On Sun, 2009-06-07 at 19:39 +0100, Steve Firth wrote: > Hi, I was following with interest the email discussion about getting > the cx18 drivers etc working with the acer aspire idea 510 (I have the > 500 model) > but the chat seemed to fizzle in june 2008. Did anyone ever get this > working?
It fizzled. There's an entry in the cx18 driver for the Yuan MPC718, but it is incomplete. Here's what I think I can do: 1. Fix the analog basedband part (CVBS, S-Video) of the card based on the windows *.inf file. 2. Get analog tuning working based on knowing the card has an XCeive XC3028 anlog/digital tuner. For this I need someone to figure out for certain what GPIO pin is used to reset the XC3028. This will require someone with patience as the brute force search may require up to 32 loads/unloads/recompiles of the driver. 3. I might be able to get DVB-T working, but will need to rely heavily on someone with the hardware and access to DVB-T. Here's how things will go: a. Someone really needs to figure out what DVB-T demodulator is on the MPC718. It's housed in the metal can. :( The Yuan PG718 looks like a PCI version of the MPC718, so maybe if someone can provide a list of the chips on that card, it'll be the same. The Yuan MPC788 is reported to use an XCeive XC3028 with an Intel/Zarlink CE6353/ZL10353 - so I can use that as a first guess. b. I need to know the crystal freq used with the demod. If it's the Zarlink 10353 or equivalent, I'm betting it's a 20.48 MHz crystal. Visual confirmation would be nice. c. I need to know the I2C address of the digital demodulator. If it's the Zarlink 10353 or equivalent, I'm guessing it's at 0x1e as most Zl10353 eval kits used this apparently. If not, there's a way to use the i2c-dev module and the i2c-detect tool (lm-sensors package) to try and figure it out. d. I need to know if the MPC718 uses a Parallel or Serial TS. This will require module loads/unloads/recompiles of the driver. Hopefully this will be an experiment that has to be run only once or twice. So, 1. How bad do you want it to work? 2. Do you have a technical contact at Yuan? ;) Regards, Andy > Cheers > spf _______________________________________________ ivtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://ivtvdriver.org/mailman/listinfo/ivtv-users
