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Mossi
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 Posted: Sun May 01, 2005 8:11 pm Post subject: how to start configuring a TV card (Hauppauge WinTv) |
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after most things in my new gentoo system are running, I will now start to configure my TV card. I'm not sure if this card is supported and I have no idea how to figure this out.
lspci shows following two entries:
| Code: | 0000:00:06.0 Multimedia video controller: Conexant CX23880/1/2/3 PCI Video and Audio Decoder (rev 05)
0000:00:06.1 Multimedia controller: Conexant: Unknown device 8811 (rev 05) |
I think this is my TV-Card.
And now... How to start?  Is there a Howto for this? Or can anybody explain how to configure.
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mens
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| Posted: Sun May 01, 2005 8:43 pm Post subject: |
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Check /usr/src/linux/Documentation/video4linux/
If your card is supported (most hauppage cards are) it should show up in one of the CARDLIST files. Compile the necessary modules in the kernel and specify the appropriate module options for your card (again: see CARDLIST) in /etc/modules.d/aliases and run modules-update.
I hope this will get you started |
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Mossi
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| Posted: Sun May 01, 2005 10:05 pm Post subject: |
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Sorry, I have no idea how to start. I checkd the CARDLIST-files but there is no info to me.
the entry for card80 in CARDLIST.bttv looks bettest to me, but which modules depends on this entry?
what I have done until now:
Kernel:
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[M] --> Video for Linux
Video for Linux
--> [M] Conexant 2388x (bt878 successor) support
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That's all |
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Fredde
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| Posted: Mon May 02, 2005 12:14 pm Post subject: |
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You are on the right path, you need a couple of modules loaded to make it work:
i2c-core
i2c-algo-bit
videodev
and the module for your chip (2388x)
compile them as modules in the kernel, reboot with your new kernel and load them with modprobe in the above order.
Then try to get some picture with mplayer (remember to compile it with USE flag v4l and v4l2):
mplayer tv://{channel} -tv driver=v4l2 -vo xv -ao alsa
channel: some channel depending on your tv supplier, xv: if you use X, alsa: if you use alsa |
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jspeybro
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| Posted: Tue May 03, 2005 11:57 pm Post subject: |
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I used tvtime and xawtv to watch channels. Start it from a terminal to see errormessages.
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