On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 5:06 PM, Bert Massop <bert.mas...@gmail.com> wrote: > Jan Sundman <jan.sundman <at> aland.net> writes: > >> >> Hi, >> >> I just received a usb DVB-T card and have been trying to get it to work >> under Ubuntu 9.10, but to no avail. dmesg shows the following when >> plugging in the card: >> >> [ 35.280024] usb 2-1: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and >> address 4 >> [ 35.435978] usb 2-1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice >> [ 35.450176] af9015: tuner id:179 not supported, please report! >> [ 35.452891] Afatech DVB-T 2: Fixing fullspeed to highspeed interval: >> 10 -> 7 >> [ 35.453097] input: Afatech DVB-T 2 >> as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:13.2/usb2/2-1/2-1:1.1/input/input8 >> [ 35.453141] generic-usb 0003:15A4:9016.0005: input,hidraw3: USB HID >> v1.01 Keyboard [Afatech DVB-T 2] on usb-0000:00:13.2-1/input1 >> >> lsusb shows: >> Bus 002 Device 005: ID 15a4:9016 >> >> and finally lsmod | grep dvb >> dvb_usb_af9015 37152 0 >> dvb_usb 22892 1 dvb_usb_af9015 >> dvb_core 109716 1 dvb_usb >> >> While googling for an answer to my troubles I came across >> http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=606487&page=5 which hints that >> the card may use the TDA18218HK tuner chip which does not seem to be >> supported currently. >> >> Does anyone have any experience regarding this chip and know what to do >> to get it working. >> >> Best regards, >> >> //Jan >> >> > > Hi Jan, > > As stated in the Ubuntuforums thread, there doesn't seem to be any support for > this chip at the moment. I don't know how hard it is to code support for a > specific tuner, but I'm looking into that right now. > > Hopefully some more experienced coders will join in writing something usable, > as > I don't think I will be able to do it myself. > > Please drop a message if anyone finds something useful. > > Best regards, > > Bert
The TDA18218 is not currently supported under Linux. I have the information needed to write a driver to support it, but I do not have any devices that use it, nor any interest (as of now) to write the driver on my own time. For me, it would not be very difficult to get this done, as I have done work to support a similar family of tuners -- TDA18271 / TDA18211. The TDA18218 tuner is not supported by the current driver. In the past, I would have gone ahead and written a driver for the sheer enjoyment of doing so... but nowadays, I actually have other projects of a higher priority that need my attention instead. If, in the future, any commercial entity has interest in seeing this tuner silicon supported under Linux, they should contact me -- perhaps my desire to write this driver can be increased ;-) Regards, Mike Krufky kernellabs.com -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-media" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
