From: Matthias Schwarzott <zzam@gentoo.org>
To: Eduard Huguet <eduardhc@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2008 14:33:09 +0100
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Subject: Re: [linux-dvb] Some tests on Avermedia A700
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On Sonntag, 10. Februar 2008, Eduard Huguet wrote:
> En/na Matthias Schwarzott ha escrit:
> > On Samstag, 9. Februar 2008, Eduard Huguet wrote:
> >> Hi, Matthias
> >
> > Hi Eduard!
> >
> >>     I've been performing some tests using your patch for this card.
> >> Right now neither dvbscan nor kaffeine are able to find any channel on
> >> Astra (the sat. my dish points to).
> >>
> >> However, Kaffeine has been giving me some interesting results: with your
> >> driver "as is" it's getting me a 13-14% signal level and ~52% SNR when
> >> scanning. Then, thinking that the problem is related to the low signal I
> >> have I've changed the gain levels used to program the tuner: you were
> >> using default values of 0 for all (in zl1003x_set_gain_params()
> >> function, variables "rfg", "ba" and "bg"), and I've changed them top the
> >> maximum (according to the documentation: rfg=1, ba=bg=3). With that, I'm
> >> getting a 18% signal level, which is higher but still too low apparently
> >> to get a lock.
> >>
> >> I've stopped here, because I really don't have the necessary background
> >> to keep tweaking the driver. I just wanted to share it with you, as
> >> maybe you have some idea on how to continue or what else could be done.
> >
> > So I can do only this guess:
> > I changed demod driver to invert the Polarization voltage for a700 card.
> > This is controlled by member-variable voltage_inverted.
> >
> > static struct mt312_config avertv_a700_mt312 = {
> >         .demod_address = 0x0e,
> >         .voltage_inverted = 1,
> > };
> >
> > Can you try to comment the voltage_inverted line here (saa7134-dvb.c:
> > line 865).
> >
> > BUT: If this helps we need to find out how to detect which card needs
> > this enabled/disabled.
> >
> > Regards
> > Matthias
>
> Hi,
>   Nothing :(. Removing (or setting it to 0) the voltage_inverted member
> doesn't seem to make any difference. I'm starting to suspect that there
> is something wrong with my antennae setup, so I'll test it later using
> an standalone STB or by plugging the card into a Windows computer and
> using the supplied drivers.
>
Even better: Tune to a channel and measure the voltage the card outputs on LNB 
connector.

Regards
Matthias

-- 
Matthias Schwarzott (zzam)

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