Gainward Hollywood@Home Entertainmentcard

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As topic, i have this card
anyone knows if it's supported by the kernel and/or v4l2?

thanks
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found finally the specs:

* LSI Logic DVxplore MPEG-2 encoder
* Philips SAA7174 (PAL)
* Microtune MT2050
* Philips TDA9885/6

as i can see the only driver i miss is the SAA7174HL

anyone knows?
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Hi,

have you made this card working? Today I bought the same one, but don't know which drivers to use (except rivatv for the saa7174hl).

edit:
Now I use these modules
saa7174hl from rivatv (cvs) for the TV decoder
tda9887 as the tuner (it also supports the tda9885 chip)
bttv tuner=33 (though I don't know why I need it - don't think it's right to use it)

my modules list is:
Module Size Used by
saa7174hl 12896 0
i2c_dev 7104 0
tda9887 14096 0
msp3400 28464 0
tvaudio 20316 0
tuner 38564 0
video_buf 15684 0
firmware_class 7360 0
i2c_algo_bit 8008 0
v4l2_common 4800 0
btcx_risc 3784 0
tveeprom 12880 0
i2c_core 15376 8 saa7174hl,i2c_dev,tda9887,msp3400,tvaudio,tuner,i2c_algo_bit,tveeprom
videodev 6848 0

I have /dev/video[0123] but cat /dev/video[0123] doesn't work (no such device).
There's no debug dmesg output about the modules I load so I don't know why it's not working (though I use modprobe rivatv debug=2, modprobe saa7174hl debug=2).

May ivtv for the Hauppauge PVR cards work? They are quite similar to my card.
I don't really understand what module makes /dev/video* ? Can someone please explain me?

thanx,
Michael

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Hi,

I tryed and tryed and tryed but I cannot get this card working....here's what I did.

lspci -vvv reports:
01:06.0 Multimedia controller: C-Cube Microsystems E4? (rev b1)
Subsystem: nVidia Corporation Unknown device 01e1
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 (4000ns min, 250ns max), Cache Line Size 08
Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 12
Region 0: Memory at da000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=16M]
Capabilities: [60] Power Management version 1
Flags: PMEClk- DSI- D1- D2- AuxCurrent=0mA PME(D0-,D1-,D2-,D3hot-,D3cold-)
Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME-

* I don't think I need a driver for the mpeg2 encoder, do I?
* For the SAA7174hl I use the kernel module from rivatv-cvs-2006-02-04 (or 2006-04-02 don't know...I mean the 4th of february in 2006).
* the Microtune MT2050 is supported by the bttv module, but I don't thin I should use it because I use saa7174hl. I guess bttv.ko and saa7174hl.ko are doing the same job????
* The Phillips tda9885 is supported by the tda9887.ko module which comes with the vanilla-kernel-2.6.15.1 (which I use)

Knowing all this I load the modules saa7174hl, rivatv, tda9887 and bttv (which I maybe should not???)
modprobe saa7174 debug=2
modprobe tda9887
modprobe rivatv debug=2
modprobe bttv tuner=33

But there are no debug messages in dmesg besides:
bttv: driver version 0.9.16 loaded
bttv: using 8 buffers with 2080k (520 pages) each for capture
rivatv: Video4Linux driver for NVIDIA cards
rivatv: MMX processor extension enabled

* there's no rivatv in /proc (cd /proc; find -iname "*riva*")
* there are /dev/video[0123] but "cat /dev/video*" always reports "No such device".
* I don't know where /dev/video* come from (from which module).

What does this mean? Is my card not supported?

Thank you! Michael