[linux-dvb] AverMedia USB DVB-T Volar

[Jose Carlos Garcia Sogo]

El sáb, 24-06-2006 a las 00:42 +0200, Jose Carlos Garcia Sogo escribió:
> El dom, 18-06-2006 a las 01:08 +0200, Jose Carlos Garcia Sogo escribió:
> > Changing IDs, as Eduardo Bellido suggested in his mail, makes the device
> > to be detected, but firmware cannot be loaded:
> > 
> > Jun 18 00:38:47 gimli kernel: dvb-usb: downloading firmware from file
> > 'dvb-usb-avertv-a800-02.fw'
> > Jun 18 00:38:47 gimli kernel: dvb-usb: could not stop the USB controller
> > CPU.
> > Jun 18 00:38:47 gimli kernel: dvb-usb: error while transferring firmware
> > (transferred size: -32, block size: 16)
> > Jun 18 00:38:47 gimli kernel: dvb-usb: firmware download failed at 21
> > with -22
> > Jun 18 00:38:47 gimli kernel: dvb_usb_a800: probe of 4-3:1.0 failed with
> > error -22
> 
>  The "could not stop the USB controller CPU makes me think that this
> device is not using the Cypruss FX2 chip, but other one. I would like to
> know how could I investigate which chip is being used.

  Ok, I have opened the thing to see what it had inside. The chips I can
see are:

  + DibCom 7700B chip (though I only can find in their website a 7700P
one)
  + MT2060F chip
  + EPCOS X7350P chip

 So I think that this device (A808) has nothing to do with former A800
device from AverMedia. As they support Linux yet I am comfident we can
make it supported with a free driver as well, but I also think it is
going to take longer than expeected.

 I have some photos of device internals if you want to see them.

 Cheers,

-- 
Jose Carlos Garcia Sogo
   jsogo at debian.org
-- 
Jose Carlos Garcia Sogo
   jsogo at debian.org