Here is a quick patch that gives me actual video. That being said I
see some curious stuff being logged while video is streaming:
Mar 3 22:04:40 home kernel: [131300.882159] stk1160: streaming started
Mar 3 22:04:49 home kernel: [131309.987118] stk1160: buffer overflow detected
Mar 3 22:04:49 home kernel: [131309.987132] stk1160: buffer overflow detected
Mar 3 22:04:49 home kernel: [131309.987135] stk1160: buffer overflow detected
Mar 3 22:04:49 home kernel: [131309.987138] stk1160: buffer overflow detected
Mar 3 22:04:49 home kernel: [131309.987141] stk1160: buffer overflow detected
Mar 3 22:04:49 home kernel: [131309.987144] stk1160: buffer overflow detected
Mar 3 22:04:49 home kernel: [131309.987147] stk1160: buffer overflow detected
Mar 3 22:04:49 home kernel: [131309.987149] stk1160: buffer overflow detected
Mar 3 22:04:49 home kernel: [131309.987152] stk1160: buffer overflow detected
Mar 3 22:04:49 home kernel: [131309.987155] stk1160: buffer overflow detected
Mar 3 22:04:49 home kernel: [131309.987158] stk1160: buffer overflow detected
Mar 3 22:04:51 home kernel: [131312.547028] stk1160: buffer overflow detected
Mar 3 22:04:52 home kernel: [131312.955081] stk1160: buffer overflow detected
Mar 3 22:04:52 home kernel: [131313.362920] stk1160: buffer overflow detected
Mar 3 22:04:52 home kernel: [131313.507093] stk1160: buffer overflow detected
Mar 3 22:04:55 home kernel: [131315.778953] stk1160: buffer overflow detected
Mar 3 22:04:55 home kernel: [131315.778962] stk1160_copy_video: 323
callbacks suppressed
Mar 3 22:04:55 home kernel: [131315.778964] stk1160: buffer overflow detected
Mar 3 22:04:55 home kernel: [131315.778965] stk1160: buffer overflow detected
Mar 3 22:04:55 home kernel: [131315.778967] stk1160: buffer overflow detected
...
I haven't taken time to look into them at all yet.
Kevin Fitch
On Thu, Mar 3, 2016 at 8:01 PM, Ezequiel Garcia
<ezequ...@vanguardiasur.com.ar> wrote:
> On 3 March 2016 at 21:50, Kevin Fitch <kfitc...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Thank you for the quick response. Hmm, I am not seeing anything about
>> the saa7113 or similar chip. I just replugged it, and here is what
>> showed up in the log:
>>
>> Mar 3 19:32:45 home kernel: [122185.832751] usb 2-3: New USB device
>> found, idVendor=05e1, idProduct=0408
>> Mar 3 19:32:45 home kernel: [122185.832762] usb 2-3: New USB device
>> strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=0
>> Mar 3 19:32:45 home kernel: [122185.832769] usb 2-3: Product: USB 2.0
>> Video Capture Controller
>> Mar 3 19:32:45 home kernel: [122185.832774] usb 2-3: Manufacturer:
>> Syntek Semiconductor
>> Mar 3 19:32:45 home mtp-probe: checking bus 2, device 4:
>> "/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:04.1/usb2/2-3"
>> Mar 3 19:32:45 home mtp-probe: bus: 2, device: 4 was not an MTP device
>> Mar 3 19:32:45 home kernel: [122185.885397] usb 2-3: New device
>> Syntek Semiconductor USB 2.0 Video Capture Controller @ 480 Mbps
>> (05e1:0408, interface 0, class 0)
>> Mar 3 19:32:45 home kernel: [122185.885408] usb 2-3: video interface 0 found
>> Mar 3 19:32:45 home kernel: [122186.456571] stk1160: driver ver 0.9.5
>> successfully loaded
>> Mar 3 19:32:46 home kernel: [122186.589683] stk1160: registers to
>> NTSC like standard
>> Mar 3 19:32:46 home kernel: [122186.590676] stk1160 2-3:1.0: V4L2
>> device registered as video0
>> Mar 3 19:32:46 home kernel: [122186.591299] usbcore: registered new
>> interface driver stk1160
>> Mar 3 19:32:46 home pulseaudio[2312]: [pulseaudio]
>> module-alsa-card.c: Failed to find a working profile.
>> Mar 3 19:32:46 home pulseaudio[2312]: [pulseaudio] module.c: Failed
>> to load module "module-alsa-card" (argument: "device_id="3"
>> name="usb-Syntek_Semiconductor_USB_2.0_Video_Capture_Controller-00-stk1160mixer"
>> card_name="alsa_card.usb-Syntek_Semiconductor_USB_2.0_Video_Capture_Controller-00-stk1160mixer"
>> namereg_fail=false tsched=yes fixed_latency_range=no ignore_dB=no
>> deferred_volume=yes use_ucm=yes
>> card_properties="module-udev-detect.discovered=1""): initialization
>> failed.
>> Mar 3 19:32:47 home pulseaudio[2312]: [pulseaudio] source.c: Default
>> and alternate sample rates are the same.
>> Mar 3 19:32:47 home rtkit-daemon[2314]: Successfully made thread
>> 15492 of process 2312 (n/a) owned by '1000' RT at priority 5.
>> Mar 3 19:32:47 home rtkit-daemon[2314]: Supervising 4 threads of 1
>> processes of 1 users.
>>
>>
>> So, I popped the case on the dongle and I did see a chip (right next
>> to the video cables) labelled CJC7113. I would assume(/hope) this is a
>> SAA7113 compatible chip. I actually don't care about audio in my
>> particular application, but there is a Realtek ALC6555 on the bottom
>> as well.
>>
>
> Thanks for the information. Philippe Desrochers has reported this,
> and found the chip is compatible with SAA7113 [1].
>
> Quoting him:
>
>> I tested with saa7115.c and the problem is in the "saa711x_detect_chip"
>> function.
>> In fact, the CJC7113 chip seems to returns all '1' when reading register 0.
>> ("1111111111111111" found @ 0x4a (stk1160)))
>
> Guess a bunch of STK1160 devices are now being sold
> with the CJC7113 and probably many users are getting hit by this :(
>
> I can try to cook a patch or feel free to do it yourself and post it.
>
> As a quick solution, you can hack saa711x_detect_chip() so it
> always returns SAA7113.
>
> We could also add a module parameter to stk1160, to allow
> to force the decoder string, but I'd rather have saa7115
> autodetection working for all chips.
>
> [1] http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-media/msg95887.html
> --
> Ezequiel García, VanguardiaSur
> www.vanguardiasur.com.ar
--- drivers/media/i2c/saa7115.c 2015-08-30 14:34:09.000000000 -0400
+++ drivers/media/i2c/saa7115.c 2016-03-03 22:07:20.489541000 -0500
@@ -1794,6 +1794,17 @@
return GM7113C;
}
+ /* Check if it is a CJC7113 */
+ if (!memcmp(name, "1111111111111111", 16)) {
+ strlcpy(name, "cjc7113", CHIP_VER_SIZE);
+
+ if (!autodetect && strcmp(name, id->name))
+ return -EINVAL;
+
+ /* The CJC7113 is SAA7113 compatible. */
+ return SAA7113;
+ }
+
/* Chip was not discovered. Return its ID and don't bind */
v4l_dbg(1, debug, client, "chip %*ph @ 0x%x is unknown.\n",
16, chip_ver, client->addr << 1);
