Anybody with one of these radio tuners will be interested to know that they do work without any further input from Hans. They require that the correct (video) tuner configuration (38) is set in modprobe.conf and then a decent aerial (at least where I am).
On Wednesday 04 October 2006 21:13, Hans Verkuil wrote: > On Wednesday 04 October 2006 17:45, Loris Caren wrote: > > On Wednesday 04 October 2006 14:55, Hans Verkuil wrote: > > > > On Tuesday 03 October 2006 23:09, Hans Verkuil wrote: > > > >> Hi all, > > > >> > > > >> Does anyone have a PVR card that uses the Philips FM1216ME > > > >> MK5 or FM1236 MK5 tuner? They appear in newer cards (PVR350 > > > >> mainly I believe) and I'm adding support for it into the > > > >> kernel. As far as I can tell I can reuse the existing MK3 > > > >> tuner definitions. With one possible exception: FM radio > > > >> support. > > > >> > > > >> I'd like to have someone test radio support with these > > > >> tuners to confirm whether I really can reuse the older MK3 > > > >> tuner definition or not. > > > > > > > > tveeprom 1-0050: tuner model is Philips FM1216ME MK5 (idx > > > > 117, type 4) > > > > > > > > I reckon I've got one here in the UK in a recent purchase > > > > PVR350. I'm willing to help, but I should warn you, I've > > > > still not found my way to a working system yet - I've got as > > > > far as getting a fuzzy picture from the tuner after adding > > > > ivtv options tuner=1. Currently when I try for sound from > > > > mplayer I get dropped frames. I'm using an FC5 platform > > > > (2.6.17 kernel) > > > > > > Use option tuner=38. That selects the MK3 tuner definition, > > > which is almost 100% identical to the MK5. The only question > > > that I have is whether the FM radio works. It might be > > > necessary to change the kernel to support that part. > > > > ivtv-radio -vs ran through a series of frequencies up to 107.00 > > with output like 92.00 147000 8192. I don't really know what it > > should do. Twice, doing this has locked up the system dead with > > the only thing that worked thereafter a reset (button). This > > rather unpleasant effect is intermittent. What logs would you > > like? > > > > ivtv-radio -f 92.7 (known UK frequency) produces a buzzing sound. > > Same sound is produced when tuning off frequency. > > Hmm, that's looks very much like the radio isn't working. To prove > this I hope you are able to build a new kernel. A single simple > change is needed in the source drivers/media/video/tuner-simple.c. > Look for the function default_set_radio_freq, then look for this > piece of code: > > case TUNER_PHILIPS_FM1216ME_MK3: > case TUNER_PHILIPS_FM1236_MK3: > case TUNER_PHILIPS_FMD1216ME_MK3: > buffer[3] = 0x19; > break; > > Now replace '0x19' with '0x09'. That's it. > > If running ivtv-radio -f 92.7 now is tuned properly, then this will > mean that I need to do more work to have the MK5 tuner work > correctly. Thanks Hans, with the correct tuner specified I find that a kernel patch is not required, sorry to have caused confusion.
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