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itlarson
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 Posted: Sun Jan 13, 2008 3:12 am Post subject: inatalling pchdtv 5500 on gentoo |
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I am mystified as how to procede installing this card for gentoo. Info on the internet seems to be out of date or conflicting, and the product website doesn't provide any sort of step by step guide.
I am using a single core amd 64 computor with nvidia graphics running a custom 2.6.22 kernel. It is intended as a mythtv box.
My questions are:
-What to enable/disable in the kernel.
-how to install the drivers- I have downloaded v4l-dvb-HD-5500-driver.tar.gz and tried running make, but this ends quickly in an error message.
-what's this about firmware?
-What tools do I install? Do I just emerge them? how do I tell if the card is working?
-Once it is working, what is involved in intigrating the card with mythtv?
If anyone can answer this list of questions or point me to a step by step instalation guide which is up to date for my kernel and the 5500, It would be greatly apreciated. |
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bunder
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| Posted: Sun Jan 13, 2008 3:31 am Post subject: |
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while i can't get you going completely, here are a few pointers i can at least hand out...
| Code: | media-tv/linuxtv-dvb-firmware
Firmware files needed for operation of some dvb-devices |
you'll need to set DVB_CARDS= in your make.conf... i don't know the appropriate setting for your card however.
http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Setup_MythTV
that document is very informative about on how to get mythtv working on gentoo... there is a section on the side which goes further in-depth with your kernel configuration.
failing that, you can always try http://www.linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php/Main_Page (the dvb wiki) and perhaps http://mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/Main_Page (the mythtv wiki)
getting mythtv itself installed should be easy... "emerge -av mythtv" you'll probably want to say no, and verify all your USE flags are in order.
cheers, and i hope you get your system going. 
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tld
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| Posted: Sun Jan 13, 2008 6:42 am Post subject: |
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| bunder wrote: | while i can't get you going completely, here are a few pointers i can at least hand out...
| Code: | media-tv/linuxtv-dvb-firmware
Firmware files needed for operation of some dvb-devices |
you'll need to set DVB_CARDS= in your make.conf... i don't know the appropriate setting for your card however.
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I'm using three HD-5500 cards (for ATSC DTV only, no NTSC), and actually I have neither of those. I'm not actually sure what that firmware is for.
| itlarson wrote: |
-What to enable/disable in the kernel.
-how to install the drivers- I have downloaded v4l-dvb-HD-5500-driver.tar.gz and tried running make, but this ends quickly in an error message.
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Unless I'm missing something, I didn't think any of the drivers etc from pcHDTV were needed with newer kernels. I'm not using any of that...just the kernel's built in DVB stuff for the CX88. I'm on 2.6.23 now, but it was the same when I was on 2.6.22. I'll try to paste the pertinent parts of my kernel config:
Under Device Drivers -> Multimedia devices:
| Code: | <*> Video For Linux
[ ] Enable Video For Linux API 1 (DEPRECATED)
[*] Enable Video For Linux API 1 compatible Layer
[*] Video capture adapters --->
[ ] Radio Adapters --->
<M> DVB for Linux
[ ] Load and attach frontend modules as needed
[*] DVB/ATSC adapters --->
[ ] DAB adapters |
Looking at it carefully, I actually think the "[*] DVB/ATSC adapters --->" entry above may not be needed, as I have nothing selected in the menu under that.
Under the "Video capture adapters --->" above:
| Code: | [ ] Enable advanced debug functionality
[*] Autoselect pertinent encoders/decoders and other helper chips
< > Virtual Video Driver
< > SAA5246A, SAA5281 Teletext processor
< > SAA5249 Teletext processor
[ ] TEA 5761 radio tuner (EXPERIMENTAL)
< > Philips SAA7134 support
< > Hexium HV-PCI6 and Orion frame grabber
< > Hexium Gemini frame grabber
<M> Conexant 2388x (bt878 successor) support
< > Conexant 2388x DMA audio support
< > Blackbird MPEG encoder support (cx2388x + cx23416)
<M> DVB/ATSC Support for cx2388x based TV cards
< > VP-3054 Secondary I2C Bus Support
< > Marvell 88ALP01 (Cafe) CMOS Camera Controller support
[ ] V4L USB devices ---> |
...and I believe that's about it. In /etc/modules.autoload.d/kernel-2.6 I have the line:
...to autoload that.
I don't know offhand if there's more required for analog tuning etc, but for DTV I think that's about it. In mythtv I set the cards up as 'DVB' and not as HD-5500's, which is what I understood you're supposed to do when using the kernel DVB.
Those tuners have been great by the way. I love recording DTV. It takes a lot of disk, but since it records the mpeg2 exctly as it comes off the tuner, I can record three HD shows at once with the CPU at like 2% or less...awesome stuff.
Tom |
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tld
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| Posted: Sun Jan 13, 2008 6:50 am Post subject: |
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Looking at the wiki that blunder linked to, in the kernel page here:
http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Setup_Kernel/System_for_MythTV
...they show these enabled as well:
| Code: | < > Conexant 2388x DMA audio support
< > Blackbird MPEG encoder support (cx2388x + cx23416) |
...both of which aren't needed if, like me, you're only receiving DTV.
Good luck!
Tom |
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