Hello all, I have just installed Hauppauge WinTV PVR 350 on my AMD 3400+ 64bit PC. See: http://www.hauppauge.com/pages/products/data_pvr350.html
This machine is AMD 3400+ 64bit but I currently run 32bit operating systems on it (due to development and other issues). It has a tripple-boot-meny between Ubuntu Linux 5.10, Fedora Core-4 and Windows XP. All OSes are 32 bits. ----------------------------------------------------------- S Y M P T O M S A R E: *** In Ubuntu 5.10 (32 bit) Same diagnosis in Fedora-Core-4 (32 bit): I run scantv and select 1: PAL and 5: Europe-west. I live in Oslo/Norway/North Europe. $ scantv invalid value for input: television valid choices for "input": "Composite 0", "Composite 1", "Composite 2", "Composite 3", "Tuner 0", "Composite 4", "S-Video 0", "S-Video 1", "S-Video 2", "S-Video 3" Crash!"#ยค --- I must run it like this: $ scantv -C /dev/vbi0 and it performs a scanning. ------- Running xawtv $ xawtv No picture, just a black screen. Pressing Z (channel hopping) does nothing at all. See: http://www.futuredesktop.org/tmp/ivtv/xawtv_screenshot1.png ------------------------------------- *** In Windows XP Home (same machine): - WinTV2000 program can scan all channels (PAL, West-Europe). - I select a channel but the (tv)window stays black. I resize the window or click on the 'full screen' button and suddenly it shows a quite clear freezed tv-picture. No movement thou, sole one freezed picture frame. Picture disappears if I change channel. ============================= K O N F I G U R A T I O N 0) I have tested the TV-cable several times with a normal TV-box and Pinnacle PCTV card for Windows XP (USB2 model) works fine on this same machine. So the TV-outlet should be 100% OK. But in this house we (need to) use 99.99% of time Linux so... 1) PC hardware: CPU: AMD 3400+ 64 bit RAM: 1GB Graphics card: NVidia GeForce Have also tried with: ATI Radeon 9800 graphics card. Other details: $ sudo lshw -html > lshw.html See: http://www.futuredesktop.org/tmp/ivtv/lshw.html -------------------------------------------------------- 1) This Linux system $ uname -a Linux 062249179162 2.6.12-10-686 #1 Thu Dec 22 11:55:07 UTC 2005 i686 GNU/Linux --- $ cat /etc/*release* DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu DISTRIB_RELEASE=5.10 DISTRIB_CODENAME=breezy DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu (The Breezy Badger Release)" -------------------------------------------------------- 2) I have installed the ivtv-driver by following this guide http://ivtvdriver.org/index.php/Howto See: http://www.futuredesktop.org/tmp/ivtv/make_ivtv-0.4.1.txt -------------------------------------------------------- 3) Firmware was installed like this http://ivtvdriver.org/index.php/Firmware#Firmware_Checksums $ wget -c ftp://ftp.shspvr.com/download/wintv-pvr_150-500/inf/pvr_2.0.24.23035.zip $ unzip pvr_2.0.24.23035.zip $ sudo cp HcwMakoA.ROM /lib/modules/ $ wget ftp://ftp.shspvr.com/download/wintv-pvr_250-350/inf/pvr_1.18.21.22301_inf.zip $ cd ~/tmp/ivtv/ivtv-0.4.1 $ sudo utils/ivtvfwextract.pl ~/tmp/ivtv/firmware/pvr_1.18.21.22301_inf.zip --- New names in ivtv-0.4.1: $ sudo cp /lib/modules/ivtv-fw-enc.bin /lib/modules/v4l-cx2341x-enc.fw $ sudo cp /lib/modules/ivtv-fw-dec.bin /lib/modules/v4l-cx2341x-dec.fw $ sudo cp /lib/modules/HcwMakoA.ROM /lib/modules/v4l-cx25840.fw The result is: $ ls -l /lib/modules drwxr-xr-x 6 root root 504 2005-12-25 11:31 2.6.12-10-686 -r--r--r-- 1 root root 14264 2005-12-25 11:42 HcwMakoA.ROM -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 262144 2005-12-25 11:44 ivtv-fw-dec.bin -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 262144 2005-12-25 11:44 ivtv-fw-enc.bin -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 262144 2005-12-25 11:47 v4l-cx2341x-dec.fw -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 262144 2005-12-25 11:47 v4l-cx2341x-enc.fw -r--r--r-- 1 root root 14264 2005-12-25 11:48 v4l-cx25840.fw --- Maybe the right place is '/lib/hotplug/firmware' because /etc/hotplug/firmware.agent says: -- # directories with the firmware files FIRMWARE_DIRS="/lib/hotplug/firmware /usr/local/lib/hotplug/firmware /usr/lib/hotplug/firmware" -- Anyway, /lib/modules seemz to be default location (according to dmesg.txt). -------------------------------------------------------- 4) Load ivtv module $ sudo modprobe -r ivtv $ sudo modprobe -v ivtv insmod /lib/modules/2.6.12-10-686/kernel/drivers/media/video/videodev.ko insmod /lib/modules/2.6.12-10-686/kernel/drivers/i2c/algos/i2c-algo-bit.ko insmod /lib/modules/2.6.12-10-686/kernel/drivers/base/firmware_class.ko insmod /lib/modules/2.6.12-10-686/kernel/drivers/media/video/ivtv.ko -------------------------------------------------------- V A R I O U S DE T A I L S: 5.1) /var/log/messages (dmesg) See: http://www.futuredesktop.org/tmp/ivtv/dmesg.txt ---- 5.2) lspci See: http://www.futuredesktop.org/tmp/ivtv/lspci.txt ---- 5.3) lsmod See: http://www.futuredesktop.org/tmp/ivtv/lsmod.txt ---- 5.4) /etc/modutils/ivtv file (note: this is Ubuntu = Debian distro ) See: http://www.futuredesktop.org/tmp/ivtv/modutils.txt ----------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------- I've been back into my local datastore and they tested this Hauppauge 350 card on their Windows XP and it worked well. They gave me new Windows drivers... but for no help. They've been helpfull and sincere. Maybe I should run 64bit Linux (not 32bit) on this 64 bit machine? Any comments, TIA. --- Merry xmas and happy new year ;-) Cheers moma http://www.futuredesktop.org/how2burn.html#Ubuntu _______________________________________________ ivtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://ivtvdriver.org/mailman/listinfo/ivtv-users
