[mythtv-users] Ceton and HVR-2250

[Tom Bongiorno]

On Tue, Aug 2, 2011 at 3:42 PM, Patrick Oglesby <octoberblu3 at gmail.com>wrote:

> On Tue, Aug 2, 2011 at 2:25 PM, Tom Bongiorno <two.bits.11 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > Hello All,
> >
> > Is anyone successfully running an Ceton InfiniTV 4 alongside a Hauppauge
> > HVR-2250?  I have been having a heck of a time getting this to work.  I
> have
> > tried multiple video cards and motherboards of different brands and
> > chipsets.  The system boots fine upon installation with both cards in the
> > system, but when I copy the HVR-2250 fireware to /lib/firmware and sudo
> make
> > install the Ceton kernel extension?, the system will no longer fully
> boot.
> > I am running a fresh install of Mythbuntu 11.04.  It is an AM3
> processor.  I
> > have tried both AMD and NVIDIA chipset motherboards.  Both these cards
> ran
> > just fine individually within Mythbuntu 11.04, but not together.  The
> > display never comes up with both installed with firmware.  I am able to
> > ctrl-alt-f1 to get to a prompt, but I can't seem to find any errors in
> the
> > logs.  I am at a loss of what to look for or try.  Any help is
> appreciated.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Tom
> >
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> This is my current setup in my master backend. I have the Ceton card
> right next to the HVR-2250 on a motherboard with an AMD chipset with
> ATI 3300 integrated video.  I am running Slackware64-current with the
> 3.0.0 kernel.  I had no troubles with booting with both cards.
>
> Perhaps you can try blacklisting both cards' drivers (saa7164 and
> ctn91xx) and loading them manually after your computer boots.  Make
> sure the firmware is installed correctly before you load the kernel
> modules.
>
> Good luck,
> Patrick
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Ceton just gave me a reset script for the card and now everything is booting
fine.  I am not sure what happened.

-Tom
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