[mythtv-users] Did Hauppauge replace one bad HD-PVR with another?

[Christopher Meredith]

On Fri, Apr 29, 2011 at 11:25 PM, John P Poet <jppoet at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 29, 2011 at 9:50 PM, Christopher Meredith
> <chmeredith at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Had an HD-PVR for almost 2 years when suddenly the component
>> passthrough stopped working, the device started throwing USB errors in
>> dmesg, and the system no longer recognized it as an hdpvr. I tried
>> several USB cables and two different computers, same result. So I
>> RMA'ed it, and Hauppauge sent me a new box, an F2 revision. But this
>> one is doing the exact same thing (though component passthrough works
>> fine). I connected it to a Windows machine and successfully updated
>> the driver to the latest one from the website. But whenever I plug it
>> into a Linux box, this is what I get:
>>
>> [555704.191537] usb 4-4: new full speed USB device using ohci_hcd and address 6
>> [555704.371692] usb 4-4: device descriptor read/64, error -62
>> [555704.670027] usb 4-4: device descriptor read/64, error -62
>> [555704.950860] usb 4-4: new full speed USB device using ohci_hcd and address 7
>> [555705.132295] usb 4-4: device descriptor read/64, error -62
>> [555705.420891] usb 4-4: device descriptor read/64, error -62
>> [555705.710873] usb 4-4: new full speed USB device using ohci_hcd and address 8
>> [555706.132254] usb 4-4: device not accepting address 8, error -62
>> [555706.310874] usb 4-4: new full speed USB device using ohci_hcd and address 9
>> [555706.740863] usb 4-4: device not accepting address 9, error -62
>> [555706.740884] hub 4-0:1.0: unable to enumerate USB device on port 4
>> [555710.590913] usb 2-4: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 5
>>
>> Did they send me another dud? What's up?
>
> I remember some people talking about having to manually add new device
> IDs to the driver, so it would recognize newer-model HD-PVRs.  That
> may be your problem.

Sure enough. I grabbed the latest v4l driver tree from here:

http://linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php/How_to_Obtain,_Build_and_Install_V4L-DVB_Device_Drivers

Build, installed, loaded, and now I get a video device node. Still
haven't tried to get video, but that's one major hurdle down. Thanks!