User:Ggeller
From MythTV Book
The (physical book) "Practical MythTV" was available at the local library -- that's how I got started with this. I also heard a talk by Cecil H. Watson, the KnoppMyth project leader, at SCALE a couple of years ago.
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My Setup
Hardware
Antec Aria Case
Intel Desktop Board D865GVHZ
Pentium IV 2.4 GHz
1G RAM
200G IDE Hard Disk
DVD R/W
Hauppauge WinTV-HVR 1600
Card purchased from newegg.com 11/20/2009
WinTV-HVR-1600
ATSC/QAM
NTSC/FM
74541 LF
2909 MAC 000DFE608466
Software
I started out by installing Linuxmint 7. The I added some software with:
apt-get update apt-get install emacs update-manager-core
I installed the mythtv packages using the synaptic package manager, see User:ggeller/packages
Testing
Following along with Verifying_Your_HardwareBeta, the interesting parts of dmesg are:
where the remote control is detected:
[ 9.082620] lirc_dev: IR Remote Control driver registered, major 61 [ 9.086424] [ 9.086428] lirc_mceusb2: Philips eHome USB IR Transceiver and Microsoft MCE 2005 Remote Control driver for LIRC $Revision: 1.44 $ [ 9.086432] lirc_mceusb2: Daniel Melander <lirc@rajidae.se>, Martin Blatter <martin_a_blatter@yahoo.com>
and where the capture care is detected:
[ 9.791133] Linux video capture interface: v2.00 [ 9.886825] cx18: Start initialization, version 1.0.1 [ 9.887027] cx18-0: Initializing card #0 [ 9.887032] cx18-0: Autodetected Hauppauge card [ 9.898025] cx18 0000:01:01.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 22 (level, low) -> IRQ 22 [ 9.898039] cx18-0: Unreasonably low latency timer, setting to 64 (was 32) [ 9.901963] cx18-0: cx23418 revision 01010000 (B) [ 10.007985] ppdev: user-space parallel port driver [ 10.058148] Intel ICH 0000:00:1f.5: PCI INT B -> GSI 17 (level, low) -> IRQ 17 [ 10.058236] Intel ICH 0000:00:1f.5: setting latency timer to 64 [ 10.159479] tveeprom 0-0050: Hauppauge model 74541, rev C6B6, serial# 6325350 [ 10.159485] tveeprom 0-0050: MAC address is 00-0D-FE-60-84-66 [ 10.159488] tveeprom 0-0050: tuner model is Philips FM1236 MK5 (idx 116, type 43) [ 10.159492] tveeprom 0-0050: TV standards NTSC(M) (eeprom 0x08) [ 10.159495] tveeprom 0-0050: audio processor is CX23418 (idx 38) [ 10.159498] tveeprom 0-0050: decoder processor is CX23418 (idx 31) [ 10.159500] tveeprom 0-0050: has radio [ 10.159503] cx18-0: Autodetected Hauppauge HVR-1600 [ 10.159506] cx18-0: VBI is not yet supported [ 10.171589] psmouse serio1: ID: 10 00 64<6>tuner 1-0043: chip found @ 0x86 (cx18 i2c driver #0-1) [ 10.338904] tda9887 1-0043: creating new instance [ 10.338909] tda9887 1-0043: tda988[5/6/7] found [ 10.340328] tuner 1-0061: chip found @ 0xc2 (cx18 i2c driver #0-1) [ 10.340396] cs5345 0-004c: chip found @ 0x98 (cx18 i2c driver #0-0) [ 10.354642] tuner-simple 1-0061: creating new instance [ 10.354648] tuner-simple 1-0061: type set to 43 (Philips NTSC MK3 (FM1236MK3 or FM1236/F)) [ 10.356929] cx18-0: Disabled encoder IDX device [ 10.357084] cx18-0: Registered device video0 for encoder MPEG (2 MB) [ 10.357089] DVB: registering new adapter (cx18) [ 10.380439] intel8x0_measure_ac97_clock: measured 54515 usecs [ 10.380444] intel8x0: clocking to 48000 [ 10.446472] MXL5005S: Attached at address 0x63 [ 10.446479] DVB: registering adapter 0 frontend 0 (Samsung S5H1409 QAM/8VSB Frontend)... [ 10.446680] cx18-0: DVB Frontend registered [ 10.446751] cx18-0: Registered device video32 for encoder YUV (2 MB) [ 10.446815] cx18-0: Registered device video24 for encoder PCM audio (1 MB) [ 10.446915] cx18-0: Registered device radio0 for encoder radio [ 10.446919] cx18-0: Initialized card #0: Hauppauge HVR-1600 [ 10.446975] cx18: End initialization
Then I'm sort of stuck. Verifying_Your_HardwareBeta talks about IVTV.
Does IVTV work? Should it work?
http://ivtvdriver.org/index.php/Supported_hardware says:
- Hauppauge WinTV HVR1500/1600 (CX23418 based) (there is a beta cx23418 driver here) is known not to work
But http://ivtvdriver.org/index.php?title=Supported_hardware&action=history shows that the last revision to the page was make on 22:49, 12 August 2008
So maybe it will work?
$ sudo modprobe ivtv
doesn't generate any error message on the console, but
$ dmesg | grep ivtv [ 15.450454] ivtv: Start initialization, version 1.4.0 [ 15.450518] ivtv: End initialization
So it didn't work.
Head off to http://ivtvdriver.org/index.php/Cx18 and get the source for the beta driver from http://linuxtv.org/hg/v4l-dvb/archive/tip.tar.bz2
building the driver module thingie:
ggeller@mckinley ~/Desktop $ uname -r 2.6.28-11-generic ggeller@mckinley ~/Desktop $ sudo apt-get install gcc linux-source-2.6.28 linux-headers-2.6.28-11 ... ggeller@mckinley ~/Desktop $ sudo -i mckinley ~ # cd /usr/src/ mckinley src # tar xvf linux-source-2.6.28.tar.bz2 mckinley src # ln -s linux-source-2.6.28 linux mckinley src # ln -s /usr/src/linux /lib/modules/2.6.28-11-generic/build
We are building a module to be into the current kernel. I edited /usr/src/linux/Makefile so that it looks like this:
VERSION = 2 PATCHLEVEL = 6 SUBLEVEL = 28 EXTRAVERSION = -11-generic NAME = Erotic Pickled Herring
Deal with the configuration file:
mckinley src # cp /boot/config-2.6.28-11-generic /usr/src/linux/.config mckinley src # cd /usr/src/linux mckinley src # make oldconfig ... mckinley linux # make prepare0 ... mckinley linux # make scripts ... (I got a few warnings. I think we can safely ignore them.)
Build the kernel module (not as root)
ggeller@mckinley ~ $ cd /home/ggeller/Desktop/ivtvdriver.org/ ggeller@mckinley ~/Desktop/ivtvdriver.org $ ggeller@mckinley ~/Desktop/ivtvdriver.org $ tar xjf tip.tar.bz2 ggeller@mckinley ~/Desktop/ivtvdriver.org $ cd v4l-dvb-9d4c603b28c9/ ggeller@mckinley ~/Desktop/ivtvdriver.org/v4l-dvb-9d4c603b28c9 $ make ... (It takes a a 15 minutes or so to build the module)
Hmm... I don't see how to apply the instructions from Verifying_Your_HardwareBeta. Maybe I need to just skip ahead to the backend setup or something.
following the instructions from http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Hauppauge_HVR-1600
wget http://dl.ivtvdriver.org/ivtv/firmware/cx18-firmware.tar.gz worked
v4l-cx23418-apu.fw v4l-cx23418-dig.fw v4l-cx23418-cpu.fw match the ones already in /lib/firmware
see also
George hosts a wiki dedicated to keeping computers running at wsms.wikiplanet.com
http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Hauppauge_HVR-1600 has more specifics about the 1600.
