[pvrusb2] LG tuner

[Mike Isely]

On Thu, 8 Dec 2005, Mike Isely wrote:

> On Thu, 8 Dec 2005, Armin Herbert wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>> 
>> my problem: I can't switch channels/tune at all.
>> 
>> My setup: SuSE 9.3 kernel 2.6.11.4-21.9-default, package
>> pvrusb2-mci-20051206 used. I did not extract the firmware from the most
>> recent windows driver package (which would be release 2.5.22303,
>> including driver version 2.2.73.22295, fwextract.pl fails on this), but
>> from pvrusb2_23_21351.exe which has not been shipped along with my
>> device.
>
> A fatal bug was just discovered in fwextract.pl from the current snapshot. 
> The previous snapshot's fwextract.pl is OK but it is missing a new firmware 
> definition - which might be for your driver version.
>
>
>> 
>> My device seems pretty new, the tuner used in the device could be another
>> one than in older versions, see the attached syslog-init.txt - it mainly
>> says "tveeprom: tuner = LG S001D MK3 (idx = 60, type = 4)"
>
> This is the key problem.  "type = 4" means "absent", in other words that it 
> failed to assign *any* tuner implementation.  Until that is fixed nothing is 
> going to work.

By the way, even with the non-working tuner definition, I believe you 
should still be able to operate the composite and s-video inputs.  You 
might want to try that (using a VCR or camcorder) just to verify that 
everything else is working.


>
> Which tveeprom did you use?  The next step here is to figure out why the 
> mapping isn't there.
>
>> 
>> Does it make sense to try to extract the firmware from the device, or do
>> you have any other idea on how to get this working?
>
> I think you're probably OK with the firmware; we need to solve the problem 
> with mapping the tuner definition.
>
>  -Mike
>
>

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