[mythtv-users] hauppauge 950Q ATSC difficulties

[Devin Heitmueller]

On Thu, Dec 20, 2012 at 6:14 PM, Allan Strand <stranda at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I'm trying to record OTA digital TV using a 950Q (with the xc5000 tuner).
> No analog recording needed. Frequently mythbackend fails to recognize the
> device and as a result does not 1) scan channels in setup and/or 2) does not
> record content.  This is the case for 0.26 on a machine running Mint 14 and
> one running Ubuntu 12.04.  On both machines, kaffeine always seems to work
> fine, both channel scanning and recording content, so I know I have a signal
> to the device and that it is functioning.  I have tried adding a
> /etc/modprobe.d/xc5000.conf file with 'options xc5000 no_poweroff=1 ' and
> this does not seem to help.  In addition, I downloaded and compiled the most
> recent v4l-dvb drivers to no avail either.
>
> From looking at the archives, some people have had troubles and others not.
> I have not heard recently about changes that either break or fix
> functionality and was wondering if anyone had some pointers.
>
> thanks,
> allan

Hi Alan,

I did a bunch of fixes for the 950q, including a couple of race
conditions at startup that were occurring with recent kernels.  You
need to be running at least kernel 3.7 in order to get those fixes.  I
know they aren't in 12.04 (which has kernel 3.2), but haven't looked
up what kernels are in different versions of Mint.

In short, get kernel 3.7 or later, and if you still see problems come
back to the mailing list.

Regards,

Devin

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Devin J. Heitmueller - Kernel Labs
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