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Getting Avermedia AverTV E506 DVB-T to work

linux-dvb Emanoil Kotsev 1 participant 1 message Jun 23, 2008 1 message not in the archive Media (V4L/DVB)

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I am struggling to enjoy DVB-T on my AverTV E506

PCMCIA card. It seams

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I'm doing something terribly wrong but I cannot

find the solution on my

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own. I am grateful for any help provided.

which program are you using for TV (I'm using kplayer that runs mplayer)

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What I did so far:

I'm running Gentoo with a 2.6.24-r8 kernel on my

Centrino Laptop. I have

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selected "Video for Linux" (nothing else, no

cards, no frontends, no

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chips..) as a module in my kernel configuration and

compiled the

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"v4l-dvb" drivers from the mercurial

repository. I also have obtained

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the (hopefully) correct firmware for my card.

Well when I plug the PCMCIA device in this is what

dmesg shows me:

This one seems to be OK.

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xc2028 5-0061: creating new instance
xc2028 5-0061: type set to XCeive xc2028/xc3028 tuner xc2028 5-0061: Loading 80 firmware images from

xc3028-v27.fw, type:

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xc2028 firmware, ver 2.7
xc2028 5-0061: Loading firmware for type=BASE F8MHZ

(3), id

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0000000000000000.
(0), id 00000000000000ff:
xc2028 5-0061: Loading firmware for type=(0), id

0000000100000007.

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SCODE (20000000), id 0000000100000007:
xc2028 5-0061: Loading SCODE for type=MONO SCODE

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HAS_IF_5320 (60008000),

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id 0000000800000007.
saa7133[0]: registered device video0 [v4l2]
saa7133[0]: registered device vbi0
saa7133[0]: registered device radio0

Analog TV works with this setup, but I have no signs

of DVB-T. No

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/dev/dvb devices are created although the module for

Your DVB device is vbi0

/dev/vbi0

see the last lines from your dmsg

I've tried vlc too it works also very well. You just have to point your tv app to read from vbi0

I think this is your problem

regards

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