Leadtek Input Devices Driver

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A DVB-TUSB device from Leadtek.

• 1Overview/Features
• 2Making it Work (generic for all dib0700)
  • 2.2Drivers
    • 2.2.3All relevant kernel modules options
  • 2.3Remote control support
    • 2.3.2Using LIRC
  • 2.6Leadtek WinFast DTV Dongle H

Overview/Features

• Supplied with a remote control.

Components Used

• Microtune MT2060 tuner
• Dibcom DiB7700B/C DVB-T demodulator

Identification

There are 5 variants of this device. Their USB IDs are:

• 0413:6f00
• 0413:6f01
• 0413:6029, This is the Leadtek WinFast DTV Dongle Gold. That hardware is completely different. Check here for details.
• 0413:60f6, sold as 'Leadtek WinFast DTV Dongle H'. See below for support status.
• 0413:6a05, sold as 'Leadtek WinFast DTV Dongle Dual'. It has dual tuners and the hardware is completely different. Check the Leadtek WinFast DTV Dongle Dual page for details.

Making it Work (generic for all dib0700)

Firmware

August 21, 2008 - New firmware file fixing the last cause for i2c errors and disconnects and providing a new, more modular i2c request formatting.

You will need the dvb-usb-dib0700-1.20.fw firmware file in /lib/firmware or the relevant place for your distribution.

You may need to change the name of the file to dvb-usb-dib0700-1.10.fw or create a link until the driver code reflects that change.

For archival purposes: dvb-usb-dib0700-1.10.fw firmware file

August 29,2008 - Issues with Firmware 1.20. Some issues have been found with the latest version of the firmware. Users may wish to continue to use 1.10 unless they have patched their v4l-dvb code with dib0700_new_i2c_api.patch.

November 15,2008 - Issues with Firmware 1.20.

• The above mentioned dib0700_new_12c_api.patch is not available discretely but is now rolled into the mercurial drivers
• dvb-usb-dib0700-1.20.fw firmware file is now stable for reception, but remote control functionality is broken; any key press is repeated until the next key is pressed. The only way to get remote control functionality presently is to roll back to 1.10 firmware and suffer the occasional disconnect.
• The mercurial drivers have been changed so they now load 1.20 firmware. To revert to 1.10 firmware you need to rename your firmware file to dvb-usb-dib0700-1.20.fw or provide a link of that name.
• To avoid spurious remote control signals with 1.20 firmware, you need to edit /etc/modprobe.d/options or from Ubuntu onwards /etc/modprobe.d/options.confand add:

November 28,2008 - i2c errors. Changes were made to the remote control drivers on November 16,2008 to correct the repeat key problem. The card is generally stable for dual tuner reception and remote control function with Firmware 1.20.

November 10,2009 - mt2060 I2C write failed.Possible regression of a driver bug raised against Ubuntu running 2.6.27-14 and 2.6.31-2.17 causing mt2060 I2C errors in MythTV useage with firmware 1.20. https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/397696Recommend check the kernel extensions listed here for Low Noise Activation and rc_polling are loaded with correct config file name for your distribution, EIT listings information is turned off until a suitable delay (500ms-1000ms)is added to a single card (not both) and the card has correctly been added to the database as two tuners (no additional NULL entries) in the mythtv recordcard table.

Drivers

It requires the dib0700 driver. Just use Mercurial by following the How to Obtain, Build and Install V4L-DVB Device Drivers instructions.

Forcing the activation of LNAs (Low Noise Amplifier)

You may have to force LNA to get this card working:

In /etc/modprobe.d/options add:

Disabling the remote control sensor

You may want to disable the remote control sensor if you are using another one and want to avoid error messages in the logs:

In /etc/modprobe.d/options add:

All relevant kernel modules options

Leadtek Input Devices Driver

In /etc/modprobe.d/options add:

Get the parameters list using

The debug values are bit fields, with each bit representing a different category. Add values to turn on multiple debugging categories.

dib3000mc

debug

Turn on debugging

Values: integer

Default: 0 (off)

buggy_sfn_workaround

Enable work-around for buggy SFNs

Values: integer

Default: 0 (disabled)

mt2060

debug

Turn on debugging

Values: integer

Default: 0 (off)

dvb_usb_dib0700

force_lna_activation

Force the activation of LNAs (Low Noise Amplifier), if applicable for the device

Values: integer

Default: 0 (automatic/off)

dvb_usb_dib0700_ir_proto

Set IR protocol

Values: integer 0=NEC, 1=RC5, 2=RC6

Default: 1

debug

Set debugging level

Values: integer (bitmap) 1=info, 2=fw, 4=fwdata, 8=data

Default: 0 (none)

dvb_usb

debug

Set debugging level

Values: integer (bitmap) 1=info, 2=xfer, 4=pll, 8=ts, 16=err, 32=rc, 64=fw, 128=mem, 256=uxfer

Default: 0 (none)

disable_rc_polling

Disable remote control polling

Values: integer

Default: 0 (enabled)

force_pid_filter_usage

Force all DVB USB devices to use a PID filter, if any

Values: integer

Default: 0 (disabled)

dvb_core

dvb_net_debug

Enable debug messages

Values: integer

Default: 0 (disabled)

frontend_debug

Turn on frontend core debugging

Values: integer

Default: 0 (off)

dvb_shutdown_timeout

Wait n seconds after close() before suspending hardware

Values: integer

Default: 0

dvb_force_auto_inversion

Set whether INVERSION_AUTO is forced on

Values: integer

Default: 0 (off)

dvb_override_tune_delay

Wait n milliseconds for lock after a tuning attempt

Values: integer

Default: 0

dvb_powerdown_on_sleep

Turn LNB power off on sleep

Values: integer

Default: 1 (enabled)

cam_debug

Enable verbose debug messages

Values: integer

Default: 0 (off)

debug

Turn on debugging

Values: integer

Default: 0

dvbdev_debug

Turn on device debugging

Values: integer

Default: 0 (off)

dibx000_common

debug

Turn on debugging

Values: integer

Default: 0 (off)

Remote control support

Using evdev

As long as the evdev module is loaded, a remote that is recogniced as hid device will be treated as a usb keyboard and this means that you can avoid using lirc.

However, many of the keys on your remote may generate keycodes which are not mapped to anything, by default.

In X you can use xev to find the keycodes and xmodmap to map them to useful symbols. Unfortunately, some keys may generate keycodes that X doesn't recognize at all and the device does not support keymaps, or this would be easy to fix.

Using LIRC

Usually remote controls in linux are managed by the lirc software collection.

To get lirc up and running you need to configure some things.

• Settings for the hardware
  • Where does lirc get its input from? aka. the DEVICE. E.g. /dev/input/event3
  • How to handle the input? aka. the DRIVER. E.g. devinput
• Settings for mapping driver output generated by your remote (a bunch of hex numbers) to key names (something like 0..9, Volume+, Next, Record)
• Settings for mapping key presses to actions (usually located in your .lircrc)

Mythubuntu case

On mythubuntu 10.10, you just have to add this line in /etc/udev/rules.d/65-persistent-hauppauge.rules

Leadtek Input Devices Driver Win 7

Device/driver settings

Find the IR receiver's device by looking in the dmesg output for a line similar to:

Additionally, the IR receiver will be listed if you execute the command:

For example:

In this example, the remote control gives output into /dev/input/event4.

The event number depends on your particular system and can vary.

Eventually this event number can even vary at every reboot.

You could create a new udev rule in /etc/udev/rules.d/65-persistent-hauppauge.rules.

This would make IR receivers handled by the usb_dvb framework always always be linked to /dev/input/dvb-ir.

But Linux systems running recent udev will automatically create non-varying names, a nicer and automatic way of providing a stable input event name:

LIRC will use it without needing a special kernel module. use the dev/input (or devinput. Check this with the command 'lircd --device=help'.) driver and specify the input event device in /etc/lirc/hardware.conf

If you have REMOTE and TRANSMITTER sections in your hardware.conf file, they should look like this:

Remote key setup

See device specific section below or try [1].

Sample .lircrc

A sample .lircrc can be found LircrcExample here.

Keys repeated twice

But there is still the problem of the key repeats for it, so that each keypress will be repeated twice. The patches, as mentioned above, may not work, but a workaround is possilbe. It is described in http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=4253678

Simply add config = echo ' > /dev/null before the main config in .mythtv/lircrc or .lircrc

So each 2nd keypress will be suppressed. This works in some application but not others (e.g. vlc).

Alternatively there is a patch for the kernel driver that solves it, it can be found here.

Finally if that doesn't work and you have the silver remote (A415-HPG-WE-A) then changing the lircd.conf line as follows can prevent the duplicate key presses. This has the side-effect of disabling key repeats for the remote entirely. Changetoggle_bit_mask 0x80000000totoggle_bit_mask 0x00000000

Note: do not try to comment out (using #) any line in this file, or lirc won't work anymore.

Do NOT do this:

Replace the original line instead.

Specific to the model

variant USB ID	general support	remote control
0413:6f00	supported	unknown
0413:6f01	supported	Detected, handles one keypress but then fails.[2]

Sample kernel output

This is for the 6f01 variant.

Leadtek WinFast DTV Dongle H

This is analog and digital TV dongle with USB ID: 0413:60f6. It consists of 3 chips: dib7700 (main chip), cx25843 (analog) and xc3028l (tuner). Support is only for digital part. For using, there must be some changes to V4L-DVB source codes:

• Download actual source code http://linuxtv.org/hg/v4l-dvb .
• Find dib0700_devices.c and backup it.
• Find structure like this:

and append new vid a pid for your dongle (remember number of new 'line').

• Next find tuner and frontend definition:

and to table after this definitions, you can append record to .devices structure leadtek hybrid dongle h USB ID (index of dib0700_usb_id_table is number of 'line').

• Don't forget to increase count of records for this table (located before USB IDS): .num_device_descs.
• Find and backup dvb-usb-ids.h and append USB ID value used in dib0700_devices.c.
• Download dvb-usb-dib0700-1.20 (or 1.10) firmware for main chip and tuner firmware from here: http://lists-archives.org/video4linux/20835-extract-tool-for-xc3028-firmware.html .
• Sometimes is needed to change some values in scandvb config files to AUTO.

Kernel output

External Links

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