[mythtv-users] HVR4000 firmware on Ubuntu 12.04 (Precise) 64bit

[Paul Kendall]

On Sun, Aug 19, 2012 at 10:47 PM, plainfaceboy <plainfaceboy at hotmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 11:29 PM, plainface boy
>> <plainfaceboy at hotmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi - I've upgraded to Ubuntu 12.04 (to let me use the later kernel which
>>> will hopefuilly fix the bugs in swithcing channels with this card), but
>>> not
>>> sure how to install the firmware.
>>> I was using 1.26.90.0 as at
>>>
>>> http://www.linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php/Hauppauge_WinTV-HVR-4000#Firmware_v1.26.90.0
>>> which worked fine on Lucid (10.04), and Mythtv 0.25.
>>> I tried installing using the same file etc but didn't work - realised
>>> then I
>>> should probably be using the 64 bit version. Assumed I would need
>>> different
>>> values for the 'skip' and 'count' but can't work out what they should be
>>> form the file  - from looking at the hcwbda.sys file, it is obviosuly
>>> different and the start/end strings (discussed in
>>>
>>> http://www.mythtvtalk.com/firmware-update-hauppauge-nova-hd-s2-hvr-4000-a-12058/)
>>> are in different place (and the end string first and vice versa etc).
>>> I'm hoping someone might be able to help - I've seen links where people
>>> have
>>> reported it working 64 but Ubuntu - to save me messing about too mucb
>>> with
>>> trial and error!
>>> Thanks.
>>>
>>
>> You should be able to use the firmware from your old version of ubuntu
>> as it doesn't
>> have anything to with 64bit or 32bit.  It's the firmware for the card.
>> What I have found
>> is that I have to reverse apply a patch that was made to tidy things
>> up in the hvr-4000
>> code as it won't lock on to any DVB signals without it.
>>
>> Can you provide some log output from dmesg and explain what the symptoms
>> are?
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Paul
>>
> I seem to have got things working!
> I did a fresh install of Ubuntu, added the "linux-firmware-nonfree" package
> as this seems to include the CX24116 firmware. I did update it to the
> 1.26.90.0 though not sure how to tell which version I have.
> I then downloaded the v4l drivers
> (http://hg.kewl.org/pub/v4l-dvb-20100517/), and disabled FireDTV in the
> menuconfig as usual, but compiling failed. I then wondered that (and I'm
> guessing here) because I now have a later kernel I don't actually need to do
> any of this.....so I tried Mythtv and it works. Only tested Freesat (DVB-S)
> channels so far but seems to be good....
>

Yes, with the later kernel you shouldn't any fixes.

Cheers,
Paul