I heard from someone else that he has a Hauppauge card and Brooktree chip on it. Great :-(.
Well, the driver would need anyhow more clean interface to the PCI<->L64781 bridge. I have been reading the driver source, and it really could use some cleanup. The Rolf Siebrecht patch at http://home.t-online.de/home/rolf.siebrecht/dvb-patch.html seems to contain a lot of useful cleanups that would be worth while integrating. If I only get the reception and tuning working reliably, then I'd be happy to help relocate the extra baggage from the huge dvb.c. > -----Original Message----- > From: ext Ralph Metzler [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Monday, October 15, 2001 11:57 AM > To: Kohtala Marko (NET-OSS/Espoo) > Cc: Aurelian Pop; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [linux-dvb] Re: Using NOVA-t in the UK > > > Marko Kohtala writes: > > ext Ralph Metzler wrote: > > > > > Sorry, if they really use the Bt878 as PCI bridge now > our driver does > > > not support this. Gerd Knorr wrote some extensions to my > old Bt848/878 > > > > > > The Hauppauge NOVA-t uses the SAA7146. > > I still wouldn't put it beyond Hauppauge to suddenly use a different > hardware and call it the same (NOVA-t). > > Aurelian, are you certain your card has a Bt878? What other chips can > you see on the card? > > > > I just got last weekend it tuned to a station in Finland. > I also heard > > Dave Chapman got it tuned in UK with patches I made. > > > > I am not sure what made it work. Maybe it was the change > to make it > > write value 0xa5 to register 0x3e (power-down register) > rather than the > > value 0 that it writes in the version I got from linuxtv.org CVS. > > > > I still have plenty of problems with it. Where I am, there > are three > > channels in use: 32, 44, and 46. I do not get a lock on > channels 44 and > > 46. I suspect the card receives a lot of interference from > the PC. When > > I connect an analog TV to the same antenna, I see a lot of > noise on some > > channels when the NOVA-t is connected to the same antenna. > > Thanks for the information. I'll have another look at the DVB-T stuff > tonight. Right now I am still working on the separation of the > frontend routines into a separate module. > I also still have to figure out on which channels they transmit any > DVB-T here in Cologne. > > > Ralph > > > > > -- Info: To unsubscribe send a mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe linux-dvb" as subject.
