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Avermedia 777 DVB card is not supported in Dapper kernel

Bug #33350 reported by Chris Halse Rogers
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linux-source-2.6.15 (Ubuntu)
Won't Fix
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Bug Description

The Avermedia 777 DVB card does not have DVB support in the Dapper kernel. The linuxtv.org mercurial repository has updates to the saa7134 drivers which enable support for this card. I don't think these drivers have been folded into the vanilla kernel yet.

The relevant modues loaded by this driver are:
/lib/modules/2.6.15-16-amd64-k8/kernel/drivers/media/video/v4l2-common.ko
/lib/modules/2.6.15-16-amd64-k8/kernel/drivers/media/dvb/frontends/tda1004x.ko
/lib/modules/2.6.15-16-amd64-k8/kernel/drivers/media/dvb/frontends/dvb-pll.ko
/lib/modules/2.6.15-16-amd64-k8/kernel/drivers/media/dvb/frontends/nxt200x.ko
/lib/modules/2.6.15-16-amd64-k8/kernel/drivers/media/video/video-buf.ko
/lib/modules/2.6.15-16-amd64-k8/kernel/drivers/media/dvb/dvb-core/dvb-core.ko
/lib/modules/2.6.15-16-amd64-k8/kernel/drivers/media/video/video-buf-dvb.ko
/lib/modules/2.6.15-16-amd64-k8/kernel/drivers/media/video/videodev.ko
/lib/modules/2.6.15-16-amd64-k8/kernel/drivers/media/common/ir-common.ko
/lib/modules/2.6.15-16-amd64-k8/kernel/drivers/media/video/ir-kbd-i2c.ko
/lib/modules/2.6.15-16-amd64-k8/kernel/drivers/media/video/v4l1-compat.ko
/lib/modules/2.6.15-16-amd64-k8/kernel/drivers/media/video/compat_ioctl32.ko
/lib/modules/2.6.15-16-amd64-k8/kernel/drivers/media/video/saa7134/saa7134.ko
/lib/modules/2.6.15-16-amd64-k8/kernel/drivers/media/dvb/frontends/mt352.ko
/lib/modules/2.6.15-16-amd64-k8/kernel/drivers/media/video/saa7134/saa7134-dvb.ko

Note: the original reporter indicated the bug was in package 'linux-image'; however, that package was not published in Ubuntu.

Revision history for this message
Vassilis Pandis (pandisv) wrote :

Is this still a problem with final dapper or Edgy? Thanks for reporting this.

Revision history for this message
Chris Halse Rogers (raof) wrote :

It's still a problem with final Dapper, but the driver has been merged into the 2.6.17 vanilla kernel, and so the card is supported in Edgy.

Revision history for this message
Chuck Short (zulcss) wrote :

I have backported this patch. Will be in dapper soon.

chuck

Stéphane Loeuillet (leroutier)
Changed in linux-source-2.6.15:
status: New → In Progress
Revision history for this message
Leann Ogasawara (leannogasawara) wrote :

Wow, this is a pretty old bug. I've looked at the dapper kernel git tree and do not see this card being supported. It's unlikely this will be applied to Dapper as an SRU at this point. I can however confirm as Chris mentioned that this is supported in Edgy through the most recent Intrepid kernel. Thanks.

commit 450efcfd2e1d941e302a8c89322fbfcef237be98
Author: <email address hidden> <email address hidden>
Date: Sun Nov 12 14:22:32 2006 -0300

    V4L/DVB (4814): Remote support for Avermedia 777

    I didn't test it personally since I don't have this card, but A16AR uses the
    same interface and that one certainly does work perfectly (see the next patch).
    This patch was originally sent in
        http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-video&m=114743413825375&w=2
        https://www.redhat.com/mailman/private/video4linux-list/2006-May/msg00103.html
    but never got applied. This version has some trivial modifications and drops
    the weird gpio hack (it's not clear what practical purpose does it serve).

    Signed-off-by: Jose Alberto Reguero <email address hidden>
    Signed-off-by: Petr Baudis <email address hidden>
    Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <email address hidden>

Changed in linux-source-2.6.15:
status: In Progress → Won't Fix
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