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

Steve Adeff adeffs at gmail.com
Thu Jan 12 14:30:49 UTC 2006


On Thursday 12 January 2006 09:10, Brian Wood wrote:
> On Jan 12, 2006, at 3:43 AM, Drew Tomlinson wrote:
> > I got it working!  I'm using Gentoo sources for 2.6.13-r5 and selected
> > these choices:
> >
> > Multimedia devices --->
> >     <M> Video For Linux
> >         Video For Linux --->
> >             <M> Conexant 2388x (bt878 successor) support
> >             <M>   DVB Support for cx2388x based TV cards
> >
> > I also downloaded "Firmware" from http://www.pchdtv.com/downloads.html
> > and unpacked in to /lib/firmware (not  /usr/lib/hotplug/firmware)
> > as the
> > page suggest.  I don't remember where I read about that because I
> > did it
> > during a previous attempt to get the card working.
> >
> > Another issue I had was permissions on the actual devices in
> > /dev/dvb/adapter0.  They were root:root with 660.  I read something
> > about checking /etc/udev/permissions.d/10-pchdtv.permissions.  It was
> > there and seemed like it should set the devices up as root:user but my
> > devices remained root:root.  So I edited
> > /etc/udev/rules.d/10-pchdtv.rules and added 'GROUP="user"' to each
> > entry
> > I needed.  Here's an example:
> >
> > From
> > KERNEL="dvb0.dvr*",        NAME="dvb/adapter0/dvr%n"
> >
> > To
> > KERNEL="dvb0.dvr*",        NAME="dvb/adapter0/dvr%n", GROUP="user"
> >
> > After a reboot, my devices were now owned by root:user and since my
> > MythTV user is in the "user" group, it could access the devices.  I
> > don't know if that was the "right" way to go about it but it works for
> > me. (pointers to the "right" way welcomed)
> >
> > I tested the card for output as indicated in the guide and it's
> > working
> > fine.  Now on the mythtv-setup to finish...  :)
> >
> > Drew
>
> Great, glad to hear it, I'm running 2.6.14 but I think it'll be
> similar enough. I have had the card working outside MythTV and it
> seems to work, so I know I have the firmware etc. correct.
>
> I wanted to grab one of those cards now, before the government makes
> them illegal to sell because they will ignore any sort of "broadcast
> flag" which the evil forces are still pressuring Congress to mandate.
>
> I intended the card for off-air ATSC reception but was surprised to
> find it received all of the digital QAM signals on my local cable
> system, including the premium and pay-per-view stuff, unfortunately I
> have not found any of that worth watching :-)

Drew, glad to hear you finally got it working, I was almost going to suggest a 
different distro! (the new Kanotix's kernel has support without having to 
change anything, I just installed it on my new system drive...).

Brian, lucky, that you get the premium channels over QAM, does this include 
HBO and the like? I noticed my cable has these two, but they do a weird 
rotating thing where the channel will "change" without actually changing the 
channel (at least it does this on my TV's QAM, I don't think I was ever able 
to get these channels on my HD3000...)

-- 
Steve


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