[mythtv-users] FC3 + CVS dvb-kernel + Nova-T Install MINI-HOWTO (1Jan05)

[Christopher McEwan]

On Tue, 18 Jan 2005 13:56:19 +0000, Graeme Hilton
<graeme.hilton at fishter.org.uk> wrote:
> 
> > ========= FC3 + CVS dvb-kernel + Nova-T Install
> > MINI-HOWTO================
> > ========= By: Paul Pettigrew, Sydney-Australia. 1 Jan 2005
> > ================
> 
> <snip>
> 
> > To unload the drivers that may already be loaded (but are not our fresh
> > CVS ones), and to load up our CVS ones, enter the following commands
> > respectively:
> > # ./insmod.sh unload
> >
> > # ./insmod.sh load
> > There will be some errors, as drivers for cards we do not have will
> > attempt
> > to load. If you get this behaviour, this is fine for now, as we will
> > determine shortly if our drivers have loaded correctly. For me, I get the
> > following output to the 'load' command:
> > Inserting DVB modules into kernel
> > FATAL: Module crc32 not found.
> > FATAL: Module firmware_class not found.
> > FATAL: Module evdev not found.
> >
> > The devices will now be created. Confirm by entering:
> > # ls /dev/d*
> >
> > You will now see:
> > /dev/dnrtmsg /dev/dvb0.demux0 /dev/dvb0.frontend0
> > /dev/dsp /dev/dvb0.dvr0 /dev/dvb0.net0
> 
> Everything seems to work until I reach this point where the /dev/dvb
> entries just don't exist. I've upgraded udev to the latest version in
> the development directory on atrpms.net
> 
> The /sbin/lspci -v brings up the following:
> 00:0b.0 Multimedia video controller: Conexant Winfast TV2000 XP (rev 05)
> Subsystem: Hauppauge computer works Inc.: Unknown device 9002
> Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 169
> Memory at ea000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16M]
> Capabilities: [44] Vital Product Data
> Capabilities: [4c] Power Management version 2
> 
> 00:0b.2 Multimedia controller: Conexant: Unknown device 8802 (rev 05)
> Subsystem: Hauppauge computer works Inc.: Unknown device 9002
> Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 169
> Memory at eb000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16M]
> Capabilities: [4c] Power Management version 2
> 
> 00:0b.4 Multimedia controller: Conexant: Unknown device 8804 (rev 05)
> Subsystem: Hauppauge computer works Inc.: Unknown device 9002
> Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 169
> Memory at ec000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16M]
> Capabilities: [4c] Power Management version 2
> 
> Which is slightly different to that in the Howto, in that the howto has
> a Phillips chip mentioned, where mine has Conexant.
> 
> I'm new to Fedora and Linux in genereal so would apprectiate any advice
> on what I've done wrong, or any steps I can take to fix this.
> 
> PS. My system is Athlon 64 bit, so where I can I've used the x86_64 rpms
> instead of the i386's.
> 
> --
> Graeme Hilton
> 
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> 
Try this guide instead, the philips chipset is the old style Nova-T's,
the Conexant chip is the new style.

Thanks to Richard for the guide.

http://www.helkit.com/cgi-bin/twiki/bin/view/Main/MythTVDVB-TAndConexantNotes

-- 
Regards,


~CM