[linux-dvb] Re: List of Frontends/PLLs used by DVB devices

[Andrew de Quincey <adq_dvb@lidskialf.net>]

On Saturday 18 Sep 2004 19:19, Manu Abraham wrote:
> On Sat September 18 2004 3:29 pm, Andrew de Quincey wrote:
> > On Saturday 18 Sep 2004 12:13, Andrew de Quincey wrote:
> > > > These satellite cards feature an LG tuner, with SL1925 + STV0299B +
> > > > TSA 5059T in a metallic tuner. these cards have their initialization
> > > > routines for the respective frontends in the ASIC itself. The
> > > > frontend DVB that get loaded are bt878, dst.
> > > >
> > > >  Twinhan VP-1020 (DST MOT) (blue board)  bt878, dst
> > > >  Twinhan VP-1020 A (DST 03T) (red board)  bt878, dst
> > > >  Twinhan VP-1030 (DST-CI)(red board with CI) bt878, dst
> > > >    ?? DST-MCI  ??    bt878, dst
> > > >
> > > > These terrestrial/cable cards, i don't have but they also behave the
> > > > same way, ie all the initialization is in the ASIC
> > > >
> > > >  DCT-NEW
> > > >  DTTNXT
> > > >  DTTDIG
> > > >  DCT-CI
> > >
> > > Ah cool - so we don't really need to care about the frontend hardware
> > > details for tinwhan cards - its all done by dst.c/the ASIC, nice.
> >
> > What are the PCI subsystem IDs for the ones you have? I can only find
> > three devices in bttv:
> >
> > 0x002611bd, BTTV_TWINHAN_DST,   "Pinnacle PCTV SAT CI"
> > 0x00011822, BTTV_TWINHAN_DST,   "Twinhan VisionPlus DVB-T"
> > 0xfc00270f, BTTV_TWINHAN_DST,   "ChainTech digitop DST-1000 DVB-S"
>
> 0000:02:00.0 Multimedia video controller: Brooktree Corporation Bt878 Video
> Capture (rev 11)
>         Subsystem: Unknown device 1822:0001
>         Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 11
>         Memory at faafe000 (32-bit, prefetchable)
>         Capabilities: [44] Vital Product Data
>         Capabilities: [4c] Power Management version 2
>
> 0000:02:00.1 Multimedia controller: Brooktree Corporation Bt878 Audio
> Capture (rev 11)
>         Subsystem: Unknown device 1822:0001
>         Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 11
>         Memory at faaff000 (32-bit, prefetchable)
>         Capabilities: [44] Vital Product Data
>         Capabilities: [4c] Power Management version 2
>
> > None of them seem to match your descriptions above... I take it most of
> > the twinhan cards share the same PCI subsystem ID (I'm guessing
> > 0x1822:0x0001), and the difference is the EEPROM or something.
>
>  Exactly. All the cards have the same PCI ID, except for one DST-MOT card i
> had. The dst_check_ci () in dst.c detects the card types.
>
>  If you see this log, bttv says i have a terrestrial card, but the dst
> frontend driver reports it correctly.

Cool, thanks - thats all those dealt with.