Kernel options to enable Hauppage HVR 1200 dvb-t [Solved]

[bjdacre]

Gentlepeople,

I have been wanting to rebuild my media servers for some time and finally took the plunge with one to see how I would go (as part of my project to move all my computers to Gentoo).

The server ran Ubuntu 12.04 text (console) based headless server with mythtv v0.25. It was obviously a dedicated backend. This is what I am trying to re-create (not the versions) with Gentoo. Of course, it needs enough X server(?) to be able to ssh mythtv-setup (X based) on a computer with a graphical (X) interface.

This is where I have got to;

Installed a base Gentoo (profile 1).
Installed mythtv.
Enabled every dvb device I can find in the kernel config. (The HVR 1200 has supposedly been in the kernel since v2.6 and was my working dvb-t tuner in the aforementioned Ubuntu setup.)

The only tuner I can get working is a cheap usb ITE tuner which is my portable tuner I take travelling with me. When I say working, it is recognised by the kernel, creates a frontend, and I can get w_scan to create a channel list. I haven't actually tuned it and displayed a stream.

The HVR 1200 is not even recognised by the kernel, although lspci identifies it correctly. I am not surprised because there was no kernel option which looked like it would enable a driver to be built for it.

I booted to a live Ubuntu 14.04 and it just worked and I was able to w_scan the channels. I copied the kernel config file from the live cd and manually added what looked like the "missing" configuration options to my own config. Of course this didn't work because I guess the source for the drivers is not included in the Gentoo kernel sources and make menuconfig just filtered them out... (I assume).

Anyway, I have spent more than a day on this and have done lots of searching. I now give up trying to fix it on my own and am asking, how do you get this card working in Gentoo?

Brendan

[chithanh]

Check the output of "lspci -k" (kernel driver in use) for the device. If necessary, compare to what the same command on Ubuntu says.

Also note that you may need to install firmware for the card.

[bjdacre]

Hi chithanh,

Thanks for your reply.

[chithanh]

In menuconfig, you can press / to search for CX23885 and it will show you the dependencies and whether they are already enabled or not.

[bjdacre]

Thank you.

After scrolling horizontally to the end of the dependencies, I discovered RC_CORE [=n]. So even though I have no remote control, I enabled remote control support and Robert's your uncle, there it was, cx23885 support.

Compiled my new kernel and just did a successful channel scan.

I think we can mark this as solved. Not sure how to do that.

Brendan

[chithanh]

To do that, edit the first post and insert [solved] into the subject.

[bjdacre]

Done.

And thanks again for your help.

Brendan