<div dir="ltr">Hey all,<div><br></div><div>Well, I am able to tune in some stations....</div><div><br></div><div>Even though mythtv-setup says that it's not able to open the card, my HVR-2255 is working in the frontend sometimes.</div><div><br></div><div>I was surprised to discover that I was still getting current program guide (I use EIT for my program guide) which I assumed would not work if it couldn't open the card, so when I attempted again to switch to a specific channel, it worked.</div><div><br></div><div>Tuning is hit or miss, but I am currently watching Person of Interest! ;-)</div><div><br></div><div>Here is what lspci reports for this card:</div><div><br></div><div><div><div>04:00.0 Multimedia controller [0480]: Philips Semiconductors SAA7164 [1131:7164] (rev 81)</div><div> Subsystem: Hauppauge computer works Inc. SAA7164 [0070:f111]</div><div> Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 24</div><div> Memory at df400000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4M]</div><div> Memory at df800000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4M]</div><div> Capabilities: [40] MSI: Enable+ Count=1/16 Maskable- 64bit+</div><div> Capabilities: [50] Express Endpoint, MSI 00</div><div> Capabilities: [74] Power Management version 3</div><div> Capabilities: [7c] Vendor Specific Information: Len=84 <?></div><div> Capabilities: [100] Vendor Specific Information: ID=0000 Rev=0 Len=060 <?></div><div> Capabilities: [160] Virtual Channel</div><div> Kernel driver in use: saa7164</div><div> Kernel modules: saa7164</div></div></div><div><br></div><div>So it seems to be supported by the kernal and like I said earlier, the firmware is loading at boot time as expected. So, drivers and firmware loaded OK, and it worked in my earlier patched kernel on MythTV 0.27, I am thinking this is a bug in 0.28. </div><div><br></div><div>Anyone else experiencing capture card wierdness in 0.28? </div><div><br></div><div>Advice on working through getting this to be recognized by mythtv setup?</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks!</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div class="gmail_signature">-- George</div></div>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, May 3, 2016 at 5:48 PM, George Bingham <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:georgeb1962@gmail.com" target="_blank">georgeb1962@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 dir="ltr">Hello all,<div><br></div><div>I'd been a long time user of MythTV with my first HVR-2250 capture card and so about a year ago I decided to get another capture card for a new system. When I did I got the HVR-2255, and after requesting support from Hauppauge to get it running under Linux, they provided me with patches and some instructions that got it working under the 3.16 kernel that I had to custom compile.</div><div><br></div><div>Because that system is no longer supported and it was becoming a hassle to get packages, I decided to upgrade to the new 16.04 release.</div><div><br></div><div>I had read that the kernel patches were required in 3.16 but that as of either 4.2 or 4.4 the correct modules / firmware / whatever for the HVR-2255 were built in, so I decided to take the plunge....</div><div><br></div><div>I got the upgrades done and solved a few of the issues (getting mysql updated properly was a challenge), but it seems to be working now. </div><div><br></div><div>However, MythTV is not working with this capture card. </div><div><br></div><div>Mythtv-setup reports "Could not get card info for card /dev/dvb/adapter0/frontend0" and "Unknown error" on my capture card page.</div><div><br></div><div>The syslog reports that the firmware is uploading to the card properly and that the device is being registered by the system, so I am not sure what's going wrong. </div><div><br></div><div>This all was working in MythTV 0.27, but the move to 16.04 upgraded me to 0.28 so it's a different version of MythTV, but since the kernel and entire system has changed as well, I am not sure how to go about fixing this problem. </div><div><br></div><div>Has anyone else got this card and running it under 16.04 and MythTV 0.28?</div><div><br></div><div>Any advice?</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks!</div><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><div><br></div><div><div><div>-- George</div></div>
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