On Thu, 6 Jan 2005 15:14:49 +0100
Thomas Olsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Daniel Frauchiger
> <URL:mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > desperate at the moment. All I get when tuning is snow. There are other 
> > people around telling similar trouble with their same tuner even though 
> > with static output (which is not the case with me, I get 'live' snow).
> 
> Just FYI, what you call 'snow' (i.e. a very noisy signal) is called
> 'static' in the US. So references to that means the same thing.
> 
> I have the same trouble with the same tuner. I've taken it back to the shop
> now, and they've ordered a new one. I'm still not sure if there was
> anything wrong with it, but we will see when I get the replacement.
> 
> > Any help would be appreciated.
> 

Hi there!

I have the same problem here in Finland, tuner is: Philips FM1216 ME MK3 (idx = 
57, type = 38).

As someone posted earlier, there seems to be some kind of problem with the 
tuner initialization. I tested the card with several kernels and driver 
versions, even installed KnoppMyth but nothing seemed to help. Finally I tried 
installing Windows and then warm booting to Linux. That way the card works just 
fine. 
When the card doesn't work, ivtvctl-I reports status registers 1E = 0x40 and 1F 
= 0xc0. And VIDEO_STATUS says BAD or something.

Now that it's working, running ivtvctl -I I get the following:

check SAA7115 input signal
ioctl: VIDEO_STATUS = Sat/Dvd

SAA7115 reg[STATUS#1 - 0x1E] = 82
 Color Standard (D0-D1): PAL
 White peak loop (D2): Not activated
 Gain value for act.lum. (min) (D3): Not limited
 Gain value for act.lum. (max) (D4): Not limited
 WIPA-mode slow-time constant (D5): Not activated
 Horizontal frequency (D6): Locked
 Field length (D7): Standard

SAA7115 reg[STATUS#2 - 0x1F] = 91
 Ready for capture (D0): Yes
 Macrovision 7.01 (D1): No
 MV Colorstripe burst (D2): No
 MV Colorstripe burst type 3 (D3): No
 Input signal timebase (D4): Stable (broadcast/DVD)
 Field frequency (D5): 50Hz
 H & V loops (D6): Locked
 Interlace (D7): Detected


Can any of you developers out there comment on this one? I can do a cold boot 
to Linux and get more debugging output if 
needed.. 
It is such a waste of space to keep the Windows there just to be able to 
initialize the card :)

-Tuukka


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