Gigabyte Hybrid TV Tuner (GT-PTV-TAF-RH)

[sakisds]

Hello everyone, i recently replaced Ubuntu with Mint 9(Gnome - 64bit) and i am really happy, everything worked out of the box, except my new tv tuner. Its a Gigabyte Hybrid TV Tuner (Model: GT-PTV-TAF-RH). I tried some solutions I found but I can't get it to work. It seems that the card is recognized by the system(at /dev/video0) but when i try to run tvtime-scanner I get this:

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$ tvtime-scanner --device=/dev/video0 --input=6
Reading configuration from /etc/tvtime/tvtime.xml
Scanning using TV standard PAL.
videoinput: Card refuses to set its input.
Please post a bug report to http://tvtime.net/
indicating your card, driver, and this error message: Invalid argument.

    No tuner found on input 0.  If you have a tuner, please
    select a different input using --input=<num>.

I tried to use --input=<num> with a lot of numbers(0-20) but no luck.

I checked with lspci and I got this:


00:00.0 Memory controller: nVidia Corporation CK804 Memory Controller (rev a3)
00:01.0 ISA bridge: nVidia Corporation CK804 ISA Bridge (rev a3)
00:01.1 SMBus: nVidia Corporation CK804 SMBus (rev a2)
00:02.0 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation CK804 USB Controller (rev a2)
00:02.1 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation CK804 USB Controller (rev a3)
00:04.0 Multimedia audio controller: nVidia Corporation CK804 AC'97 Audio Controller (rev a2)
00:06.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation CK804 IDE (rev f2)
00:07.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation CK804 Serial ATA Controller (rev f3)
00:08.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation CK804 Serial ATA Controller (rev f3)
00:09.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation CK804 PCI Bridge (rev a2)
00:0a.0 Bridge: nVidia Corporation CK804 Ethernet Controller (rev a3)
00:0b.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation CK804 PCIE Bridge (rev a3)
00:0c.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation CK804 PCIE Bridge (rev a3)
00:0d.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation CK804 PCIE Bridge (rev a3)
00:0e.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation CK804 PCIE Bridge (rev a3)
00:18.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] HyperTransport Technology Configuration
00:18.1 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Address Map
00:18.2 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] DRAM Controller
00:18.3 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Miscellaneous Control
01:06.0 Multimedia controller: Philips Semiconductors SAA7131/SAA7133/SAA7135 Video Broadcast Decoder (rev d1)
01:07.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8185 IEEE 802.11a/b/g Wireless LAN Controller (rev 20)
04:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation G84 [GeForce 8600 GT] (rev a1)
05:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation G84 [GeForce 8600 GT] (rev a1)


Any help would be really appreciated (Also, I don't really care about capturing analog signal, I only want to watch DTV).

Edit: I checked the sticky about tv tuners but it didn't help much :/

[kwisher]

sakisds,

This card looks to use the same tuner chip as my Kworld-115's. Instructions to get it working with Linux are below. I can provide further assistance if you are still having problems.

http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Kworld_ATSC_110

Hope this helps.

[sakisds]

First of all, thanks a lot for the help.

I followed the steps on the tutorial smoothly and without errors but tvtime won't change its mind, it still gives me the same error. Do you have any other ideas?

[kwisher]

What type of signal are you using? Cable, satellite, antennae? Are you connected to the correct input of the card? One is for analog and the other is for digital.

[sakisds]

I am using antenna signal and there is only one input on the card(and one s-video). But I don't think its that, because the card is not recognized at all by tvtime. Is there any other program I should try?


Edit: I tried to set up the card at my windows partition and it worked, so i am pretty sure the connections are fine.
Edit 2: I tried to use my old Aver TV Super 007 and it worked out of box, tvtime recognized it at once. But with this one I can't watch DTV, so I need to fix the gigabyte tuner.

[kwisher]

As per my previous link, you did copy the firmware file (dvb-fe-nxt2004.fw) to /lib/firmware? Does your /etc/modules file look like mine below?

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# /etc/modules: kernel modules to load at boot time.
#
# This file contains the names of kernel modules that should be loaded
# at boot time, one per line. Lines beginning with "#" are ignored.

lp
saa7134
saa7134-dvb
saa7134-alsa

After these modifications you will need to reboot to load the tuner card drivers. When I search for your tuner card the pictures I have seen show two input ports (http://www.gigabyte.eu/Products/TVCard/ ... PTV-TAF-RH).

[sakisds]

My /etc/modules look like this:

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# /etc/modules: kernel modules to load at boot time.
#
# This file contains the names of kernel modules that should be loaded
# at boot time, one per line. Lines beginning with "#" are ignored.

lp
rtc
wacom
saa7134
saa7134-dvb
saa7134-alsa

Wacom is there for my drawing tablet and rtc was there from the start.
Also I can't find the dvb-fe-nxt2004.fw, only a dvb-fe-xc5000-1.6.114.fw. I will check if I did something wrong.

About the input ports, the second is for FM.

Edit: It seems that the card is working now, I will try to set it up and I will let you know how it goes.
Edit 2: No good, there is no /dev/adapter*, only the analog antenna is recognized and I am not getting any signal out of it.

[kwisher]

Please PM me and I can send you the firmware file.

[sakisds]

PM sent, check your inbox.

[mercier]

i had same problem - and although it seems it was solved here, maybe what helped me will help someone else.
here is what i did:

http://translate.google.com/translate?u ... 1&ie=UTF-8

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=8283460

also, i installed wscan and scanned with it:
http://edafe.org/vdr/w_scan/

it created channels.conf file im my /home and from there it was easy to use it with me-tv to get channels and watch tv.

However, by far the easiest thing to do was using VLC. Open file --> channels.conf and thats it. Watch tv in VLC.