[linux-dvb] Pinnacle PCTV (Dazzle) 300i maybe i2c problems with newer code?

[Tim Small]

José Luis Bolos wrote:

>I was the one having problems with the 300i, and I manage to get it
>running with 2.6.12.5 and 20050627, but I'm having the same problems
>as you, there's extreme blockyness and artifacts in audio and video. I
>was starting to think than that may be reception problems, but  maybe
>it isn't. The card is running ok in analog mode. I have tried to get
>the card running in windows with pinnacle's software (which is utterly
>cr**, btw) but it refuses to store the detected digital channels.
>
>Are they (the artifacts) a known bug? is there a way to get the card
>running correctly? Any help is appreciated.
>  
>

If I tune the card under 2.6.12/20050627, and then reboot into 2.6.14.1 
+ current CVS, the output looks fine, and works for about 10 seconds, so 
it looks like the artefacts are fixed in the current CVS code.  It then 
stutters, and stops.  I get this sort of thing in the kernel message log 
(saa7134  i2c_debug=2):

kernel: start xfer
kernel: send address
kernel: saa7134[0]: i2c data => 0x3c
kernel: saa7134[0]: i2c stat <= BUSY
last message repeated 4 times
kernel: saa7134[0]: i2c stat <= DONE_WRITE
kernel: saa7134[0]: i2c stat <= DONE_WRITE
kernel: write bytes
kernel: saa7134[0]: i2c data => 0x1
kernel: saa7134[0]: i2c stat <= BUSY
last message repeated 6 times
kernel: saa7134[0]: i2c stat <= ARB_LOST
kernel: saa7134[0]: i2c stat <= ARB_LOST
kernel: mt352_read_register: readreg error (reg=1, ret==-5)
kernel: saa7134[0]: i2c stat <= ARB_LOST
kernel: saa7134[0]: i2c reset
kernel: saa7134[0]: i2c stat <= ARB_LOST
kernel: saa7134[0]: i2c stat => ARB_LOST
kernel: saa7134[0]: i2c stat <= ARB_LOST
kernel: saa7134[0]: i2c stat <= IDLE
kernel: saa7134[0]: i2c attr => NOP
kernel: start xfer
kernel: send address
kernel: saa7134[0]: i2c data => 0x3c
kernel: saa7134[0]: i2c stat <= BUSY
last message repeated 15 times
kernel: mt352_read_register: readreg error (reg=0, ret==-5)
kernel: saa7134[0]: i2c stat <= TO_ARB


Which again looks i2c problems with the tuner, I think.  Anyone got any 
ideas?  Anything at all?  I don't really know much about i2c (apart from 
the fact that it is a low speed serial bus, with 2 wires)...  If not, 
then I'd guess the next job is to get the MT352, and SAA7134 data sheets 
and/or errata?


Tim.