Medion CTX953

Medion CTX 953

hardware

This card came with the ALDI-machine described [1]. Its a Medion CTX 953_V.1.4.2 DVB-C/analog hybrid PCI-card (P/N 2003 2576) and it has these chips:

NXP SAA 7131E/03/G
CH1394
SF8510.1
TSG 07172

NXP TDA 10046A
SF9349.1
256
07151

NXP 8275AC1
CMOS 38
TP607111

The card has an S-Video IN, an Audio-IN (3.5mm), and a Composite-IN.

pictures

# lspci -vn
05:01.0 0480: 1131:7133 (rev d1)
        Subsystem: 16be:0010
        Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 22
        Memory at ff9ff800 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=2K]
        Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 2

# lspci -v
05:01.0 Multimedia controller: Philips Semiconductors SAA7133/SAA7135 Video 
Broadcast Decoder (rev d1)
        Subsystem: Creatix Polymedia GmbH Unknown device 0010
        Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 22
        Memory at ff9ff800 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=2K]
        Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 2

support

For now, only the DVB-T part is working, the analog part seems to be a bit more complicated. This card seems to be based on the TIGER-S design with external LNA, which is "card=109". I *think* that a firmware file is NOT needed, firmware is instead loaded from the card's eeprom. If it IS needed, either use the updated get_dvb_firmware script or use the file "TT_PCI_2.19h_28_11_2006/software/OEM/PCI/App/ttlcdacc.dll" contained in http://technotrend-online.com/download/software/219/TT_PCI_2.19h_28_11_2006.zip, which you'll have to rename to /lib/firmware/dvb-fe-tda10046.fw.

Generally, you should read http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.video.video4linux/34255.

RF remote control

ALDI also sold a remote bundled with the computer mentioned above. It is NOT connected to the TV-card, but rather sends its RF-signals to an X10-USB-receiver. The remote works nicely using lirc-0.8.2 or higher (0.8.1 does NOT work correctly, you have to press most keys twice because of a missing "toggle_bit_mask"-setting). The modules lirc_atiusb and lirc_dev have to be loaded. Make sure that the kernels atiusb and atiusb2 modules are NOT loaded (don't compile them), they don't work.

lirc

This is my lircd.conf:

# Please make this file available to others
# by sending it to <lirc@bartelmus.de>
#
# this config file was automatically generated
# using lirc-0.8.2(default) on Sun Aug 12 02:13:30 2007
#
# contributed by Ben Adler @ gmx dot net
#
# brand: Medion / X10 (part of http://www.medion.de/md8824/)
# remote control: RF Vista Remote Control (OR24V)
# P/N: 2003 5335
# devices being controlled by this remote: USB RF remote receiver (CM20E), P/N 2003 1776

begin remote

  name  Medion_X10
  bits           16
  eps            30
  aeps          100

  one             0     0
  zero            0     0
  pre_data_bits   8
  pre_data       0x14
  post_data_bits  16
  post_data      0x0
  gap          227978
  toggle_bit_mask 0x80800000

      begin codes
          red                      0x87B2
          yellow                   0x0934
          blue                     0x8AB5
          green                    0x0833
          power                    0xD702
          text                     0xEB16
          tvrecord                 0x6D98
          disc                     0xD904
          table                    0x86B1
          tvplay                   0xF11C
          back                     0x75A0
          info                     0x042F
          volume_up                0x5E89
          volume_down              0xDD08
          mute                     0x5580
          channel_up               0xE00B
          channel_down             0x618C
          cursor_up                0xEF1A
          cursor_down              0x77A2
          cursor_left              0xF21D
          cursor_right             0x749F
          ok                       0xF31E
          start                    0x709B
          track_previous           0xF621
          track_next               0x78A3
          record                   0xFC27
          pause                    0x7EA9
          stop                     0xFD28
          seek_backward            0x79A4
          play                     0xFA25
          seek_forward             0x7BA6
          1                        0xE20D
          2                        0x638E
          3                        0xE40F
          4                        0x6590
          5                        0xE611
          6                        0x6792
          7                        0xE813
          8                        0x6994
          9                        0xEA15
          0                        0x6C97
          asterisk                 0x0C37
          hash                     0x8DB8
          clear                    0x0530
          enter                    0x8BB6
      end codes

end remote