On Monday 14 January 2008 04:45:54 Anthony Cipolone wrote:
> Someone posted this morning (I just joined the list, otherwise I
> would reply!) and I had nearly the exact same results:
>
> I'm running this on KnoppMyth R5F27, which uses the 2.6.18 kernel. I
> had to patch as per here this post:
> http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/ivtv/devel/37190#37190 in order
> to get it to build.
>
> After "make" and "make install" and copying the firmware (from
> http://ivtvdriver.org/index.php/Cx18) I had to completely power down
> -- a soft reboot gave a bunch of errors eeprom and i2c errors. "make
> unload" gave some errors, probably due to MythTV running.
>
> >From dmesg | grep cx18:
>
> cx18: Start initialization, version 0.1.0
> cx18-0: Initializing card #0
> cx18-0: Autodetected Hauppauge card
> cx18-0: cx23418 revision 01010000 (B)
> tuner' 2-0061: chip found @ 0xc2 (cx18 i2c driver #0-1)
> cx18-0: Autodetected Hauppauge HVR-1600
> cs5345 1-004c: chip found @ 0x98 (cx18 i2c driver #0-0)
> cx18-0: Disabled encoder IDX device
> cx18-0: Registered device video0 for encoder MPEG (2 MB)
> cx18-0: Registered device video16 for TS (2 MB)
> cx18-0: Registered device video32 for encoder YUV (2 MB)
> cx18-0: Registered device vbi0 for encoder VBI (1 MB)
> cx18-0: Registered device video24 for encoder PCM audio (1 MB)
> cx18-0: Initialized card #0: Hauppauge HVR-1600
> cx18: End initialization
> cx18-0: loaded v4l-cx23418-apu.fw firmware V00120000 (141200 bytes)
> cx18-0: loaded v4l-cx23418-cpu.fw firmware (174716 bytes)
> cx18-0: debug: 1 MiniMe Encoder Firmware 0.0.71.0 (Release
> 2006/12/29) cx18-0: FW version: 0.0.71.0 (Release 2006/12/29)
> cx18-0: Took ~20 mS for FW to start
> cx18-0: loaded v4l-cx23418-dig.fw firmware (16382 bytes)
>
> After running either "cat /dev/video0 > test.mpg" this appears in
> dmesg:
>
> cx18-0: Unknown cmd 9b
> cx18-0: Unknown cmd 9f
> cx18-0: Unknown cmd a1
> cx18-0: Unknown cmd 9d
This can be ignored. I still need to handle these commands, but they are
not important.
>
> Much the same as posted earlier this morning. The only difference is
> in "lspci -v". I get:
>
> 02:0a.0 Multimedia video controller: Conexant Unknown device 5b7a
> Subsystem: Hauppauge computer works Inc. Unknown device 7444
> Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 11
> Memory at f4000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64M]
> Capabilities: [44] Vital Product Data
> Capabilities: [4c] Power Management version 2
>
> Showing "Unknown device 5b7a" instead of "Conexant CX23418
> Single-Chip MPEG-2".
I think it is missing in the lspci database, not relevant to the driver.
> tveeprom in dmesg shows:
>
> tveeprom 1-0050: Hauppauge model 74041, rev C5B2, serial# 2883873
>
> Running "mplayer /dev/video0" shows video just fine (however,
> unrelated to this list, MythTV shows a black screen then backs out to
> the menu).
>
> I know there was some questions about the 74041s, but it seems to
> work okay here ... sorta.
I think I've sorted the last init problems this weekend.
> Thanks for all the work being done on this card! I received it as a
> gift and was going to return it since there's no stable drivers, but
> thought that helping to test it would probably help those stable
> drivers come out sooner. If there's any other information I can
> provide, let me know!
The important bit here is that the card initializes properly. That was
blocking me from refining other parts of the driver. But I think I
cracked that this weekend.
Regards,
Hans
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