No driver is currently present (that I am aware of) that supports realtek 2832u driver. This adds ap potential cadidate to get such cards working on a "works for mi basis"! Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Buy the wrong dbb card 2. Plug it in 3. Try to watch tv...... Actual Results: The card is not recognized Expected Results: A functioning driver and possiby some tv channel!!! Unforutunately, The only driver I was able to find was http://media.ubuntuusers.de/forum/attachments/2103272/090730_RTL2832U_LINUX_Ver1.1.rar who's provinence I can not vouche for. Yet, I tried to include it in the upcomming .38 kernel release. Attached is my first take at this. At the moment my system is working almost fine with this card. I lost the suspend to ram state but I have not yet confirmed if it is a regression in the new kernel. Anyone with a 64 bit system would like to try this? Anyone knows of a new version of the driver, or even who the original maintainer is?
Created attachment 263231 [details] patch that adds the rtl2832u driver I now realize that this should have gone into the staging area... Sorry, for cluttering the main kernel tree!
for which kernel is this? did try on 2.6.37 but getting error: CC [M] drivers/media/dvb/dvb-core/dvb_ringbuffer.o CC [M] net/ipv6/addrlabel.o CC [M] drivers/media/dvb/dvb-core/dvb_math.o LD [M] drivers/media/dvb/dvb-core/dvb-core.o make[4]: *** No rule to make target `drivers/media/dvb/dvb-usb/demod_rtl2832.o', needed by `drivers/media/dvb/dvb-usb/dvb-usb.o'. Stop. make[3]: *** [drivers/media/dvb/dvb-usb] Error 2 make[2]: *** [drivers/media/dvb] Error 2 make[1]: *** [drivers/media] Error 2 make: *** [drivers] Error 2
I run a git kernel... 2.6.38-rc3 at the moment, this patch worked against 44f2c5c841da1b1e0864d768197ab1497b5c2cc1 Nice one getting that problem, don't expect it soon as I usually only have the time to work on this during the weekend, but I'll look into it Did the patch apply cleanly? Look especially at the Makefile... does it contain the lines "dvb-usb-rtl2832u-objs = demod_rtl2832.o dvbt_demod_base.o dvbt_nim_base.o foundation.o math_mpi.o nim_rtl2832_mxl5007t.o nim_rtl2832_fc2580.o nim_rtl2832_mt2266.o rtl2832u.o rtl2832u_fe.o rtl2832u_io.o tuner_mxl5007t.o tuner_fc2580.o tuner_mt2266.o tuner_tua9001.o nim_rtl2832_tua9001.o obj-$(CONFIG_DVB_USB_RTL2832U) += dvb-usb-rtl2832u.o"
(In reply to comment #3) > Nice one getting that problem, don't expect it soon as I usually only have the > time to work on this during the weekend, but I'll look into it sorry my fault i dont know how to use patch and did generate the files in /usr/src/linux it did compile nice now but my card still is not detected i think i have to tweak some file with the usb ids. did allready do it with dvb-usb-rtl2832u.mod.c but, still no device created. modprobe dvb-usb-rtl2832u is ok
now i found the right file for the usbids = rtl2832u.h dont know the difference between USB_PID_RTD2832U_WARM and USB_PID_RTD2832U_2ND_WARM but did try with both to change the id so that my device is recognized: usb 1-3: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 3 dvb-usb: found a 'RTL2832U DVB-T USB DEVICE' in warm state. dvb-usb: will pass the complete MPEG2 transport stream to the software demuxer. DVB: registering new adapter (RTL2832U DVB-T USB DEVICE) DVB: registering adapter 0 frontend 0 (Realtek RTL2832 DVB-T)... but when trying to tune i get no results: localhost# dvbscan -c using '/dev/dvb/adapter0/frontend0' and '/dev/dvb/adapter0/demux0' WARNING: filter timeout pid 0x0011 WARNING: filter timeout pid 0x0000 dumping lists (0 services) Done. or: kaffeine(8675) DvbLinuxDevice::getSignal: ioctl FE_READ_SIGNAL_STRENGTH failed for "/dev/dvb/adapter0/frontend0" kaffeine(8675) DvbLinuxDevice::getSnr: ioctl FE_READ_SNR failed for "/dev/dvb/adapter0/frontend0" kaffeine(8675) DvbDevice::frontendEvent: tuning failed
Is there no way of finding out the frequency for your country? Scanning did not work for me either (using vlc), but starting vlc with the specific comand line gets me all the tv channels for Portugal. As an example, here, i use: vlc dvb://frequency=842000000 --deinterlace 1 If you get it working, please post the device ID of your tuner here for future reference
Is that a kernel patch? What kernel version?
This is against a git checkout, as I stated in comment #3. the checkout was a bit after 2.6.38-rc3 was released. Sorry it is marked as binary, but the patch was over 500k as it includes all the driver. The code itself came from the link in the original report, plus a few modifications to remove the warnings. The files state a GPLv2 license, but I do not know who the original publisher is. I posted this here especially for the ones that have bought the same hardware (as Eric) but were not able to get a working driver. I already got the next weekend messed up, so I can't re-create this in the staging area where it should live, but it is on my TODO list. I am still not sure if this patch introduces any regressions, in my case I suspect it broke suspend to ram, but I need to test it on a stable kernel to make sure.
(In reply to comment #6) > vlc dvb://frequency=842000000 --deinterlace 1 thank you. in my case it would be vlc dvb://frequency=834000000 --deinterlace 1 but i am getting only this: VLC media player 1.1.7 The Luggage (revision exported) Blocked: call to unsetenv("DBUS_ACTIVATION_ADDRESS") Blocked: call to unsetenv("DBUS_ACTIVATION_BUS_TYPE") [0x605120] main libvlc: Running vlc with the default interface. Use 'cvlc' to use vlc without interface. Blocked: call to setlocale(6, "") Blocked: call to dlopen("/usr/lib64/kde4/plugins/gui_platform/libkde.so", 1) Blocked: call to setlocale(6, "") [0x6ae050] qt4 interface error: Unable to load extensions module [0x6f2d90] dvb access warning: CAMInit: opening CAM device failed (No such file or directory) further i installed w_scan which seems to work but does not find anything at all frequencies: w_scan -c SK -M -t3 w_scan version 20101204 (compiled for DVB API 5.2) using settings for SLOVAKIA DVB aerial DVB-T Europe frontend_type DVB-T, channellist 4 output format mplayer Info: using DVB adapter auto detection. /dev/dvb/adapter0/frontend0 -> DVB-T "Realtek RTL2832 DVB-T": good :-) Using DVB-T frontend (adapter /dev/dvb/adapter0/frontend0) -_-_-_-_ Getting frontend capabilities-_-_-_-_ Using DVB API 5.2 frontend Realtek RTL2832 DVB-T supports INVERSION_AUTO QAM_AUTO TRANSMISSION_MODE_AUTO GUARD_INTERVAL_AUTO HIERARCHY_AUTO FEC_AUTO -_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_ Scanning 7MHz frequencies... 177500: (time: 00:00) i will try now to repair vlc, when i have something new i will report.
hi could you people post the usb ids and tell if its working or not? mine 0458:707F is not working.
EEK! I finally fount the original source for the code I included in the patch, and it seems that this one is already outdated!!! Look here: http://wiki.zeratul.org/doku.php?id=linux:v4l:realtek:start If I read this right, there is the possibility of an external build of the code, this means that an ebuild is likely a better solution than another kernel patch floating around...
We only include patches from the linux upstream development tree. You can either ask the creator of this patch to submit or work to submit yourself.
