The cx88 driver =============== Author: Gerd Hoffmann This is a v4l2 device driver for the cx2388x chip. Current status -------------- video - Works. - Overlay isn't supported. audio - Works. The TV standard detection is made by the driver, as the hardware has bugs to auto-detect. - audio data dma (i.e. recording without loopback cable to the sound card) is supported via cx88-alsa. vbi - Works. How to add support for new cards -------------------------------- The driver needs some config info for the TV cards. This stuff is in cx88-cards.c. If the driver doesn't work well you likely need a new entry for your card in that file. Check the kernel log (using dmesg) to see whenever the driver knows your card or not. There is a line like this one: .. code-block:: none cx8800[0]: subsystem: 0070:3400, board: Hauppauge WinTV \ 34xxx models [card=1,autodetected] If your card is listed as "board: UNKNOWN/GENERIC" it is unknown to the driver. What to do then? 1) Try upgrading to the latest snapshot, maybe it has been added meanwhile. 2) You can try to create a new entry yourself, have a look at cx88-cards.c. If that worked, mail me your changes as unified diff ("diff -u"). 3) Or you can mail me the config information. We need at least the following information to add the card: - the PCI Subsystem ID ("0070:3400" from the line above, "lspci -v" output is fine too). - the tuner type used by the card. You can try to find one by trial-and-error using the tuner= insmod option. If you know which one the card has you can also have a look at the list in CARDLIST.tuner Documentation missing at the cx88 datasheet ------------------------------------------- MO_OUTPUT_FORMAT (0x310164) .. code-block:: none Previous default from DScaler: 0x1c1f0008 Digit 8: 31-28 28: PREVREMOD = 1 Digit 7: 27-24 (0xc = 12 = b1100 ) 27: COMBALT = 1 26: PAL_INV_PHASE (DScaler apparently set this to 1, resulted in sucky picture) Digits 6,5: 23-16 25-16: COMB_RANGE = 0x1f [default] (9 bits -> max 512) Digit 4: 15-12 15: DISIFX = 0 14: INVCBF = 0 13: DISADAPT = 0 12: NARROWADAPT = 0 Digit 3: 11-8 11: FORCE2H 10: FORCEREMD 9: NCHROMAEN 8: NREMODEN Digit 2: 7-4 7-6: YCORE 5-4: CCORE Digit 1: 3-0 3: RANGE = 1 2: HACTEXT 1: HSFMT 0x47 is the sync byte for MPEG-2 transport stream packets. Datasheet incorrectly states to use 47 decimal. 188 is the length. All DVB compliant frontends output packets with this start code. Hauppauge WinTV cx88 IR information ----------------------------------- The controls for the mux are GPIO [0,1] for source, and GPIO 2 for muting. ====== ======== ================================================= GPIO0 GPIO1 ====== ======== ================================================= 0 0 TV Audio 1 0 FM radio 0 1 Line-In 1 1 Mono tuner bypass or CD passthru (tuner specific) ====== ======== ================================================= GPIO 16(I believe) is tied to the IR port (if present). From the data sheet: - Register 24'h20004 PCI Interrupt Status - bit [18] IR_SMP_INT Set when 32 input samples have been collected over - gpio[16] pin into GP_SAMPLE register. What's missing from the data sheet: - Setup 4KHz sampling rate (roughly 2x oversampled; good enough for our RC5 compat remote) - set register 0x35C050 to 0xa80a80 - enable sampling - set register 0x35C054 to 0x5 - enable the IRQ bit 18 in the interrupt mask register (and provide for a handler) GP_SAMPLE register is at 0x35C058 Bits are then right shifted into the GP_SAMPLE register at the specified rate; you get an interrupt when a full DWORD is received. You need to recover the actual RC5 bits out of the (oversampled) IR sensor bits. (Hint: look for the 0/1and 1/0 crossings of the RC5 bi-phase data) An actual raw RC5 code will span 2-3 DWORDS, depending on the actual alignment. I'm pretty sure when no IR signal is present the receiver is always in a marking state(1); but stray light, etc can cause intermittent noise values as well. Remember, this is a free running sample of the IR receiver state over time, so don't assume any sample starts at any particular place. Additional info ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ This data sheet (google search) seems to have a lovely description of the RC5 basics: http://www.atmel.com/dyn/resources/prod_documents/doc2817.pdf This document has more data: http://www.nenya.be/beor/electronics/rc5.htm This document has a how to decode a bi-phase data stream: http://www.ee.washington.edu/circuit_archive/text/ir_decode.txt This document has still more info: http://www.xs4all.nl/~sbp/knowledge/ir/rc5.htm