On Mon, Oct 10, 2011 at 10:15 AM, Sergey Manucharian <ingeniware@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi Javier, > > Excerpts from Javier Vasquez's message from Sun 09-Oct-11 11:40: >> On Sun, Oct 9, 2011 at 11:29 AM, Sergey Manucharian >> <ingeniware@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> > ... >> > >> > I used to use wintv-hvr 950 a year or two ago - it worked fine. Will try find those old configs and run it again with the recent kernel etc. >> > (Not sure if 850 and 950 similar though). >> > >> > I'let you know the results. >> >> Thanks a lot, that'll be of great help. >> >> BTW, they used to need different drivers: >> >> http://linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php/Hauppauge_WinTV-HVR-850 >> http://linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php/Hauppauge_WinTV-HVR-950 >> >> But nowadays I don't know... The dirvers selected by udev + kernel >> seem to be the right ones (I've tried several things like combining >> them with the ones mentioned in the above links, and blacklisting >> them), since without them the gadget doesn't even turn on, but they >> just don't work, :-) > > They are indeed different, mine has xc2028 chip, while yours - cx231xx, the dmesg file is attached. > > Mine could not catch any signal (although did not show any error) until I installed the firmware. I've found it in aur (xc3028-fw 27-1), you can see the corresponding line in dmesg: > > xc2028 16-0061: Loading 80 firmware images from xc3028-v27.fw, type: xc2028 firmware, ver 2.7 > > I believe you need to install fw for your device as well from: > > http://www.linuxtv.org/downloads/firmware/ (v4l-cx231xx-avcore-01.fw) > > After that everything is straight forward, you can run w_scan (from aur) to create the cahnnel list, put it in /etc/mplayer/channels.conf (if you use mplayer - I never used tvtime) and run "mplayer dvb://". > > -- > Cheers, > Sergey Hi Sergev, and thanks again for the help. See, I didn't think I had to download firmware, since I had it already. As far as I can tell: % ls /lib/firmware/v4l-cx231xx-avcore-01.fw /lib/firmware/v4l-cx231xx-avcore-01.fw Any ways I downloaded the one you pointed out and made a diff, and it to my surprise differed from the one I had. So I moved to old and place downloaded one, and tried again, but it didn't work, :-( See from my first post (with dmesg copied), you can notice that the firmware was loaded: +++++++ [ 143.911324] cx231xx #0: cx231xx_dif_set_standard: setStandard to ffffffff [ 143.933691] cx25840 3-0044: cx23102 A/V decoder found @ 0x88 (cx231xx #0) [ 143.951787] cx25840 3-0044: Firmware download size changed to 16 bytes max length [ 145.954902] cx25840 3-0044: loaded v4l-cx231xx-avcore-01.fw firmware (16382 bytes) +++++++ So I'm not sure it's a FW issue. Any ways, I hoped it was... Any other thing you might think of, even involving FW, it'll be welcome... Thanks, -- Javier.
