How-to: DVB-T USB TV tuner with Genie 619W (Afatech Chip)

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#16 Post by peebee »

Hi John

I've loaded the Gtb-DVB .pet and its dependancies as you suggested but regret to say have not had great success.

When started, Gtb-DVB took over my whole screen, gxine seemed to give errors but in blank screens and Gxine only displayed a very small picture in a window that seemed broken up and corrupted.

I had to kill all the windows and reboot to get back to normal.

It was such a complex interaction that it is difficult to exactly describe what happened.

Xine seems to work much more relaibly although its gui is a bit clunky - but it does show DVB-T programmes in full screen .....

Not a success I'm afraid.

Cheers
Peter

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#17 Post by caramelo »

Hi all

Someone can explain me how to compile the drivers please?

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#18 Post by peebee »

Which version of Puppy are you running?? You should always include this info in your posts

Certainly from 4.3.1 non-retro the drivers are built-in so no compiling is needed???

Cheers
Peter

Got dvb-t working fairly painlessly on Puppy 4.3.1 K2.6.30.5 running on HP 550 laptop.

Plugged in the 'Afatech DVB-T USB1.1 stick' which was detected and firmware from file 'af9005.fw' was loaded. (Cheap usb dvb-t stick bought off ebay)
(Vendor id 15a4 device id 9020 15a4:9020)

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Afatech DVB-T 2

#19 Post by Whitesnow »

Hi, I have a problem on 4.3.1. My usbkey (eBay's one) doesn't work. I compiled missing modules from source at Linuxtv (update for this chip), but it isn't enough. Firmware is from packages in this thread.

Could you please help?

Where I can find dvb-utils/apps? I don't locate them with forum search tool.

Thanks in advance.

Bye.


Sep 15 15:49:58 (none) user.info kernel: usb 2-1: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 9
Sep 15 15:49:58 (none) user.info kernel: usb 2-1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
Sep 15 15:49:58 (none) user.warn kernel: af9015: tuner id:179 not supported, please report!
Sep 15 15:49:58 (none) user.info kernel: Afatech DVB-T 2: Fixing fullspeed to highspeed interval: 10 -> 7
Sep 15 15:49:58 (none) user.info kernel: input: Afatech DVB-T 2 as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.7/usb2/2-1/2-1:1.1/input/input13
Sep 15 15:49:58 (none) user.info kernel: generic-usb 0003:15A4:9016.0008: input: USB HID v1.01 Keyboard [Afatech DVB-T 2] on usb-0000:00:1d.7-1/input1


# lsmod | grep dvb
dvb_pll 8776 0
dvb_usb_af9015 22892 0
dvb_usb 15960 1 dvb_usb_af9015
dvb_core 83840 1 dvb_usb
i2c_core 23776 7 tda18271,dvb_pll,dvb_usb_af9015,dvb_usb,mt2060,af9013,i2c_i801
usbcore 138160 7 dvb_usb_af9015,dvb_usb,usbhid,hsfosspec,uhci_hcd,ehci_hcd
#
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DVB help

#20 Post by peebee »

paulski wrote:Here are some helpful links
DVD tv applications (like scan and the script for making the device nodes)
http://dotpups.de/dotpups/Multimedia/Mp ... -1.1.1.pet

Initial scan files for the scan utility
http://linuxtv.org/hg/dvb-apps/file/afd ... can/dvb-t/
Have you tried a Puppy with a later kernel than 4.3.1 - e.g. Lupu or Wary?? They may support the 9015.....

The utilities were given by paulski earlier in this very thread....as a ready made pet

Does this help?
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peebee

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I want Lupu, but I can't...

#21 Post by Whitesnow »

Hi,
I can't upgrade to Lupu because a wireless building error stops me (http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=59291). :(
I've just post the problem again in "Regulars" (http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=59949).

Thank you for help and links! :)

Bye.
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In spite of Lupu upgrade, Alfatech doesn't work anymore

#22 Post by Whitesnow »

I upgraded to Lupu. Still the same error. :(

Please help, if you can.

Thanks and bye.
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#23 Post by gronos04 »

@whitesnow
I have TV running in Lupu.
What do you get with
#dmesg | grep dvb

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#24 Post by Whitesnow »

UPDATE: is tail not dmesg. No other useful info by dmesg.

Already done above (used > for output, so no command visible). Copy & paste:

Sep 15 15:49:58 (none) user.info kernel: usb 2-1: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 9
Sep 15 15:49:58 (none) user.info kernel: usb 2-1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
Sep 15 15:49:58 (none) user.warn kernel: af9015: tuner id:179 not supported, please report!
Sep 15 15:49:58 (none) user.info kernel: Afatech DVB-T 2: Fixing fullspeed to highspeed interval: 10 -> 7
Sep 15 15:49:58 (none) user.info kernel: input: Afatech DVB-T 2 as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.7/usb2/2-1/2-1:1.1/input/input13
Sep 15 15:49:58 (none) user.info kernel: generic-usb 0003:15A4:9016.0008: input: USB HID v1.01 Keyboard [Afatech DVB-T 2] on usb-0000:00:1d.7-1/input1

Thanks in advance if you can help.

Bye.
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#25 Post by gronos04 »

@whitesnow
#dmesg | grep dvb will give some different useful information. Please post that.
I am unclear whether your device is loading the firmware.
You may not have a problem at all but just don't know the next step.

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success with the af9015

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#27 Post by paulski »

Success for me too. Basically the same procedure.
See my edited first post on this thread.

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