Hi all Im forwarding this email as suggested by LinuxSA mailing list Im interested in your response, it would be a shame to see this patch lost due to being sent to the wrong list. thanks Darrin -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: TV cards Date: Fri, 7 Mar 2008 13:35:49 +1030 From: Mike Lampard <mike@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: linuxsa@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx CC: Darrin Ritter <darrinritter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> References: <47D0A029.3060404@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Hi Darrin, On Friday 07 March 2008 12:23:45 Darrin Ritter wrote: > Hi all > > Well after some deliberation I decided to take the plunge and install a > TV card in my mythbox. So I did my research and found that there were 2 > that suited me. the Leadtek 1000T and the Leadtek 2000H, the first was > superseded by the 1000S so I had to go with the 2000H card. > > After some considerable time I managed to get a picture out of it and I > had to specify in the /etc/modprobe.d/options "options cx88xx card=51" > (with out the quotation marks) to get the kernel to recognize the card > and now I have picture but no sound. > > after further research I found the the card that I bought was version J > instead of version i that currently already works and then I found this > post in lkml list > http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/2/6/289 > the text below > > Hello all, > > I bought Leadtek WinFast DTV2000H, but it didn't work. I found, that > there are two types of this card. Type I (older), and type J (latest) > ... and only type I is supported by the module. > > Type J is not autodetected, and if you force card type (card = 51), > DVB-T works, but there is no sound in analogue television. I know why > (multiplexer, which is switching between the radio, TV, and external > sound is driven by GPIO pins ... and setting of this pins is wrong), and > I wrote a patch, which makes this card (DTV2000H type J) works. > > With this patch, card is autodetected, I'm having sound in analogue > television, I can switch between antenna, and cable signal input, and I > can see video from external S-video and composite video input. > > So ... I'm sending this patch to you. I think it will be good to add > support for this card to the cx88xx module. > > Bye, > > > Zbynek Hrabovsky, Brno, Czech Republic > > It would appear that this would solve my problem but where do I go from > here? is there a way of checking that the patch actually made it into > the kernel? can I patch the kernel myself and rebuild it? > > I'm using Ubuntu Gutsy 32 bit on a athlon64 3000 with 512MB ram > > any help appreciated > > Thanks Darrin It appears there was no response on the Linux Kernel mailinglist to the original post, so I don't know for sure if the patch was applied upstream, but a quick scan of the kernel changelogs doesn't look positive. The poster didn't send the patch to the linux-dvb mailinglist either afaics, so it may have been missed completely. You can try to apply the patch to your Linux kernel source, however depending on how recent your kernel version is you may need to do a bit of manual editing to one or more of the cx88 source files. I'd suggest joining the linux-dvb@xxxxxxxxxxx mailinglist, and maybe sending your original email to that list, as the patch is more likely to be picked up if posted there (it's where the dvb driver developers hang out). They may also know of an alternative method for enabling your card. Good Luck Mike _______________________________________________ linux-dvb mailing list linux-dvb@xxxxxxxxxxx http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linux-dvb
