<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><BR><DIV><DIV>On Nov 16, 2005, at 9:57 AM, <A href="mailto:mythtv-users-request@mythtv.org">mythtv-users-request@mythtv.org</A> wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">1. I see references to the "dvb-kernel" but strong indications that that<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN></FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">code has now been incorporated into the standard kernel.<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>Is standard<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN></FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">2.6.14.1 plus that patch enough or do I need a bunch more patches?<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>If<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN></FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">not, what patches do I need?</FONT></P></BLOCKQUOTE><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV>I had to compile a new kernel.</DIV><DIV><BR><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px"><BR></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">1. Is there any firmware that has to be loaded to the card?<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>I didn't<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN></FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">see anything on the supplied CD-ROM.</FONT></P></BLOCKQUOTE><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV>No</DIV><DIV><BR><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px"><BR></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">2. What modules need to be compiled and loaded?<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>I loaded everything<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN></FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">everything in kernel/drivers/media: v4l2-common, videodev, v4l1-compat,<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN></FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">lgdt330x, dvb-pll, and dvb-core.</FONT></P></BLOCKQUOTE><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV>Pretty sure the dvb-core (after the patch) should work.</DIV><DIV><BR><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px"><BR></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">3. Do I need to set any options for these modules?</FONT></P></BLOCKQUOTE><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV>Not that I recall.</DIV><DIV><BR><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px"><BR></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">4. Do I need to create any device files?<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>I did a bunch of mknods in<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN></FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">/dev/dvb/adapter0 (audio0, ca0, video, etc.), but I don't know if<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN></FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">they're needed.<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>They're all major device 212.</FONT></P></BLOCKQUOTE><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV>The module should do that for you when it loads.</DIV><DIV><BR><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px"><BR></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">5. In mythtv-setup, do I want to select pcHDTV DTV card or DVB DTV<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN></FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">capture card (v3.x)?<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>The latter seems more promising, but I get<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN></FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">"Frontend ID: Could not open card #0!"<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>Neither works.</FONT></P></BLOCKQUOTE><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV>DVB DTV capture card (v3.x)</DIV><DIV>If you launched myth-setup as a regular user then you will not be able to see the card because the permissions on the /dev/dvb directory is not compatible.</DIV><DIV>You can either launch mythtv-setup as root or as root, chmod -R 777 /dev/dvb then switch back to your normal user and run mythtv-setup</DIV><DIV><BR><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px"><BR></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">6. Is there a simple application that can stand in for mythtv while I'm<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN></FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">trying to get basic card functionality working?<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>(I don't want to load<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN></FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">and configure all of KDE for such a purpose.)<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>Really, being able to cat<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN></FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">mpeg2 A+V from a device file to a disk file and then playing it with<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN></FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">mplayer would suffice, but I'm going to have to be able to tune the card.</FONT></P> <BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"></BLOCKQUOTE><BR></DIV><DIV>the dvb-tools azap, etc... I was able to confirm being able to watch ATSC Tv without ever installing myth. In fact trying to get it to work in myth is a whole new ball of wax that I haven't yet figured out.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>did you check out hd5000.com ? That's pretty helpful. If you follow the How-To there but use the hd5000-cleanup.patch it should work. When I ran the patch I found most of the changes had already been made so I did not force the patch for those sections. The patched failed for one block but it was only in a comments section so it had no adverse effect.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><BR></BODY></HTML>