[mythtv-users] Still Can't Get pcHDTV-3000 Installed

Steve Adeff adeffs at gmail.com
Tue Jan 3 19:27:48 UTC 2006


On Tuesday 03 January 2006 12:52, R. Geoffrey Newbury wrote:
> On Sun, 01 Jan 2006 09:58:33 -0800, Drew Tomlinson wrote:
> >On 1/1/2006 9:23 AM Steve Adeff said the following:
> >>On Sunday 01 January 2006 12:05, Drew Tomlinson wrote:
> >>>I have MythTV 0.18.1 running with a PVR-250 card.  About two months ago,
> >>>I added a pcHDTV-3000 card but still can't figure out how it get it
> >>>recognized by the OS.  I'm running 2.6.13-r5 on Gentoo.
>
>  I've tried it both ways but no matter which, I get this output
>
> >>>from dmesg:
> >>>
> >>>cx88xx: disagrees about version of symbol tveeprom_hauppauge_analog
> >>>
> >>>I am under the assumption that the HD-3000 card is one of the Multimedia
> >>>controllers listed and thus, is installed correctly.  Or am I wrong?
> >>
> >>I was going to say you don't need to recompile kernels for this card, but
> >> then I saw your running Gentoo...
> >>anyway:
> >>http://www.penlug.org/twiki/bin/view/Main/DigitalTelevisionDVB
> >
> >Thank you very much!  I'll read it and see if I can get any further...  :)
>
> Two things which are not made too clear in any of the readmes/how-to's.
> The HD3000 card can do both NTSC and ATSC. It uses the cx8800 module for
> NTSC and the cx88-dvb module for ATSC.
> If the wrong one is loaded first....as it appears yours is doing.
>
> Secondly, you should now use the kernel tveeprom module instead of the
> hauppuage (ivtv) module for the PVR250 card. Once you re-compiled the
> kernel, you ended up with 2 tveeprom modules. Previously you used the ivtv
> version to interface with the PVR250 card. Do a 'find / -iname
> 'tveeprom*'. One version may (or may not) be called tveeprom_ivtv. In your
> case probably not.
>
> These modules do the almost the same thing but are (often) named the
> same.... (The linux version of 'dll-hell'). The modules seem to have been
> merged as of ivtv .41. You may want to upgrade to that version if you are
> running something earlier.
> Along with others, I have not had any luck with ivtv .51 and the HD3000
> card. I suggest you not go there.
>
> I don't know how Gentoo does it but if you have a modprobe.conf file,
> comment out the line reading 'alias tveeprom tveeprom_ivtv' in the section
> loading your ivtv drivers.
>
> In order to ensure that you get the cx88-dvb module first check that
> cx88-dvb is listed first in modules.pcimap, which lives in the
> /lib/modules tree (different places in different distros in my
> experience... and it may not exist). It always helps to have the cx88
> modules loaded after the ivtv modules, so that if things go wrong, the
> HD3k card shows up as /dev/video1 (instead of appearing as
> /dev/dvb/adapter0/dvr0) as does not push your pvr250 card from /dev/video0
> to /dev/video1.
>
> In Fedora 4, I do not need to have an entry in modprobe.conf for the
> cx88-dvb module. I presume because the module is listed in modules.pcimap
> and is loaded when the hardware is recognized.  You still need to have
> both sets of firmware loaded too.
>
> HTH
>
> Geoff

good advice, the link I sent does mention this though, if you spend the time 
to read it all.

-- 
Steve


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