2008/8/16 Jonathan Hummel <jhhummel@xxxxxxxxxxx>: > On Sat, 2008-08-16 at 13:44 +0930, Robert Golding wrote: >> Whoops, sent to wrong place this sent to mail list, sorry >> >> I have finally got the modules to load the PxDVR 3200 H I bought, >> however, now I am getting "Failed to lock channel" error messages from >> MeTV. >> The 'channels.conf' file is correct as I used for my Dvico DVB-T. >> >> I have replaced the Dvico with the Leadtek because I wanted to be >> able to get local radio and also use the PCI-e channel since I have >> many of them and only one PCI slot. >> >> The card is auto-recognised and loads all dvb modules, including fw >> and frontends. >> >> One other thing, I attached an MS drive and tried it in windows [that >> is another wholly different story :-) ] and it worked very well. I >> had occation to compare the channels info to each other and the Linux >> version is OK. >> >> Any information, no matter how small, to show how I might fix this >> would be greatly apprecited >> > > Rob > > I've been using Me-TV for a while now on a DTV2000H Card, and recently > set up the 3200H card as well, with a lot (and I mean a lot) of help > from Stephen. In my experience, you only really get this message when > the card is getting no reception. Other similar errors which relate to > accessing the card itself happen when another TV programme, such as Myth > is already loaded and locked onto the card. > > I'm not sure radio works on these cards without a lot of effort and > stuffing around each and every time you want to use it. I've never > gotten the 2000H to work on radio, so didn't even bother with the 3200H > though. > > As Stephen said, this card is a bit sensitive to firmware and drivers, > as the patch to allow this card is relatively new (days old). > > cheers > > Jon > > It seems that kernel 2.6.27 (what I was using) is different enough that the modules and fw from Stephens downloads won't work properly. I went back to 2.6.25 and it worked there, so I tried 2.6.26 and it worked there as well. These are the steps I had to do so it would load properly; 1) Compile kernel WITHOUT 'multimedia' i.e. # # Multimedia devices # # # Multimedia core support # # CONFIG_VIDEO_DEV is not set # CONFIG_DVB_CORE is not set # CONFIG_VIDEO_MEDIA is not set # # Multimedia drivers # # CONFIG_DAB is not set & reboot with new kernel (if it was the kernel you were already booted too, don't bother) 2) Download Stephens latest media patches #> wget http://linuxtv.org/hg/~stoth/v4l-dvb/archive/tip.tar.bz2 extract to current dir, then; #> make all #> make install 3) Download Stephens firmware and follow instructions in /Documentation/video4linux/extract_xc3028.pl 4) Reboot machine to load all the correct modules and fw, then open favourite tuner prog (I use Me-TV) and enjoy the viewing. -- Regards, Robert ..... Some people can tell what time it is by looking at the sun, but I have never been able to make out the numbers. --- Errata: Spelling mistakes are not intentional, however, I don't use spell checkers because it's too easy to allow the spell checker to make the decisions and use words that are out of context for that being written, i.e. their/there, your/you're, threw/through and even accept/except, not to mention foreign (I'm Australian) English spelling, i.e. colour/color, socks/sox, etc,. _______________________________________________ linux-dvb mailing list linux-dvb@xxxxxxxxxxx http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linux-dvb
