[mythtv-users] hauppauge 950Q ATSC difficulties

[Allan Strand]

Hi Devin,
I was running a 3.5 kernel.  Unfortunately, after compiling and installing
kernel version 3.7.1 and updating the v4l-dvb modules again, I see the same
behavior.

cheers,
a.

On Thu, Dec 20, 2012 at 9:22 PM, Devin Heitmueller <
dheitmueller at kernellabs.com> wrote:

> 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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Allan Strand,   Biology    http://linum.cofc.edu
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