Avermedia M103 TV Card

Hi,

I'm still trying to get my avermedia M103 TV card working.

I have a Philips-Freevents LX3000 PC, on which I’m running PCLInuxOS, kernel 2.6.22.17.tex3 , this has an Avermedia m103 card installed (it’s a mini PCI card). The chips used in the card are the same as those used in the E506,
U5
Philips
SAA7135HL/203
CE9498 04
TSG05422

U4
Zarlink
MT352 CG
0537A WS

U2
XCEIVE
XC3018ACQ (cache)
0536ATW
K42996 2

and very similar to those used in the A16D, however following the instructions on mcentral.de I seem unable to get TV in XAWTV, TVTime or Kaffine.

The following site has managed to get this card working with the experimental code

http://plone.lucidsolutions.co.nz/dvb/t/compiling-mcentral-experimental-v4l-dvb-drivers

Can you please offer some advice, a couple of things that I think may be the problem are

o Do I need to remove the card before I install the experimental code? until now I haven’t because its under the fan, but will if needs must.

o Do I need to disable the installed V4L modules in the kernel, and then re-compile the kernel? This seems very scary, but someone on the gentoo pages did it this way, so I’ll give it ago if necessary

o How do I get the xc3028 to work, there seems to be 3 different approaches, either download the windows firmware and convert, download the picnnicale firmware
(http://mcentral.de/firmware/firmware_pinnacle.tgz), or download the xc3028 firmware (http://mcentral.de/firmware/firmware_v5.tgz) .

Thanks in advance for any help, this is much appreciated, & will hopefully mean I can stop using Vista.

Regards

Rob

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Warning: I'm a newbie with these v4l drivers, and don't claim to be an expert.

Although I got the mcentral.de drivers loaded and running [3], I haven't managed to get the main v4l drivers working with this card yet (linuxtv.org)[2]. I would be interested in assisting anyone to get this done.

I'm using four M103-C modules [1] in a routerboard card [5] to provide a quad tuner card [4].

Looking through the code, it might not involve much more than adding the
PCI ids and the required chipset/tuner to the right table.

I wouldn't have thought so. Once I put the card into the computer I haven't had to remove it. I would unload the existing v4l modules with your kernel. If the v4l drivers are build into your kernel (not modules), then you will need to build a new kernel.

I left the stock kernel v4l modules in place, but put the new modules earlier in the depmod path. As documented in a few places, use all 4vl modules from the same place/version (half from your distro and half from the experimental hg doesn't work).

As noted on the page, I found the firmware_v5.tgz firmware worked. When I tried the v4l driver [1], I used other firmware (but I didn't get it working).

I'm using this card for DVB-T only (I'm ignoring the analog support). The card happily scans, and picks up current & next EIT program data. I haven't got the rest of the system displaying the h.264 stream yet.

Greg.

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[1]
http://plone.lucidsolutions.co.nz/dvb/t/avermedia-m-103c-0405ab34-mini-pci-hybrid-tuner

[2]
http://plone.lucidsolutions.co.nz/dvb/t/compiling-v4l-dvb-drivers-for-saa7134-and-xc2028

[3]
http://plone.lucidsolutions.co.nz/dvb/t/compiling-mcentral-experimental-v4l-dvb-drivers

[4] http://plone.lucidsolutions.co.nz/dvb/t/dvb-t-pci-quad-tuner

[5]
http://plone.lucidsolutions.co.nz/wireless/routerboard-14-pci-to-quad-mini-pci-adapter

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