Re: Leadtek Winfast PxDVR 3200 H

[stev391@xxxxxxxxx]

Jon,

Your email got my interest.  I was looking for a card with those specs here in Australia, so I went and bought one... (However, thankyou for your photo)

I was unable to get RegSpy to work with this card in windows for some reason, so I was unable to verify those results.

So far I have only spend an hour or so working on a driver, I have worked out the tuner and demod i2c addresses. However I need to work out how it selects analog or digital mode and gets the video. So in other words the easy bits are done but nothing is working yet...

When I get a working driver done, I will let you (and the mailing list) know. 

Anybody can provide any guidance it would be useful.

Regards,
Stephen.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jonathan Hummel"
To: stev391@xxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: Leadtek Winfast PxDVR 3200 H
Date: Sat, 02 Aug 2008 17:43:45 +1000


Hi Stephen

There was already a page of sorts:
http://www.linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php/Leadtek_Winfast_PxDVR_3200_H
I've added to it. I don't have winodws on that machine, but it apears
someone has done that for me already.
I have some more photos, of even higher res is you want them, but won't
clutter up everyone's inbox if not need/ wanted.

Cheers

Jon



On Mon, 2008-07-28 at 08:55 +1000, stev391@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> Jon,
>
> It appears that this card uses the CX23885 PCIe controller.
>
> From initial research on the Leadtek site it appears that this card
> utilises the following main chips:
> Conexant CX23885 - PCIe Interface
> Conexant CX23417 - Analog Video to MPEG2 Encoder
> Intel CE6353 - Digital TV Demodulator (Formerly known as Zarlink
> 10353)
> Xceive ????? - Digital TV Tuner,
>
> All of the above that I have identified have drivers in linux in
> various stages of development.
>
> Can you take a high res photo of the card showing all chip IDs?
> Can you identify which tuner from Xceive it is?
> Do you have a partition set up with windows and the card working?
> If so can you use regspy (Google "Dscaler Regspy" to find the
> correct program), and record what the values are for:
> - Card sitting idle straight after bootup
> - Watching Digital TV
> - Watching Analog TV
> - Sitting idle after watching TV
>
> What is the output of `lspci -vnn` when in linux regarding this card?
>
> What does `dmesg | grep cx23885` give you?
>
> It might also be useful for others who have this card if you make an
> entry the linuxtv wiki for this card, with all of the information that
> I have requested linked to or included.
>
> I may be able to knock up a driver that you can use for the digital TV
> side as this seems similar to other existing cards, I'm not familiar
> with the Analog side though. (No gurantees, but it should be
> relatively simple to achieve).
>
> Regards,
>
> Stephen.
>
>
> --- Original Message ---
> Hi,
>
> I was wondering if anyone could help me get this card up and
> working in
> kubuntu 8.04. I've tried setting it up much like a Leadtek
> DTV2000H,
> version J, as per instructions here:
> http://wiki.linuxmce.org/index.php/Leadtek_DTV2000H
> (I've been using that card for a while in another box)
>
> System:
> Gibagyte moher board (all in one) GA-MA78GM-S2H
> AMD Athlon X2 6000 (2 core, 3GHz)
> 4G ram, heaps of hard disk
> 64bit KDE 4 kubuntu, kernel: 2.6.24-20 generic
>
> http://www.linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php/DVB-T_PCIe_Cards
> suggested I email this address.
>
>
> cheers
>
> Jon
>
>
>
>
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