QAM_AUTO
TRANSMISSION_MODE_AUTO
GUARD_INTERVAL_AUTO
HIERARCHY_AUTO not supported, trying HIERARCHY_NONE.
FEC_AUTO
-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_
Scanning 7MHz frequencies...
177500: (time: 00:01)
..................
.......................
816500: (time: 04:55)
816625: (time: 04:57)

ERROR: Sorry - i couldn't get any working frequency/transponder
 Nothing to scan!!
[root@KDE-mini gert]#

Absolutely no frequency picked up, ZZZzzzz....

[wedgetail]

AS

The temptation was too big before I go, perhaps it would have been better if I left it for the night.   
Did I misunderstand? I have removed saa7134_dvb but still can't take out saa7134?

[root@KDE-mini gert]# modprobe -r saa7134_dvb
[root@KDE-mini gert]# modprobe -r saa7134
FATAL: Module saa7134 is in use.
[root@KDE-mini gert]# modprobe -r saa7134_alsa
FATAL: Module saa7134_alsa is in use.
[root@KDE-mini gert]#

[AS]

AS

The temptation was too big before I go, perhaps it would have been better if I left it for the night.   
Did I misunderstand? I have removed saa7134_dvb but still can't take out saa7134?

[root@KDE-mini gert]# modprobe -r saa7134_dvb
[root@KDE-mini gert]# modprobe -r saa7134
FATAL: Module saa7134 is in use.
[root@KDE-mini gert]# modprobe -r saa7134_alsa
FATAL: Module saa7134_alsa is in use.
[root@KDE-mini gert]#

You are correct!   

tomorrow restart from here: 
http://www.pclinuxos.com/forum/index.php/topic,86186.msg891410.html#msg891410

AS

[wedgetail]

AS

Hmmmmm,  I think I will start pulling out hardware. I have tried two other KDE-mini systems slightly different configurations but same problem, modprobe -r the last system was my test of kernel 3.2.x which is very basic.

[root@KDE-mini-kernel3x gert]# modprobe -r saa7134_dvb
[root@KDE-mini-kernel3x gert]# lsmod |grep saa7134_dvb
[root@KDE-mini-kernel3x gert]# modprobe -r saa7134_alsa
FATAL: Module saa7134_alsa is in use.
[root@KDE-mini-kernel3x gert]#

Above is meant to show that saa7134_dvb was removed, the second lined returned nothing so the module is gone.
The 3rd line, trying to remove the saa7134_alsa no luck.

[AS]

AS

Hmmmmm,  I think I will start pulling out hardware. I have tried two other KDE-mini systems slightly different configurations but same problem, modprobe -r the last system was my test of kernel 3.2.x which is very basic.

[root@KDE-mini-kernel3x gert]# modprobe -r saa7134_dvb
[root@KDE-mini-kernel3x gert]# lsmod |grep saa7134_dvb
[root@KDE-mini-kernel3x gert]# modprobe -r saa7134_alsa
FATAL: Module saa7134_alsa is in use.
[root@KDE-mini-kernel3x gert]#

Above is meant to show that saa7134_dvb was removed, the second lined returned nothing so the module is gone.
The 3rd line, trying to remove the saa7134_alsa no luck.

Hi wedgetail,

did you had a coffee this morning ? 

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lsmod | grep saa7134_alsawill show you the dependency of saa7134_alsa   

AS