On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 8:16 AM, fabio tirapelle <ftirapelle@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> My WinTV-HVR-1120 works if I delete dvb-fe-tda10048-1.0.fw and
> rename dvb-fe-tda10046.fw in dvb-fe-tda10048-1.0.fw
> (see cf "Hauppauge WinTV-HVR-1120 on Unbuntu 10.04" thread).
> After reboot my WinTV-HVR-1120 works. Ubuntu recognizes that the firmware isn't
> correct and doesn't load the firmware.
How come it works without the firmware !? Is it possible that you
booted into Windows before that and there is a correct firmware
already running in the card ?
> But I know that isn't a good practice.
>
>
> ----- Messaggio originale -----
>> Da: Sasha Sirotkin <demiurg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> A: Albin Kauffmann <albin.kauffmann@xxxxxxxxx>
>> Cc: linux-media@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> Inviato: Dom 24 ottobre 2010, 23:45:55
>> Oggetto: Re: Wintv-HVR-1120 woes
>>
>> On Sun, Oct 24, 2010 at 10:22 PM, Sasha Sirotkin <demiurg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>wrote:
>> > On Sun, Oct 24, 2010 at 8:55 PM, Albin Kauffmann
>> > <albin.kauffmann@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> >> On Thursday 21 October 2010 23:25:29 Sasha Sirotkin wrote:
>> >>> I'm having all sorts of troubles with Wintv-HVR-1120 on Ubuntu 10.10
>> >>> (kernel 2.6.35-22). Judging from what I've seen on the net, including
>> >>> this mailing list, I'm not the only one not being able to use this
>> >>> card and no solution seem to exist.
>> >>>
>> >>> Problems:
>> >>> 1. The driver yells various cryptic error messages
>> >>> ("tda18271_write_regs: [1-0060|M] ERROR: idx = 0x5, len = 1,
>> >>> i2c_transfer returned: -5", "tda18271_set_analog_params: [1-0060|M]
>> >>> error -5 on line 1045", etc)
>> >>
>> >> yes, indeed :(
>> >> (cf "Hauppauge WinTV-HVR-1120 on Unbuntu 10.04" thread)
>> >>
>> >>> 2. DVB-T scan (using w_scan) produces no results
>> >>
>> >> Is this happening after each reboot? As far as I'm concerned, I've never
>>had
>> >> problems with DVB-T scans.
>> >>
>> >
>> > Almost always. I think I had a lucky reboot or two, but most of the
>> > time DVB-T scan produces nothing.
>> >
>> >>> 3. Analog seems to work, but with very poor quality
>> >>
>> >> I just tried to use Analog TV in order to confirm the problem but I cannot
>>get
>> >> any picture. Maybe I just don't know how to use it. I'm using commands
> like
>> >> (I'm located in France):
>> >>
>> >> mplayer tv:// -tv driver=v4l2:norm=SECAM:chanlist=france -tvscan autostart
>> >>
>> >> ... and just get some "snow" on scanned channels.
>> >> As I might have a problem with my antenna (an interior one), I am going to
>> >> test it under Windows and report back my experience.
>> >
>> > I'm using tvtime-scanner
>> >>
>> >> Cheers,
>> >>
>> >> --
>> >> Albin Kauffmann
>> >>
>> >
>> >
>> > I'm trying to downgrade the kernel now to see if it helps
>> >
>>
>> I went back as far as 2.6.30 and I still have this problem. 2.6.29
>> does not recognize this card at all.
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