[mythtv-users] 6200ch 1394 Drivers & such

[brett olah]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "brett olah" <rbretto at pacbell.net>
To: "Discussion about mythtv" <mythtv-users at mythtv.org>
Sent: Tuesday, September 20, 2005 8:05 AM
Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] 6200ch 1394 Drivers & such


> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Ian Forde" <ian at duckland.org>
> To: "Discussion about mythtv" <mythtv-users at mythtv.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, September 20, 2005 3:56 AM
> Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] 6200ch 1394 Drivers & such
>
>
> > On Mon, 2005-09-19 at 16:46 -0700, brett olah wrote:
> > > Hi Group,
> > > I've been running several MythTV boxes off Com[unist]cast cable in
South
> San
> > > Jose CA., running as analog (cable directly in to the PC) for a few
> years
> > > and was extatic when I saw the 1394 channel support for DCT6200, no
> longer
> > > limmited to 73 Channels.
> > >
> > > 6200ch compiled fine no problems, I think I'm not a programer, no
> error's
> > > anyway.
> > > I am having an issue getting the channels to change ...
> >
> > You don't need 6200ch anymore.  Myth has support for internal firewire
> > channel-changing for the 6200 boxes.  I was going to point you to the
> > official docs, but it turns out that the docs haven't been updated.
> >
> > On the other hand, looking at the main page http://www.mythtv.org/ one
> > can find the following as the featureset in 0.18.1:
> >
> > "Internal channel-change over firewire support for DCT-6200 series cable
> > boxes - no external program required like before."
> >
> > Sooo...
> >
> > -I
> >
> >
>
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
--
> ----
>  I saw that but I couldn't find any "how to configure" section in the
docs,
> nor on the net.
> digging around I stumbled across the 6200ch with plenty of documentation,
> figured it was worth a try.
>
> I did figure out the file not found issue:
> I was missing the /dev/raw1394 node
>
> It turns out my 6200 is brand new (from comcast, just picked it up last
> week)  and not supported by the 6200ch in contrib
> after hacking it a bit to add my vendor_id & model_id, I think I found::
> vendor_id = 0x000011d8
> model_id  = 0x00000000
> spec_id =  0x0000005e
> software version = 0x00000001
>
> If the code in 0.18.1 is the same/similar I'd expect a similar problem?
>
>
> Thanks
>    Brett;]
>
>
>

I compiled 0.18.1 ... no problems

but ...

Where/How do I turn it on? I think I've exhausted mythtv-setup/mythfrontend
setup, did I miss it?

     Brett;]

depmod:
ieee1394: Initialized config rom entry `ip1394'
ohci1394: $Rev: 1223 $ Ben Collins <bcollins at debian.org>
ohci1394: fw-host0: OHCI-1394 1.1 (PCI): IRQ=[209]  MMIO=[f8025000-f80257ff]
Max Packet=[2048]
ieee1394: Host added: ID:BUS[0-00:1023]  GUID[0011d80000181b03]
ieee1394: Node added: ID:BUS[0-01:1023]  GUID[0014e8fffe19dd19]
ieee1394: raw1394: /dev/raw1394 device initialized

# 1394 Drivers :)
raw1394                33325  0
dv1394                 24461  0
ohci1394               37849  1 dv1394
ieee1394              308216  3 raw1394,dv1394,ohci1394


configure output:
FireWire support yes
compiled w/ no Errors only unrelated warnings:
vbitext/cc.cpp:119: warning: 'int webtv_check(char*, int)' defined but not
used
mpeg/mpegstreamdata.h:139: warning: unused parameter 'tspacket'






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