On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 4:41 PM, Mike Isely <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, 23 Oct 2009, Michael Krufky wrote: > >> On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 2:51 PM, Ken Bass <[email protected]> wrote: >> > I just recently bought a WinTV-HVR-1950. I went the USB route thinking it >> > would be simple plug and play, so far a real PITA. I'm running Fedora 11. >> > The label on the box bottom says 75111 LF, Rev C3E9 >> > > > [...] > >> > >> > So I am unsure from the logs if the v4l-cx2341x-enc.fw was ever loaded. >> > However, a cat /dev/video0 > test.ts 'works' at that point (including >> > audio). >> > >> > I also tried the current standalone driver (pvrusb2: 20091011 (from >> > www.isely.net):Hauppauge WinTV-PVR-USB2 MPEG2 Encoder/Tuner) with the same >> > result. >> >> You should smack yourself upside the head, for rebuilding a distro >> kernel and complaining about a known problem that was already resolved >> instead of googling about the problem and simply downloading the >> updated driver. F11 is known to be buggy, I can't explain why Fedora >> themselves haven't yet absorbed the fix. >> >> Meanwhile, for best results, use the following driver repository -- >> the bug is fixed here, along with additional tuning performance >> improvements: >> >> http://kernellabs.com/hg/kernellabs >> >> For instructions on how to use mercurial to install the drivers, see >> the instructions here, but use the above repository that I pointed to: >> >> http://linuxtv.org/repo >> >> Of course, you can use Mike Isely's standalone pvrusb2 driver, but it >> does not install the updated tuner / demodulator components. I >> recommend the kernellabs tree. > > Mike: > > The problem he's describing looks a lot like the FX2 firmware is not > correct. That has nothing to do with tuner / demod components. Ken > e-mailed me directly 2 days ago with other issues involving firmware > extraction - I just hadn't replied yet (I did a few minutes ago > however). There are a number of avenues to chase to get that FX2 > firmware straightened out. I will followup on this later tonight once I > have the right pieces in front of me to help.
Mike, Are you sure this isn't the "dont disconnect from usb" problem that you fixed a few months ago? -Mike _______________________________________________ pvrusb2 mailing list [email protected] http://www.isely.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pvrusb2
