Gigabyte GT-P8000

A DVB-T Hybrid PCI card from Gigabyte.

This card does not work out the box, but since it uses Philips chipsets (saa713x and 18271) that have drivers written for them already, it should be possible to configure it.

Overview/Features

• Hybrid DVB-T / Analog (NTS/PAL/SECAM) / FM Radio
• PCI interface
• IR remote control

Inputs

• Antenna for DVB-T / Analog
• S-Video / composite
• Composite RCA Jack for FM
• IR Remote Control Sensor

Components Used

• NXP 18271 (tuner)
• NXP 7131E (decoder)

Identification

# lspci -vnn:
00:09.0 Multimedia controller [0480]: Philips Semiconductors
SAA7131/SAA7133/SAA7135 Video Broadcast Decoder [1131:7133] (rev d1)
      Subsystem: Giga-byte Technology Device [1458:9004]
      Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 11
      Memory at e6000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=2K]
      Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 2
      Kernel driver in use: saa7134
      Kernel modules: saa7134

Making it Work

Unknown

Firmware

Unknown

Drivers

Unknown

Sample Kernel Output

# dmseg
[ 3089.801191] saa7130/34: v4l2 driver version 0.2.15 loaded
[ 3089.801419] saa7133[0]: found at 0000:00:09.0, rev: 209, irq: 11, latency: 32, mmio: 0xe6000000
[ 3089.801443] saa7133[0]: subsystem: 1458:9004, board: UNKNOWN/GENERIC [card=0,autodetected]
[ 3089.801656] saa7133[0]: board init: gpio is 40000 
[ 3089.952088] saa7133[0]: i2c eeprom 00: 58 14 04 90 54 20 1c 00 43 43 a9 1c 55 d2 b2 92
[ 3089.952125] saa7133[0]: i2c eeprom 10: ff ff ff ff ff 20 ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
[ 3089.952153] saa7133[0]: i2c eeprom 20: 01 40 01 02 02 01 01 03 08 ff 00 b3 ff ff ff ff
[ 3089.952180] saa7133[0]: i2c eeprom 30: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
[ 3089.952206] saa7133[0]: i2c eeprom 40: 50 35 00 c0 96 10 05 32 d5 15 0e 00 ff ff ff ff
[ 3089.952233] saa7133[0]: i2c eeprom 50: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
[ 3089.952260] saa7133[0]: i2c eeprom 60: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
[ 3089.952287] saa7133[0]: i2c eeprom 70: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
[ 3089.952314] saa7133[0]: i2c eeprom 80: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
[ 3089.952340] saa7133[0]: i2c eeprom 90: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
[ 3089.952367] saa7133[0]: i2c eeprom a0: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
[ 3089.952394] saa7133[0]: i2c eeprom b0: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
[ 3089.952421] saa7133[0]: i2c eeprom c0: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
[ 3089.952447] saa7133[0]: i2c eeprom d0: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
[ 3089.952474] saa7133[0]: i2c eeprom e0: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
[ 3089.952501] saa7133[0]: i2c eeprom f0: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
[ 3089.953430] saa7133[0]: registered device video0 [v4l2]
[ 3089.953507] saa7133[0]: registered device vbi0
[ 3090.023006] saa7134 ALSA driver for DMA sound loaded
[ 3090.023158] saa7133[0]/alsa: saa7133[0] at 0xe6000000 irq 11 registered as card -2

Remote Control Support

Unknown

External Links

• Gigabyte GT-P8000 product page

Other

The Gigabyte GT-P6000 uses the same chipsets as this card, but doesn't have DVB-T enabled.