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Re: 2.6.12-r2
PostPosted: Mon Apr 18, 2005 2:25 pm Reply with quote
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photonwave wrote:
Hello "Guest", I may be able to offer you some help.

Let me know if you have questions about gentoo and pcHDTV.

Don


Hello again, Well I got it to work using tvtime on the regular channels, now to start figuring out what else it can do.
Is this close to your dmesg output for your card ?

Linux video capture interface: v1.00
cx2388x v4l2 driver version 0.0.4 loaded
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:01:07.0[A] -> GSI 19 (level, low) -> IRQ 19
cx88[0]: subsystem: 7063:3000, board: pcHDTV HD3000 HDTV [card=22,autodetected]
cx88[0]/0: found at 0000:01:07.0, rev: 5, irq: 19, latency: 32, mmio: 0xf4000000cx88[0]/0: registered device video0 [v4l2]
cx88[0]/0: registered device vbi0
cx88[0]/0: registered device radio0
cx2388x blackbird driver version 0.0.4 loaded
cx2388x dvb driver version 0.0.4 loaded
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:01:07.2[A] -> GSI 19 (level, low) -> IRQ 19
cx88[0]/2: found at 0000:01:07.2, rev: 5, irq: 19, latency: 32, mmio: 0xf5000000cx88[0]/2: cx2388x based dvb card
DVB: registering new adapter (cx88[0]).
DVB: registering frontend 0 (pcHDTV HD3000 HDTV)...
tuner 0-0061: chip found @ 0xc2 (cx88[0])
tuner 0-0061: type set to 52 (Thomson DDT 7610 (ATSC/NTSC))
tda9885/6/7: chip found @ 0x86
Re: Newbie Question
PostPosted: Mon Apr 18, 2005 2:49 pm Reply with quote
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Hi Mike,

Can't help you with question 1 (I using a different flavor of Linux and I have the older HD-2000 card).

As far as question 2, I believe all you'll need are the tools from dvb-apps (available from the linuxtv.org CVS server) and perhasp dvbstream. In particular, the "azap" program will tune and give you signal strength, and there are several test programs that will allow you to record.

I like to use dvbstream to get the HD stream off of the card, and then I use mplayer to actually watch a channel (dvbstream is available from sourceforge.org, you'll have to download the code from their CVS tree as the last distribution package available didn't include the ATSC modifications necessary for tuning channels from OTA ATSC broadcasts here in the US).

Good luck,

Don S.

mnestroy wrote:

But anyways can you give me some pointers of what steps to do next?

1. What enteries need to be put in the modprobe.conf to get my HD-3000 to work?

2. Do I still need to compile any of the tools or drivers from the manufactures website?

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Re: 2.6.12-r2
PostPosted: Mon Apr 18, 2005 3:43 pm Reply with quote
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Hello,

My card is an HD-2000, so my output is somewhat different, but the important parts (as far as I know) are the registration of devices by DVB (bolded below in your output). Here are the relevant parts of my dmesg output:

Code:
DVB: registering new adapter (bttv0).
DVB: registering frontend 0 (Oren OR51211 VSB Frontend)..


If everything booted and initialized correctly, you should have the these devices:

Code:
bash-2.05b# ls -l /dev/dvb/adapter0/
total 0
crw-------  1 root root212, 4 Dec 31  1969 demux0
crw-------  1 root root212, 5 Dec 31  1969 dvr0
crw-------  1 root root212, 3 Dec 31  1969 frontend0
crw-------  1 root root212, 7 Dec 31  1969 net0



You should be able to use azap (or some other tool) to tune into an ATSC HD channel now. Apparently you "tune" using the frontend0 device and grab video output from the demux0 and dvr0 devices. I'm not sure what the net0 device is for.

Anonymous wrote:

Is this close to your dmesg output for your card ?

Linux video capture interface: v1.00
cx2388x v4l2 driver version 0.0.4 loaded
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:01:07.0[A] -> GSI 19 (level, low) -> IRQ 19
cx88[0]: subsystem: 7063:3000, board: pcHDTV HD3000 HDTV [card=22,autodetected]
cx88[0]/0: found at 0000:01:07.0, rev: 5, irq: 19, latency: 32, mmio: 0xf4000000cx88[0]/0: registered device video0 [v4l2]
cx88[0]/0: registered device vbi0
cx88[0]/0: registered device radio0
cx2388x blackbird driver version 0.0.4 loaded
cx2388x dvb driver version 0.0.4 loaded
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:01:07.2[A] -> GSI 19 (level, low) -> IRQ 19
cx88[0]/2: found at 0000:01:07.2, rev: 5, irq: 19, latency: 32, mmio: 0xf5000000cx88[0]/2: cx2388x based dvb card
DVB: registering new adapter (cx88[0]).
DVB: registering frontend 0 (pcHDTV HD3000 HDTV)...

tuner 0-0061: chip found @ 0xc2 (cx88[0])
tuner 0-0061: type set to 52 (Thomson DDT 7610 (ATSC/NTSC))
tda9885/6/7: chip found @ 0x86

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Kernel stil does not boot up
PostPosted: Tue Apr 19, 2005 8:21 am Reply with quote
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HDTV buff,

I rebuild the kernel with the new configuration file from http://freepages.iqsystems.net/~ikhan/linux/linux-2.6.12-rc2.config . as you recommended it. Unfortunately I have almost the same result kernel does not booy up with slightly different output:

Red Hat nash version 4.1.18 starting
insmod: error inserting ‘/lib/ide-disk.ko’: -1 Unknown symbol in module
ERROR: /bin/insmod exited abnormally!
umount /sys failed: 16
mount: error 6 mounting ext3
mount: error 2 mounting none
switchroot: mount failed 22
umount /initrd/dev failed 2
Kernel panic – not syncing: Attempted to kill init!

As I stated before I tried to verify, if my actions are correct, by rebuilding and booting the kernel 2.6.11 with no patches, in this case everything works with no problems.

Could you recommend me what else must be checked?

Thanks in advance,
AR
Re: Kernel stil does not boot up
PostPosted: Tue Apr 19, 2005 9:48 am Reply with quote
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AR wrote:


umount /initrd/dev failed 2
Kernel panic – not syncing: Attempted to kill init!



Check to see if you got a initrd file for the kernel in /boot directory. From the above messages, it looked like you do not have this file. To make it, check the man page for mkinitrd.
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The initrd file exists in /boot directory
PostPosted: Tue Apr 19, 2005 11:09 am Reply with quote
AR
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jcz,


Quote:
Check to see if you got a initrd file for the kernel in /boot directory. From the above messages, it looked like you do not have this file. To make it, check the man page for mkinitrd.


The initrd file exists in /boot directory, otherwise I would not be able to boot the rebuilt version of the kernel 2.6.11. I modified EXTRAVERSION variable, so kernel had a unique name and an old intitrd file could not be used. I hope, it proves that I am building the kernel correctly.
I posted my message only when I had filled than my own capabilities had been exhausted. Anyway I appreciate your help.
Regards,
AR
Re: Kernel stil does not boot up
PostPosted: Wed Apr 20, 2005 9:54 am Reply with quote
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AR wrote:
HDTV buff,

I rebuild the kernel with the new configuration file from http://freepages.iqsystems.net/~ikhan/linux/linux-2.6.12-rc2.config . as you recommended it. Unfortunately I have almost the same result kernel does not booy up with slightly different output:

As I stated before I tried to verify, if my actions are correct, by rebuilding and booting the kernel 2.6.11 with no patches, in this case everything works with no problems.

Could you recommend me what else must be checked?

Thanks in advance,
AR


AR,

Try using your .config file from your 2.6.11.

If it works with the .config file from 2.6.11, then the problem is my .config file. If it still does not work, then we is a missing step somewhere.

I use Debian unstable as my distribution. Therefore, any directions or help about any other distribution is somewhat of a guess on my part.

If you have a correct initrd file, then it should work. I can't think of anything else (in terms of compiling the kernel).

If all else fails, you may want to google for a pre-compiled 2.6.12-rc2 kernel. I am sure you can find it for your distribution.

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Firmware and other files corrupt??
PostPosted: Sat Apr 23, 2005 5:31 pm Reply with quote
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I'm having problems decompressing anything I download.
(Yes I have tried multiple machines, and multiple OSes, and multiple browsers)
Here is what I get under FC3:

# tar zxf firmware.tar.gz
tar: Skipping to next header

gzip: stdin: invalid compressed data--crc error

gzip: stdin: invalid compressed data--length error
tar: Child returned status 1
tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors

I'm guessing there is file server problems or the data is corrupt.
Any body got a mirror?
W00 H00!!
PostPosted: Mon Apr 25, 2005 10:49 am Reply with quote
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Thanks for all of your hard work. 2.6.12-rc2 will be the most anticipated kernel release of all time.

Being able to use the hd2000 and pvr 250 at the same time will be hugely important.
Cant get 2.6.12 to load correctly
PostPosted: Tue Apr 26, 2005 3:57 pm Reply with quote
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I followed your instructions and all seemed like it went well. I was able to amke the RPM and install it...

Unfrotunately it did not adjust the grub.. So I tried to do that manualy, heres what I did

# /sbin/mkinitrd /boot/initrd-2.6.12-rc2.img 2.6.12-rc2

No error, so I adjusted the grub to look like this:

title Fedora Core (2.6.12-rc2)
root (hd0,0)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.12-rc2 ro root=LABEL=/1 rhgb quiet
initrd /initrd-2.6.12-rc2.img


After restarting I get the following error

mkrootdev: label /1 not found
mount: error 2 mounting ext3
mount: error 2 mounting none
switchroot: mount failed:22
unmount /initro/dev failed 7
kernel panic - not syncing: attemped to kill init!


Any advise on how to get this Kernel installed with FC3 would be greately appericated, I'm dying to get my HD3000 card to work and I've tried the 2.0 drivers with no luck.

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Re: Cant get 2.6.12 to load correctly
PostPosted: Tue Apr 26, 2005 4:21 pm Reply with quote
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I'm getting same error messages. Even used root=/dev/hda2 which is my root directory. Also tried the 2.6.12-rc3 kernel, same issue.

I dont know if we have to run make udev to fix it. Most probably that may be required. But I'm just afraid that it may break something else and I cant boot anything (including the current FC3 kernel).

Also looking for help on same issue !

Thanks
Mudit

mnestroy wrote:
I followed your instructions and all seemed like it went well. I was able to amke the RPM and install it...

Unfrotunately it did not adjust the grub.. So I tried to do that manualy, heres what I did

# /sbin/mkinitrd /boot/initrd-2.6.12-rc2.img 2.6.12-rc2

No error, so I adjusted the grub to look like this:

title Fedora Core (2.6.12-rc2)
root (hd0,0)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.12-rc2 ro root=LABEL=/1 rhgb quiet
initrd /initrd-2.6.12-rc2.img


After restarting I get the following error

mkrootdev: label /1 not found
mount: error 2 mounting ext3
mount: error 2 mounting none
switchroot: mount failed:22
unmount /initro/dev failed 7
kernel panic - not syncing: attemped to kill init!


Any advise on how to get this Kernel installed with FC3 would be greately appericated, I'm dying to get my HD3000 card to work and I've tried the 2.0 drivers with no luck.
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Re: Cant get 2.6.12 to load correctly
PostPosted: Tue Apr 26, 2005 5:06 pm Reply with quote
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mnestroy wrote:
After restarting I get the following error

mkrootdev: label /1 not found
mount: error 2 mounting ext3
mount: error 2 mounting none
switchroot: mount failed:22
unmount /initro/dev failed 7
kernel panic - not syncing: attemped to kill init!


The problem is that you the following line is incorrect:
Code:
kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.12-rc2 ro root=LABEL=/1 rhgb quiet


Should this line be?
Code:
kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.12-rc2 ro root=LABEL=/ rhgb quiet


Your label is not matching. Try the following command to show the correct label for your boot partition:
Code:
cat /etc/fstab


Then make sure that the label matches. Also pay close attention to the grub lines. A typo will make it unbootable.

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Re: 2.6.12-r2 and pcHDTV 2000 - Success!!
PostPosted: Wed Apr 27, 2005 4:11 pm Reply with quote
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photonwave wrote:
Thank you HDTV buff!! Your last message gave me the clue I needed! I now have signal lock on my local HDTV broadcast channels using 2.6.12.-r2 with no extra mods.

Here's a quick HOWTO for pcHDTV 2000 and 2.6.12-r2 using Gentoo:

o Edit the /etc/make.conf and add "dvb" to the USE variable
o Select the following options when building the kernel (I used genkernel to make my kernel)
Code:
    -Drivers
         -Multimedia Devices
             <*> Video for Linux
                 -Video for Linux
                     <*> BT848 Video for Linux
                 -Digital Video Brodacasting Device
                     <*> DVB for Linux
                         <*> DVB Core Support
                     --Supported BT878 Adapters--
                         <*> Nebula/Pinnacle PCTV/Twinham PCI Cards
                     -- Customize DVB Frontends--



Does anyone know what the above should be for the pcHDTV-3000? I assume I should not choose any BT878 adapter. Do I need to choose something for the cx23883? Or is this somehow included already?

Also, do I need to choose anything for audio decoding? Anything else differently I might need in menuconfig? Thanks,

P-Sz
Re: 2.6.12-r2 and pcHDTV 2000 - Success!!
PostPosted: Wed Apr 27, 2005 5:32 pm Reply with quote
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Anonymous wrote:
Does anyone know what the above should be for the pcHDTV-3000? I assume I should not choose any BT878 adapter. Do I need to choose something for the cx23883? Or is this somehow included already?

Also, do I need to choose anything for audio decoding? Anything else differently I might need in menuconfig? Thanks,

P-Sz


Sure,

Just type this code (in your kernel source directory):
Code:
# grep OR51 .config
CONFIG_DVB_OR51132=m
CONFIG_DVB_OR51211=m


If you see both CONFIG_DVB_OR51132=m and CONFIG_DVB_OR51211=m then you configured it correctly. Otherwise you made a bad selection.

Please note that you cannot select these drivers directly. If you select video4linux and dvb correctly, then these drivers will be automatically compiled.

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Re: 2.6.12-r2 and pcHDTV 2000 - Success!!
PostPosted: Wed May 04, 2005 9:49 pm Reply with quote
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HDTV buff wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Does anyone know what the above should be for the pcHDTV-3000? I assume I should not choose any BT878 adapter. Do I need to choose something for the cx23883? Or is this somehow included already?

Also, do I need to choose anything for audio decoding? Anything else differently I might need in menuconfig? Thanks,

P-Sz


Sure,

Just type this code (in your kernel source directory):
Code:
# grep OR51 .config
CONFIG_DVB_OR51132=m
CONFIG_DVB_OR51211=m



does "=m" mean a modularized kernel driver? I have them =y:
Code:

CONFIG_DVB_OR51132=y
CONFIG_DVB_OR51211=y


Should I recompile the kernel with modularized DVB drivers, etc? Does anyone know of a good internet doc on the differences between modularized and built-in drivers when configuring the kernel? This confuses me. Thanks.
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