[mythtv-users] Upgraded to 16.04 and MythTV 0.28 - now cannot ID capture card

[George Bingham]

Hey all,

Well, I am able to tune in some stations....

Even though mythtv-setup says that it's not able to open the card, my
HVR-2255 is working in the frontend sometimes.

I was surprised to discover that I was still getting current program guide
(I use EIT for my program guide) which I assumed would not work if it
couldn't open the card, so when I attempted again to switch to a specific
channel, it worked.

Tuning is hit or miss, but I am currently watching Person of Interest! ;-)

Here is what lspci reports for this card:

04:00.0 Multimedia controller [0480]: Philips Semiconductors SAA7164
[1131:7164] (rev 81)
        Subsystem: Hauppauge computer works Inc. SAA7164 [0070:f111]
        Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 24
        Memory at df400000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4M]
        Memory at df800000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4M]
        Capabilities: [40] MSI: Enable+ Count=1/16 Maskable- 64bit+
        Capabilities: [50] Express Endpoint, MSI 00
        Capabilities: [74] Power Management version 3
        Capabilities: [7c] Vendor Specific Information: Len=84 <?>
        Capabilities: [100] Vendor Specific Information: ID=0000 Rev=0
Len=060 <?>
        Capabilities: [160] Virtual Channel
        Kernel driver in use: saa7164
        Kernel modules: saa7164

So it seems to be supported by the kernal and like I said earlier, the
firmware is loading at boot time as expected. So, drivers and firmware
loaded OK, and it worked in my earlier patched kernel on MythTV 0.27, I am
thinking this is a bug in 0.28.

Anyone else experiencing capture card wierdness in 0.28?

Advice on working through getting this to be recognized by mythtv setup?

Thanks!

-- George

On Tue, May 3, 2016 at 5:48 PM, George Bingham <georgeb1962 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hello all,
>
> I'd been a long time user of MythTV with my first HVR-2250 capture card
> and so about a year ago I decided to get another capture card for a new
> system. When I did I got the HVR-2255, and after requesting support from
> Hauppauge to get it running under Linux, they provided me with patches and
> some instructions that got it working under the 3.16 kernel that I had to
> custom compile.
>
> Because that system is no longer supported and it was becoming a hassle to
> get packages, I decided to upgrade to the new 16.04 release.
>
> I had read that the kernel patches were required in 3.16 but that as of
> either 4.2 or 4.4 the correct modules / firmware / whatever for the
> HVR-2255 were built in, so I decided to take the plunge....
>
> I got the upgrades done and solved a few of the issues (getting mysql
> updated properly was a challenge), but it seems to be working now.
>
> However, MythTV is not working with this capture card.
>
> Mythtv-setup reports "Could not get card info for card
> /dev/dvb/adapter0/frontend0" and "Unknown error" on my capture card page.
>
> The syslog reports that the firmware is uploading to the card properly and
> that the device is being registered by the system, so I am not sure what's
> going wrong.
>
> This all was working in MythTV 0.27, but the move to 16.04 upgraded me to
> 0.28 so it's a different version of MythTV, but since the kernel and entire
> system has changed as well, I am not sure how to go about fixing this
> problem.
>
> Has anyone else got this card and running it under 16.04 and MythTV 0.28?
>
> Any advice?
>
> Thanks!
>
> -- George
>
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