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Kathars!s
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 Posted: Thu Mar 03, 2005 2:43 pm Post subject: [SOLVED] wintv nexus-s a lot of problems |
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hello, i've got some malicious problems with my "hauppauge wintv nexus-s" dvb-s card.
there are no device-nodes in /dev/dvb with devfs and no /dev/dvb* with udev.
after i couldn't get it to work with devfs i migrated to udev with the hope it would work then.
creating the device-nodes with /usr/doc/linuxtv.../makedev-dvb.sh does not work either.
what i did:
compiled a new 2.6.11 kernel from gentoo-dev-sources with my old config from 2.6.10. i set the whole dvd stuff to compile as modules because i often saw this to be recommended. added dvb_ttpci to my modules.autoload.d/kernel-2.6 file. here's the dvb part from my .config:
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# Multimedia devices
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CONFIG_VIDEO_DEV=m
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# Video For Linux
#
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# Video Adapters
#
# CONFIG_VIDEO_BT848 is not set
# CONFIG_VIDEO_BWQCAM is not set
# CONFIG_VIDEO_CQCAM is not set
# CONFIG_VIDEO_CPIA is not set
# CONFIG_VIDEO_SAA5246A is not set
# CONFIG_VIDEO_SAA5249 is not set
# CONFIG_TUNER_3036 is not set
# CONFIG_VIDEO_STRADIS is not set
# CONFIG_VIDEO_ZORAN is not set
# CONFIG_VIDEO_MEYE is not set
# CONFIG_VIDEO_SAA7134 is not set
# CONFIG_VIDEO_MXB is not set
# CONFIG_VIDEO_DPC is not set
# CONFIG_VIDEO_HEXIUM_ORION is not set
# CONFIG_VIDEO_HEXIUM_GEMINI is not set
# CONFIG_VIDEO_CX88 is not set
# CONFIG_VIDEO_OVCAMCHIP is not set
#
# Radio Adapters
#
# CONFIG_RADIO_GEMTEK_PCI is not set
# CONFIG_RADIO_MAXIRADIO is not set
# CONFIG_RADIO_MAESTRO is not set
#
# Digital Video Broadcasting Devices
#
CONFIG_DVB=y
CONFIG_DVB_CORE=m
#
# Supported SAA7146 based PCI Adapters
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CONFIG_DVB_AV7110=m
CONFIG_DVB_AV7110_FIRMWARE=y
CONFIG_DVB_AV7110_FIRMWARE_FILE="/lib/firmware/dvb-ttpci-01.fw"
CONFIG_DVB_AV7110_OSD=y
# CONFIG_DVB_BUDGET is not set
# CONFIG_DVB_BUDGET_CI is not set
# CONFIG_DVB_BUDGET_AV is not set
#
# Supported USB Adapters
#
# CONFIG_DVB_TTUSB_BUDGET is not set
# CONFIG_DVB_TTUSB_DEC is not set
# CONFIG_DVB_DIBUSB is not set
# CONFIG_DVB_CINERGYT2 is not set
#
# Supported FlexCopII (B2C2) Adapters
#
# CONFIG_DVB_B2C2_SKYSTAR is not set
# CONFIG_DVB_B2C2_USB is not set
#
# Supported BT878 Adapters
#
#
# Supported DVB Frontends
#
#
# Customise DVB Frontends
#
#
# DVB-S (satellite) frontends
#
CONFIG_DVB_STV0299=m
CONFIG_DVB_CX24110=m
CONFIG_DVB_TDA8083=m
CONFIG_DVB_TDA80XX=m
CONFIG_DVB_MT312=m
CONFIG_DVB_VES1X93=m
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i did set the path to my firmware (emerged linuxtv-dvb)
| Code: | till@till ~ $ emerge -pv linuxtv-dvb
These are the packages that I would merge, in order:
Calculating dependencies ...done!
[ebuild R ] media-tv/linuxtv-dvb-1.1.1-r1 0 kB
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after id doesn't work, i tried a new firmware from linuxtv.org but no success with this one.
| Quote: | till@till ~ $ ls -lisa /lib/firmware/
insgesamt 468
720929 4 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 3. Mär 05:03 .
720897 4 drwxr-xr-x 12 root root 4096 3. Mär 01:18 ..
720973 0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 20 3. Mär 05:03 dvb-ttpci-01.fw -> dvb-ttpci-01.fw-261d
720971 232 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 231952 3. Mär 05:02 dvb-ttpci-01.fw-261d
2834437 228 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 226376 3. Mär 03:57 dvb-ttpci-01.fw.old |
lspci -vv lists the card as unknown device but whenever i read some stuff like this in the forums, lspci says something like "Hauppauge Wintv blah ..." :
| Code: | 0000:01:08.0 Multimedia controller: Philips Semiconductors SAA7146 (rev 01)
Subsystem: Technotrend Systemtechnik GmbH: Unknown device 000e
Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B-
Status: Cap- 66Mhz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
Latency: 32 (3750ns min, 9500ns max)
Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 11
Region 0: Memory at ec004000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) |
i do not have any more ideas how to get this to work under linux 
any help is fairly appreciated
thanks, tilmann
Last edited by Kathars!s on Sun Mar 06, 2005 4:56 am; edited 1 time in total |
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BigBeer
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| Posted: Thu Mar 03, 2005 9:31 pm Post subject: |
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what about an "lsmod"??? Are the modules actually loading for the card?
Stuff in /dev/dvb will not be there unless the modules are correctly loaded.
Sidenotes --
Don't compile the firmware into the driver, the firmware changes often and you don't want to have to recompile now do you???
Make sure hotplug is set to allow for firmware loading!
You might want to switch back to devfs and use the CVS drivers from linuxtv, they install real painlessly with devfs!
Good Luck!
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Kathars!s
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| Posted: Fri Mar 04, 2005 3:23 am Post subject: |
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sorry, i was in a hurry when i posted this one, so i forgot about the lsmod. as i said, i added the dvb_ttpci to my modules.autoload.d. all other modules except snd_intel8x0, snd_ac97_codec, nvidia & agpgart are loaded as dependencies from dvb_ttpci.
| Code: | till@till ~ $ lsmod
Module Size Used by
snd_intel8x0 28992 1
snd_ac97_codec 74360 1 snd_intel8x0
dvb_ttpci 317608 0
dvb_core 76840 1 dvb_ttpci
saa7146_vv 46976 1 dvb_ttpci
video_buf 17156 1 saa7146_vv
saa7146 15268 2 dvb_ttpci,saa7146_vv
v4l1_compat 13828 1 saa7146_vv
v4l2_common 4992 1 saa7146_vv
videodev 7424 1 saa7146_vv
ves1820 5636 1 dvb_ttpci
stv0299 9988 1 dvb_ttpci
tda8083 6020 1 dvb_ttpci
stv0297 8832 1 dvb_ttpci
sp8870 7180 1 dvb_ttpci
ves1x93 6532 1 dvb_ttpci
ttpci_eeprom 2432 1 dvb_ttpci
nvidia 3463388 12
agpgart 28584 1 nvidia
till@till ~ $ |
i also did a "dmesg" but theres only 1 line concerning my dvb-card, it says
| Code: | till@till ~ $ dmesg | grep dvb
saa7146: register extension 'dvb'.
till@till ~ $ |
no error while loading the modules, no firmware error, nothing more
an adhesive label on the tuner says it's a "revision 2.3". i googled and only found information concerning 2.1 & 2.2 revisions of the Hauppauge WinTV Nexus-S.
is it possible that my 2.3 is not supported yet ?
| Quote: | | Stuff in /dev/dvb will not be there unless the modules are correctly loaded. |
heh, i forgot about the module listing but i'm not this kind of a newbie 
tilmann |
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Kathars!s
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| Posted: Fri Mar 04, 2005 4:08 am Post subject: |
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some additional information, i know for sure this card works. it was tested with my 'tied-to-windows'-brother's pc and he has got the same card. fine.
i tried to boot from a knoppmyth cd. it automatically loads the same modules and the device nodes are present. but then mythtv reports exactly the same error as i get on my gentoo ("could not open card #0" .... 1,2,3 ).
lspci displayed the same unknown-device-shit. so it also won't work, surprise :>
besides, it sux imo, had to start mysql and the mythbackend manually, of course it's not a livecd but the authors website says it's possible to launch the frontend from cd but it wasn't as simple as it could be ...
| Quote: | | Don't compile the firmware into the driver, the firmware changes often and you don't want to have to recompile now do you??? |
i thought the other way round, if i would be able to get a working configuration, a change in the firmware won't break it. i don't like the module-stuff for device-drivers that won't ever change. but if this is the only way, i'll also try this. might be better for testing purposes until it works |
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BigBeer
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| Posted: Fri Mar 04, 2005 3:51 pm Post subject: |
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| Kathars!s wrote: |
i thought the other way round, if i would be able to get a working configuration, a change in the firmware won't break it. i don't like the module-stuff for device-drivers that won't ever change. but if this is the only way, i'll also try this. might be better for testing purposes until it works |
What I am trying to say is :
CONFIG_DVB_AV7110_FIRMWARE=y
should be
CONFIG_DVB_AV7110_FIRMWARE=n
that way hotplug will load the firmware for you and you don't have to redo the module when you want to change the firmware.
If the modules load and the devices are present in /dev/dvb/adapter0 then the only reason you would not be able to open the device is because of the permissions on the device.
If you are trying to run myth as root then it will work reguardless, but if as another user you need to chmod/chown -R 770 your /dev/dvb/adapter* so that your user can use it.
Most of the tutorials for vdr/mythtv have a blurb about it.
As for setting up myth, most people recommend you start with vdr (becuase it is easy compared to myth) 1st and then migrate.
Can you use dvbscan as root to scan your bird with your card? |
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Kathars!s
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| Posted: Sat Mar 05, 2005 2:04 am Post subject: |
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i changed my .config to CONFIG_DVB_AV7110_FIRMWARE=n and compiled the new 2.6.11-gentoo-r2 (gentoo-dev-sources).
this does not affect the output of dmesg, lspci -vv, lsmod. still no device nodes. but now the firmware is loaded by hotplug.
| Quote: | If the modules load and the devices are present in /dev/dvb/adapter0 then the only reason you would not be able to open the device is because of the permissions on the device.
If you are trying to run myth as root then it will work reguardless, but if as another user you need to chmod/chown -R 770 your /dev/dvb/adapter* so that your user can use it.
Most of the tutorials for vdr/mythtv have a blurb about it.
As for setting up myth, most people recommend you start with vdr (becuase it is easy compared to myth) 1st and then migrate. |
i'm not 100% sure if you read my post completely. when i bootet from a knoppmyth cd (its a knoppix-style debian-based live-cd-distribution) i had the /dev/dvb/adapter0 ... 3 devices. but on knoppmyth, there is no user login. you're always root. but it didn't work. whatever, knoppmyth sux.
back on my gentoo-system, there are no device nodes present and there never wasn't any.
| Kathars!s wrote: | an adhesive label on the tuner says it's a "revision 2.3". i googled and only found information concerning 2.1 & 2.2 revisions of the Hauppauge WinTV Nexus-S.
is it possible that my 2.3 is not supported yet ? |
that's still the most important question for me, is it possible that there is no gnu/linux-support for this revision yet ?
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dalu
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| Posted: Thu Mar 10, 2005 1:06 am Post subject: |
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| bah , just great.. ok, who could i turn to , to help creating a driver for that 2.3 version? |
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