[mythtv-users] RE: Fusion HDTV DVB-T Plus card and Fedora Core 4??

[jani]

Andrew and David,

I've been not reading the mailing list recently, but you might be
interested in my attempts to get the DVICO Fusion HDTV working well
with MythTV.  I wrote up my recent experiences, along with all the
problems I encountered at
http://jani.pointclark.net/new_MythTV_guide.html
My setup is currently very stable (runs for weeks at a time with no
crashes), but it's based on Ubuntu (this time, in January I built
based on FC3).  The repository I'm using for MythTV does have version
.18.1 but some of the options aren't what I'd want, so eventually I'm
going to compile from source or cvs and set it up the way I want to
(still have issues getting mythdvd or mythmusic working).

Anyway, hopefully my stuff will help you out.  All the stuff on how I
got my channels tuned for Australia, which online guide data source
etc are in there.

cheers,
jani



On 8/25/05, Buzz  wrote:
> Andrew,
> (cc'd to mythtv-users for other FusionHTDV DVB-T Plus or Fedora Core 4
> users)
> 
> Thanks for your email (and sorry for the delay getting back to you), it was
> really helpful (especially to see the expected dmesg output), and I now have
> a "working but unstable"  setup of FC4+FusionHDTV DVB-T Plus.
> 
> Aparently I had confused the entire install system by having both RPM based
> installs and compiled installs installed at the same time (even though I did
> a 'make uninstall' of the compiled one and a 'rpm -I --force xxx.rpm' to
> re-install the Atrpms version/s....
> 
> ....so a re-install of FC4 and mythtv from Atrpms seemed to help, although
> it was still kinda long-and-complicated to install.
> 
> I didn't need to put the "options cx88xx card=21" in my modprobe.conf,
> infact, I did put it in there and it seemed to stop the card from working,
> so I took it out again.
> 
> I still haven't even tried lirc, more worried about a stable /usable/ system
> first that's "family-proof".
> 
> The channel setup process "scan" that's supposed to 'autodetect' the
> channels seems to NOT work at all with this new install (from Atrpms), but
> in the previous install, at a time that I had it briefly working (probably
> from the SVN sources),  it did work.    Instead, to get it to work now, I
> had to do the 'advanced' setup, enter a "transport" for each channel
> frequency that's being broadcast here in Brisbane, and set the width(I
> forget what it was called) to 7Mhz.    The I could do a "scan of all
> existing transports only", and the channels all appeared.  I got that idea
> from following someone else who had the same problem on a mythtv forum on
> the web somewhere.   Weird huh.
> 
> I've also found that mythfrontend crashes/segfaults if I change the channel
> to many times on live TV (under 10 times usually).  It also keeps throwing
> "file not found" errors in /var/lib/mythtv/  (which is where I told it to
> record to, and has a 'chmod 777' on it to be sure it's not permissions. )
> 
> Oh, and I'm also not entirely sure that it's actually recording stuff.
> I've scheduled a few things today, so I'll get home from work and check it
> tonite.   :-)
> 
> It seems to me like it's all WAY to complicated to setup, and I'm a
> certified RHCE (RedHat Certified Engineer) and sysadmin Linux for a living.
> :-)   It needs to be made simpler, and more "intuitive" to install.     Once
> installed, the front-end is pretty impressive though.   :-)
> 
> 
> My install process went something like this ( I kept a more detailed log of
> exact commands, but it's at home) :
> 1)install FC4 "complete install" - probably over-kill, but I have a big
> disk, and I didn't want to miss anything important.
> 2)yum update
> 3)yum update kernel
> 4)reboot to new kernel
> 4.5) remove old kernel/s if you want, start with: rpm -qa | grep '2.6.11'
> 5)config yum.conf for Atrpms
> 6)yum install mythtv-suite
> 7) setup tv_grab_au (NMSN version)
> 8) setup mysql, and setup mythconverg database (mc.sql)
> 9) mythbackend (for schema upgrade)
> 10) mythtv-setup
> 11) mythfilldatabase
> 11) mythbackend &
> 12) mythfrontend [-v channel|all]
> 13) while not working,goto step 10, repeat 10->12 till working, fiddling
> with semi-random settings.
> 
> 
> How's your install going?
> 
> 
> David B.
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Andrew S
> Sent: Monday, 22 August 2005 3:06 AM
> To: buzz
> Subject: Re: Fusion HDTV DVB-T Plus card and Fedora Core 4??
> 
> 
> Just saw your post on the MythTV list via Gossamer Threads (the archives). I
> am replying to you via email because I am not a list member.
> 
> I have only just finished setting up (ie tonight !) an FC4 box with the
> Fusion HDTV DVB-T Plus card, which has been OK for me. Not sure where you
> are, but I am in Australia, so all below applies to the version of the card
> shipped here.
> 
> I cannot comment on the segfaulting of your subversion checkout of myth, but
> there was one large discrepancy in your email vs what I have seen:
> 
> I am using the atrpms install of MythTV, and have found that DVB support
> *is* compiled in. I was bracing myself for a long round of
> download/compile/test cycles, but was pleasantly surprised when it all
> worked "out the box".
> 
> I am running kernel 2.6.12-1.1398_FC4
> 
> The dmesg output at boot:
> 
> Linux video capture interface: v1.00
> cx2388x dvb driver version 0.0.4 loaded
> cx88[0]: subsystem: 18ac:db11, board: DVICO FusionHDTV DVB-T Plus
> [card=21,insmod option]
> ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:0a.2[A] -> Link [LNKC] -> GSI 10 (level, low) ->
> IRQ 10
> cx88[0]/2: found at 0000:00:0a.2, rev: 5, irq: 10, latency: 32, mmio:
> 0xdf000000
> cx88[0]/2: cx2388x based dvb card
> DVB: registering new adapter (cx88[0]).
> DVB: registering frontend 0 (DVICO FusionHDTV DVB-T Plus)...
> cx2388x v4l2 driver version 0.0.4 loaded
> ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:0a.0[A] -> Link [LNKC] -> GSI 10 (level, low) ->
> IRQ 10
> cx88[0]/0: found at 0000:00:0a.0, rev: 5, irq: 10, latency: 32, mmio:
> 0xde000000
> cx88[0]/0: registered device video0 [v4l2]
> cx88[0]/0: registered device vbi0
> 
> To get this I had to use the following modprobe.conf option:
> 
> options cx88xx card=21
> 
> And that was about it. Ran mythtvsetup, selected a DVB card as the type of
> capture card and I was away.
> 
> The only compilation I have had to do is to lirc, to hack it to work with
> the DVICO remote I got with the card. The drivers that came with lirc (even
> lirc 0.7.2, which is supposed to support the remote) did not work with the
> model I was shipped with, which looks like this:
> 
> http://www.eyo.com.au/img/ups,kvm,usb/hdtv5remote.jpg
> 
> If you eventually do get myth working, but can't get the remote working let
> me know and I will try to help ..
> 
> Good luck,
> 
> Andrew