<div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Jul 17, 2011 at 10:24 PM, Patrick Oglesby <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:octoberblu3@gmail.com">octoberblu3@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div class="im">On Sun, Jul 17, 2011 at 7:22 PM, Saul A Peebsen <<a href="mailto:jaglover@gmail.com">jaglover@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> A friend of mine is ready to try out MythTV, since this is his first<br>
> adventure to the Linux world I recommended Mythbuntu.<br>
> The trouble is the box he wants to use has only one slot for expansion<br>
> cards and it is PCIe x1, half size.<br>
> Analog is important, this PVR is going to be used for analog cable<br>
> here in the US.<br>
><br>
> The only tuner card that seems to fit hardware-wise is HaupPauge 2250<br>
> (or 1250).<br>
><br>
> I've been Googling to find out if analog side of these cards works, but<br>
> found nothing recent. I did find a post in Ubuntu forums that claimed<br>
> drivers are included in 2.6.37, but there was no confirmation.<br>
><br>
> I browsed kernel sources but couldn't find it.<br>
><br>
> I do not want him to shell out $$$ only to find it does not work.<br>
><br>
> So the question is, how hard (if possible at all) is to get this card<br>
> working with newest kernels?<br>
><br>
> The second question is whether there is anything else he could use, USB<br>
> maybe?<br>
><br>
><br>
<br>
</div>Digital support for this card was added around kernel 2.6.32, and with<br>
analog support being added in 2.6.37<br>
<br>
You may need to download firmware from here<br>
<a href="http://www.kernellabs.com/blog/?cat=3" target="_blank">http://www.kernellabs.com/blog/?cat=3</a><br>
<br>
If you are running a kernel newer than 2.6.37 and you have the correct<br>
firmware installed in the right spot, then the card will just be<br>
recognized upon booting and the appropriate video devices will be<br>
automatically created (/dev/dvb/adapterX for digital where X is 0 and<br>
1 most likely, and /dev/videoX for analog, where X will again be 0 and<br>
1 unless you have a webcam also, which may cause numbering problems)<br>
<br>
Set up in MythTV as DVB and MPEG devices, respecively.<br>
<br>
You can also consider USB devices, but analog support on those can<br>
vary wildly. Also, the HVR-1250 does not have it's analog supported<br>
in linux as the 1250 analog is a dumb framegrabber versus the hardware<br>
MPEG encoder for the 2250.<br>
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- Patrick<br>
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</div></div></blockquote></div><br>So if I fresh install Mythbuntu 11.04 (2.6.38.8-generic) and drop the correct firmware files in /lib/firmware, it should all just work? That would be great. I just have to identify the correct firmware files...<br>
<br>I am a little confused though because I have been reading a thread in the Mythbuntu forums on how to compile for 11.04.<br><br>-Tom<br>