Only Steven can look at the schematic and know for sure what prompted them to update to a new PCI ID. However, you can definitely try doing "card=4" and see if it works. Card=9 won't work since that card number is not valid given the card list in your driver. Devin On Sun, Aug 14, 2011 at 7:23 PM, Declan Mullen <declan.mullen@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Sunday 14 August 2011 22:14:48 you wrote: >> On Sun, Aug 14, 2011 at 5:21 AM, Declan Mullen >> >> <declan.mullen@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> > Hi >> > >> > I've got a 8940 edition of a Hauppauge HVR-2200. The driver is called >> > saa7164. The versions included in my OS (mythbuntu 10.10 x86 32bit, >> > kernel 2.6.35-30) and from linuxtv.org are too old to recognise the 8940 >> > edition. Posts #124 to #128 in the "Hauppauge HVR-2200 Tuner Install >> > Guide" topic >> > (http://www.pcmediacenter.com.au/forum/topic/37541-hauppauge-hvr-2200-tun >> > er- install-guide/page__view__findpost__p__321195) document my efforts >> > with those versions. >> > >> > So I wish to use the latest stable drivers from the driver maintainers, >> > ie http://kernellabs.com/gitweb/?p=stoth/saa7164-stable.git;a=summary >> > >> > Problem is, I don't know git and I don't know how I'm suppose to git, >> > build and install it. >> > >> > Taking a guess I've tried: >> > git clone git://kernellabs.com/stoth/saa7164-stable.git >> > cd saa7164-stable >> > make menuconfig >> > make >> > >> > However I suspect these are not the optimum steps, as it seems to have >> > downloaded and built much more than just the saa7164 drivers. The git >> > pulled down nearly 1GB (which seems a lot) and the resultant menuconfig >> > produced a very big ".config". >> > >> > Am I doing the right steps or should I be doing something else to git, >> > build and install the latest drivers ? >> > >> > Thanks, >> > Declan >> >> Hello Declan, >> >> Blame Mauro and the other LinuxTV developers for moving to Git. When >> we had HG you could do just the v4l-dvb stack and apply it to your >> existing kernel. Now you have to suck down the *entire* kernel, and >> there's no easy way to separate out just the v4l-dvb stuff (like the >> saa7164 driver). The net effect is it's that much harder for >> end-users to try out new drivers, and even harder still for developers >> to maintain drivers out-of-tree. >> >> All that said, Ubuntu 10.10 deviates very little in terms of the >> saa7164 driver. What you have is probably already identical to what's >> in the kernellabs.com tree. >> >> And yes, PAL support is broken even in the kernellabs tree, so if that >> was your motivation then updating to the current KL stable tree won't >> help you. >> >> Cheers, >> >> Devin > > Many thanks for the clarification about git. > > The only reason why I'm attempting to use a newer saa7164 driver is > because the driver in my ubuntu 10.10 (2.6.35-30, x86 32bit) doesn't > recognise the 8940 edition of my HVR-2200 (and doesn't support the > "card=9" option that I believe is specifically for the 8940 edition). > > Example dmesg output: > $ dmesg | grep saa7 > [ 18.367431] saa7164 driver loaded > [ 18.367467] saa7164 0000:02:00.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 16 > [ 18.367472] saa7164[0]: Your board isn't known (yet) to the driver. > [ 18.367473] saa7164[0]: Try to pick one of the existing card configs via > [ 18.367474] saa7164[0]: card=<n> insmod option. Updating to the latest > [ 18.367475] saa7164[0]: version might help as well. > [ 18.367684] saa7164[0]: Here are valid choices for the card=<n> insmod option: > [ 18.367739] saa7164[0]: card=0 -> Unknown > [ 18.367789] saa7164[0]: card=1 -> Generic Rev2 > [ 18.367840] saa7164[0]: card=2 -> Generic Rev3 > [ 18.367891] saa7164[0]: card=3 -> Hauppauge WinTV-HVR2250 > [ 18.367943] saa7164[0]: card=4 -> Hauppauge WinTV-HVR2200 > [ 18.367995] saa7164[0]: card=5 -> Hauppauge WinTV-HVR2200 > [ 18.368059] saa7164[0]: card=6 -> Hauppauge WinTV-HVR2200 > [ 18.368112] saa7164[0]: card=7 -> Hauppauge WinTV-HVR2250 > [ 18.368164] saa7164[0]: card=8 -> Hauppauge WinTV-HVR2250 > [ 18.369142] CORE saa7164[0]: subsystem: 0070:8940, board: Unknown [card=0,autodetected] > [ 18.369147] saa7164[0]/0: found at 0000:02:00.0, rev: 129, irq: 16, latency: 0, mmio: 0xfd400000 > [ 18.369152] saa7164 0000:02:00.0: setting latency timer to 64 > [ 18.369162] saa7164_initdev() Unsupported board detected, registering without firmware > > To get this 8940 card working with my ubuntu 10.10 system, > what would you recommend I try ? > > Should I be trying to extract the new driver from what the above > git and makes, ie just copy into place the new saa7164.ko file ? > Or should my existing driver work if i use the card=4 option ? > > Thanks, > Declan > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-media" in > the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > -- Devin J. 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