Pinnacle PCTV HD Card (800i)
A hybrid ATSC PCI card from Pinnacle.
It is supported under Linux, but drivers are currently available for it only from LinuxTV (see below for driver detail). Inclusion of support into the kernel will likely occur for 2.6.25.
Overview/Features
A hybrid device that supports analog, ATSC (8-VSB) and digital cable (QAM) TV sources. The card also supports analog A/V inputs, and has an IR remote control input.
It appears that it may be also being sold as the Yuan PG583Q. Yuan lists two models (PG583 and PG583Q) -- simply a wild guess, but perhaps the former uses a XC3028 (not QAM capable) and the later XC5000 (QAM capable) ?? The Yuan boards also have a connector of sorts on the back portion of the PCB that is not present on the Pinnacle board.
Components Used
- Xceive XC5000 (tuner & analog IF demodulator) [1]
- Samsung S5H1409 (digital demodulator) [2]
- Conexant CX23883 (A/V decoder & PCI bridge) [3]
- Cirrus 5340 CZZ (audio ADC) [4]
- Atmel ATMLH726 (8-pin eeprom)
Identification
PCI subsytem ID is: 11bd:0051
Output of lspci -vvnn:
00:0a.0 Multimedia video controller [0400]: Conexant CX23880/1/2/3 PCI Video and Audio Decoder [14f1:8800] (rev 05) Subsystem: Pinnacle Systems Inc. Unknown device [11bd:0051] Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV+ VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- Latency: 32 (5000ns min, 13750ns max), Cache Line Size: 32 bytes Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 19 Region 0: Memory at dc000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16M] Capabilities: [44] Vital Product Data Capabilities: [4c] Power Management version 2 Flags: PMEClk- DSI+ D1- D2- AuxCurrent=0mA PME(D0-,D1-,D2-,D3hot-,D3cold-) Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME- 00:0a.1 Multimedia controller [0480]: Conexant CX23880/1/2/3 PCI Video and Audio Decoder [Audio Port] [14f1:8801] (rev 05) Subsystem: Pinnacle Systems Inc. Unknown device [11bd:0051] Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV+ VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- Latency: 32 (1000ns min, 63750ns max), Cache Line Size: 32 bytes Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 19 Region 0: Memory at dd000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16M] Capabilities: [4c] Power Management version 2 Flags: PMEClk- DSI+ D1- D2- AuxCurrent=0mA PME(D0-,D1-,D2-,D3hot-,D3cold-) Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME- 00:0a.2 Multimedia controller [0480]: Conexant CX23880/1/2/3 PCI Video and Audio Decoder [MPEG Port] [14f1:8802] (rev 05) Subsystem: Pinnacle Systems Inc. Unknown device [11bd:0051] Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV+ VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- Latency: 32 (1500ns min, 22000ns max), Cache Line Size: 32 bytes Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 5 Region 0: Memory at de000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16M] Capabilities: [4c] Power Management version 2 Flags: PMEClk- DSI+ D1- D2- AuxCurrent=0mA PME(D0-,D1-,D2-,D3hot-,D3cold-) Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME-
Making it Work
Firmware
Drivers
Full support for the device is near complete -- both the analog and digital sides of the card are working fine now. Only the remote control seems to need a bit of work (see Remote Control Support section below).
The drivers have now been moved from an stoth experimental repo to: http://linuxtv.org/hg/~stoth/v4l-dvb
A pull request has been issued, and they will soon be merged with the mainline v4l-dvb repo. After which time, the drivers will be removed from the stoth development repo and you will only be able to obtain them from mainline.
In either case of repo, just select the .bz2 on the top left of the page, then build them via running "make" followed by "make install". More thorough build instructions can be found here.
Sample kernel output
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Remote Control Support
The card uses the CX2388x's standard IR interface, and, at present, the remote control does work, but it is obvious that a new mapping table is required for the card (as most keys, when pressed, will result in a report of being "unknown" and the few keys that do generate an accepted key press are incorrect). Someone will likely have this fairly trivial matter resolved soon enough.