I found that while these lines are generated by me-tv and possibly dvbscan, scan actually works.
And the results of scan are accepted as channels.conf by me-tv , after an iconv conversion to utf-8 (whatever). And me-tv WORKS! So, the end result: these messages somehow mean "use scan". Google did not help - so I hope it will help the next person hitting this problem as they will find this in the archives :) Yours, Mikhail Ramendik 2009/10/1 Mikhail Ramendik <m...@ramendik.ru>: > Hello, > > I have: > > - Debian Lenny (dual booted with Windows XP) > - Linux kernel 2.6.30 (from backports.org) > - An AverMedia DVB-S Pro A700 card (not hybrid) > - a satellite dish set to Astra 28.2E (in Ireland) > > With Windows XP I can view TV all right. > > With Linux, I tried tuning with me-tv and scan, in both cases using > files for Astra 28.2E. Both cause a similar failure - can not set > frequency. The most coherent messages are in dmesg: > > [ 96.950097] DVB: adapter 0 frontend 0 frequency 11709400 out of > range (950000..2150000) > > (and lots of this - for every attempt to set the frequency). > > Here are the lines from dmesg during boot up time, relevant for the card: > > [ 10.363711] Linux video capture interface: v2.00 > [ 10.413266] saa7130/34: v4l2 driver version 0.2.15 loaded > [ 10.413333] saa7134 0000:00:0a.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 19 (level, low) -> IRQ > 19 > [ 10.413344] saa7133[0]: found at 0000:00:0a.0, rev: 209, irq: 19, > latency: 32, mmio: 0xeb024000 > [ 10.413356] saa7133[0]: subsystem: 1461:a7a1, board: Avermedia > DVB-S Pro A700 [card=140,autodetected] > [ 10.413388] saa7133[0]: board init: gpio is 202f600 > [ 10.413402] IRQ 19/saa7133[0]: IRQF_DISABLED is not guaranteed on shared > IRQs > [ 10.564525] saa7133[0]: i2c eeprom 00: 61 14 a1 a7 ff ff ff ff ff > ff ff ff ff ff ff ff > [ 10.564547] saa7133[0]: i2c eeprom 10: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff > ff ff ff ff ff ff ff > [ 10.564568] saa7133[0]: i2c eeprom 20: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff > ff ff ff ff ff ff ff > [ 10.564588] saa7133[0]: i2c eeprom 30: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff > ff ff ff ff ff ff ff > [ 10.564608] saa7133[0]: i2c eeprom 40: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff > ff ff ff ff ff ff ff > [ 10.564627] saa7133[0]: i2c eeprom 50: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff > ff ff ff ff ff ff ff > [ 10.564646] saa7133[0]: i2c eeprom 60: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff > ff ff ff ff ff ff ff > [ 10.564665] saa7133[0]: i2c eeprom 70: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff > ff ff ff ff ff ff ff > [ 10.564684] saa7133[0]: i2c eeprom 80: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff > ff ff ff ff ff ff ff > [ 10.564703] saa7133[0]: i2c eeprom 90: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff > ff ff ff ff ff ff ff > [ 10.564722] saa7133[0]: i2c eeprom a0: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff > ff ff ff ff ff ff ff > [ 10.564741] saa7133[0]: i2c eeprom b0: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff > ff ff ff ff ff ff ff > [ 10.564760] saa7133[0]: i2c eeprom c0: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff > ff ff ff ff ff ff ff > [ 10.564780] saa7133[0]: i2c eeprom d0: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff > ff ff ff ff ff ff ff > [ 10.564799] saa7133[0]: i2c eeprom e0: 00 01 81 b0 3e 3f ff ff ff > ff ff ff ff ff ff ff > [ 10.564818] saa7133[0]: i2c eeprom f0: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff > ff ff ff ff ff ff ff > [ 10.580356] saa7133[0]: registered device video0 [v4l2] > [ 10.580400] saa7133[0]: registered device vbi0 > [ 10.791137] dvb_init() allocating 1 frontend > [ 10.938187] Intel ICH 0000:00:02.7: PCI INT C -> GSI 18 (level, > low) -> IRQ 18 > [ 11.012527] zl10036_attach: tuner initialization (Zarlink ZL10036 > addr=0x60) ok > [ 11.012534] DVB: registering new adapter (saa7133[0]) > [ 11.012540] DVB: registering adapter 0 frontend 0 (Zarlink ZL10313 > DVB-S)... > [ 11.213808] saa7134 ALSA driver for DMA sound loaded > [ 11.213825] IRQ 19/saa7133[0]: IRQF_DISABLED is not guaranteed on shared > IRQs > [ 11.213859] saa7133[0]/alsa: saa7133[0] at 0xeb024000 irq 19 > registered as card -1 > > What do I need to do in orer to get the card to work under Linux? > > (I can apply patches/build kernel or libraries if needed). > > -- > Yours, Mikhail Ramendik > -- Yours, Mikhail Ramendik -- 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