http://www.avermedia.com/docs/pdffiles/linux.txt

Found this document at avermedia.com

Hope this can help out some people. It explains how to load one of these cards in 2.4 or 2.6

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If you have the latest version of KnoppMyth, you don't need to do any of those steps. Linux kernel 2.6.10 or greater supports the Aver 771 directly. No kernel recopiling or reconfiguring needed. Just add dvb-bt8xx into /etc/modules

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Has anyone had any experience setting up the latest card from Avermedia? (777) There is still no information on the Avermedia website about them, does anyone know if the chipset is the same as the 771?

If anyone has setup a 777 with the latest version of KnoppMyth, can they pls post a how to for it. Thanks in advance

'podge' posted this on atomicmpc.com.au a few weeks ago --
Avermedia 777 = SAA7134 Chipset
Avermedia 771 = BT8xx Chipset (as per the Atomic article)

apparently the saa713X module requires a tuner setting before it will work properly.

hope this helps - i haven't installed one yet but i'm right about to buy one for a hundred bucks aussie.

Thanks sime...
I'm just about to give it a go, thought I would ask if you've got one yet and if you have any tips for me

Someone posted this to add support for the Avermedia 777 card. Can anyone help with putting this onto a mythbox?

diff -upr video4linux.orig/saa7134-cards.c video4linux/saa7134-cards.c
--- video4linux.orig/saa7134-cards.c 2005-07-03 08:32:23.000000000 +0000
+++ video4linux/saa7134-cards.c 2005-07-03 08:36:24.000000000 +0000
@@ -2322,6 +2322,13 @@ struct pci_device_id saa7134_pci_tbl[] =

},{
.vendor = PCI_VENDOR_ID_PHILIPS,
+ .device = PCI_DEVICE_ID_PHILIPS_SAA7133,
+ .subvendor = 0x1461, /* Avermedia Technologies Inc */
+ .subdevice = 0x2c05, /* Avermedia DVB-T 777 */
+ .driver_data = SAA7134_BOARD_PHILIPS_TOUGH,
+
+ },{
+ .vendor = PCI_VENDOR_ID_PHILIPS,
.device = PCI_DEVICE_ID_PHILIPS_SAA7130,
.subvendor = PCI_VENDOR_ID_PHILIPS,
.subdevice = 0x2004,

I'd love to know how to set the 777 up also.. I was able to get the S-Video & Composite working without too much hassle, but that's not much use for watching tv!!

Seems that we have to tweak some code, but I'm not really sure about how DVB fits in with the standard SAA7134 stuff..

(so it's windows for me until I can sort this out...)

I REALLY dont want to turn to windows either, but it might be the only option with the Avermedia 777.... i'm gonna keep tinkering in linux, but im not too optimistic.

Most DVB cards use the same chipsets as analogue cards, which is why you can get the Svideo and Composite working. The difference is that the frontend (the tin can thing which contains a tuner), and the data that is copied across by that chipset, is different.

Also, KnoppMyth loads the analogue stuff by default, but you have to at least get it to load an extra module (dvb-saa7134?) to try and talk to the DVB stuff on the card. In the case of this card, you need to also patch the source so that the V4L (analogue) and DVB (digital) drivers can co-operate.

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Looks like you need to apply the patch to the file
drivers/media/video/saa7134/saa7134-cards.c
in your kernel tree (I would start with a vanilla 2.6.13 kernel).

Then, you would need to copy cesmans kernel config file from /boot to .config in your kernel source directory and do a

make menuconfig

Go into device drivers, multimedia, video for linux and enable dvb support for saa7134 cards (This is not enabled in cesmans R5A16 configuration).

Rebuild and install your kernel, and you may well be good to go.

I've spent a few days tinkering with this, here's where I'm at:
(this might be a bit long-winded, but hopefully someone can follow it!!)

I made the following changes to saa7134-cards.c:
[SAA7134_BOARD_PHILIPS_TOUGH] = {
.name = "Philips TOUGH DVB-T reference design",
<changed this bit below>
.inputs = {{
.name = name_comp1,
.vmux = 1, <-- Changed this from 0 (else composite wasn't working)
.amux = LINE1,

and also applied the patch from the post above, but changed SAA7133 to SAA7134 - it wasn't auto-detecting otherwise..
},{
.vendor = PCI_VENDOR_ID_PHILIPS,
.device = PCI_DEVICE_ID_PHILIPS_SAA7134, <-- changed this
.subvendor = 0x1461, /* Avermedia Technologies Inc */
.subdevice = 0x2c05, /* Avermedia DVB-T 777 */
.driver_data = SAA7134_BOARD_PHILIPS_TOUGH;

After a compile, this is what I diid:
modprobe saa7134
modprobe saa7134-dvb

(dmesg output follows)
saa7134[0]: found at 0000:02:04.0, rev: 1, irq: 169, latency: 32, mmio: 0xf3010000
saa7134[0]: subsystem: 1461:2c05, board: Philips TOUGH DVB-T reference design [card=61,autodetected]
saa7134[0]: board init: gpio is 22400
saa7134[0]: i2c eeprom 00: 61 14 05 2c 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
saa7134[0]: i2c eeprom 10: 00 ff 82 0e ff 20 ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
saa7134[0]: i2c eeprom 20: 01 40 01 02 02 03 03 01 08 ff 00 a8 ff ff ff ff
saa7134[0]: i2c eeprom 30: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
saa7134[0]: registered device video0 [v4l2]
saa7134[0]: registered device vbi0
saa7134[0]: frontend initialization failed <----- help!!

So basically, I'm not getting anywhere, the 'frontend' won't initialise.. I'm using the latest 2.6.13.1 kernel (after finding that there were more bugs in 2.6.13 to do with the menuconfig setup)
the 'frontend' I need to be loading is TDA1004X (or tda10046 specifically), but I can't figure that part out yet... (something to do with firmware? - I followed the instructions that I found on that, it doesn't seem to by trying to load anything)

any help???

Hey guys,
just wondering if anyone has had any more progress with the 777?

I'm basically in the same boat as everyone else... hopefully a solution will come through in 2.6.13

I've been emailing some of the guys over at the 'video4linux' mailing list, they've given me an idea of what might work.. (seems this card is a mix of a couple others)
It doesn't look like anyone has this card running under linux yet, so the code will have to be written.. I'll have a go at it (If I don't find a solution in the meantime) and let you know if I have any success.

Any hints that you have would be good if you could post them here.
Im about to start again (fresh fc4, new kernel, cvs v4l, dvb etc),
so any hints along the waywould be appreciated.

Anyone struggling with this want to test the next release? If so, send me an pm. The next release (while not finished) does have 2.6.13, so hopefully that will get you going. If not, perhaps a solution can be found so you can get it working.

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