My Last Major Linux Glitch the TV Tuner Card

[ack0329]

Ok dont look any further for the feint hearted, I have been trying to solve this with the help of pretty knowledgeable guys for over a month spanning over a year, and I just got close in the last 24 hours but still no luck.

All right I just scanned again with my little funky antennae and got my third ATSC channel and my first non=interupted audio but not a hint of video and not a hint of success with cable (NTSC)

Deep breath .... too much to tell but the basics
- HP Digital Analog Tuner Card
- also called Hauppaauge WinTV HVR1500
- Driver cx23885, also xc5000 driver
- using Kaffeine with the limited ATSC success
- tried MeTV, MoTV, TV Time, XAWTV ...
- and generally they only pick up my webcam (video0)
- scanning /usr/share/dvb/atsc/us-NTSC-center-frequencies-8VSB
- using '/dev/dvb/adapter0/frontend0' and
'/dev/dvb/adapter0/demux0'
- results in WARNING: >>> tuning failed!

- dmesg shows
[66931.953676] cx23885 0000:04:00.0: PCI INT A disabled
[66931.957323] xc5000 1-0061: destroying instance
[66931.971699] cx23885 driver version 0.0.2 loaded
[66931.972608] cx23885 0000:04:00.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 17 (level, low) -> IRQ 17
[66931.972798] CORE cx23885[0]: subsystem: 0070:7797, board: Hauppauge WinTV-HVR1500Q [card=5,autodetected]
[66932.101264] tveeprom 0-0050: Hauppauge model 77041, rev E2F0, serial# 3746385
[66932.101278] tveeprom 0-0050: MAC address is 00-0D-FE-39-2A-51
[66932.101284] tveeprom 0-0050: tuner model is Xceive XC5000 (idx 150, type 76)
[66932.101291] tveeprom 0-0050: TV standards NTSC(M) ATSC/DVB Digital (eeprom 0x88)
[66932.101298] tveeprom 0-0050: audio processor is CX23885 (idx 39)
[66932.101304] tveeprom 0-0050: decoder processor is CX23885 (idx 33)
[66932.101310] tveeprom 0-0050: has no radio
[66932.101315] cx23885[0]: hauppauge eeprom: model=77041
[66932.101322] cx23885_dvb_register() allocating 1 frontend(s)
[66932.101329] cx23885[0]: cx23885 based dvb card
[66932.133670] xc5000 1-0061: creating new instance
[66932.134548] xc5000: Successfully identified at address 0x61
[66932.134555] xc5000: Firmware has not been loaded previously
[66932.134562] DVB: registering new adapter (cx23885[0])
[66932.134569] DVB: registering adapter 0 frontend 0 (Samsung S5H1409 QAM/8VSB Frontend)...
[66932.134945] cx23885_dev_checkrevision() Hardware revision = 0xb0
[66932.134960] cx23885[0]/0: found at 0000:04:00.0, rev: 2, irq: 17, latency: 0, mmio: 0xf6000000
[66932.134976] cx23885 0000:04:00.0: setting latency timer to 64
[66932.134982] IRQ 17/cx23885[0]: IRQF_DISABLED is not guaranteed on shared IRQs
[67350.045297] SFW2-OUT-ERROR IN= OUT=wlan0 SRC=192.168.1.64 DST=94.111.183.237 LEN=40 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=64 ID=0 DF PROTO=TCP SPT=55669 DPT=53378 WINDOW=0 RES=0x00 RST URGP=0
[67431.073432] cx23885 0000:04:00.0: PCI INT A disabled
[67431.080401] xc5000 1-0061: destroying instance
[67431.093534] cx23885 driver version 0.0.2 loaded
[67431.097136] cx23885 0000:04:00.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 17 (level, low) -> IRQ 17
[67431.097741] CORE cx23885[0]: subsystem: 0070:7797, board: Hauppauge WinTV-HVR1500Q [card=5,autodetected]
[67431.232054] tveeprom 0-0050: Hauppauge model 77041, rev E2F0, serial# 3746385
[67431.232067] tveeprom 0-0050: MAC address is 00-0D-FE-39-2A-51
[67431.232074] tveeprom 0-0050: tuner model is Xceive XC5000 (idx 150, type 76)
[67431.232081] tveeprom 0-0050: TV standards NTSC(M) ATSC/DVB Digital (eeprom 0x88)
[67431.232088] tveeprom 0-0050: audio processor is CX23885 (idx 39)
[67431.232094] tveeprom 0-0050: decoder processor is CX23885 (idx 33)
[67431.232100] tveeprom 0-0050: has no radio
[67431.232105] cx23885[0]: hauppauge eeprom: model=77041
[67431.232112] cx23885_dvb_register() allocating 1 frontend(s)
[67431.232119] cx23885[0]: cx23885 based dvb card
[67431.271344] xc5000 1-0061: creating new instance
[67431.272194] xc5000: Successfully identified at address 0x61
[67431.272201] xc5000: Firmware has not been loaded previously
[67431.272209] DVB: registering new adapter (cx23885[0])
[67431.272216] DVB: registering adapter 0 frontend 0 (Samsung S5H1409 QAM/8VSB Frontend)...
[67431.272636] cx23885_dev_checkrevision() Hardware revision = 0xb0
[67431.272652] cx23885[0]/0: found at 0000:04:00.0, rev: 2, irq: 17, latency: 0, mmio: 0xf6000000
[67431.272669] cx23885 0000:04:00.0: setting latency timer to 64

....and COOOL I haven't seen this before...
[67712.583986] xc5000: waiting for firmware upload (dvb-fe-xc5000-1.6.114.fw)...
[67712.584004] cx23885 0000:04:00.0: firmware: requesting dvb-fe-xc5000-1.6.114.fw
[67712.607699] xc5000: firmware read 12401 bytes.
[67712.607703] xc5000: firmware uploading...

and thats all for now, any help would be much appreciated, and I am a relative newbie to SUSE and Loving IT!

[ack0329]

Anybody have ant ideas, superthanks if so.

[ack0329]

Kaffeine was half of my problem and it is now fixed, with at least my funky antennae picking up a single channel and playing a program ..... the first thing that hardware has ever picked up in 13 months of linux, now for cable!!!!!!!!!!!!

and Here was nmy Kaffeine fix,
Arghhhhh, not too straight forward from my point of view but here is what DID and DIDNT work, for those with similar problems:

DIDN'T
- changing everything over to packman from yast2 (though Yast2 seems way better than Yast to me)
- zypper removing all the items from the install list, then removing the videoLan repository, than zypper installing them again
- individually checking each one to make sure it was from the packman repository, or
- removing Kaffeine and installing it from the Packman website with the one-click

What DID work !!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ,
was after all of this removing Kaffeine again and installing the KDE version from Packman and even that was convoluted,...
- first click on
PackMan :: Package details for kaffeine,
then click on the kde version ....
http://packman.links2linux.org/downl....20.x86_64.rpm,
and after a first run it complained of xine-lib missing and I had to go to the packman website to search and install it...from here..
http://packman.links2linux.org/install/xine-lib
halelui it works and even with my TV Card's Antennae,

My Newbie overview opinion says it needed to be the KDE version even for a Gnome desktop (and Suse should know that, arghh), as well as I bet that the videoLan repo being enabled was causing problems when I should have only had OSS, non-OSS, update, and packman repositories enabled (strange rule for a noobie), no cross pollinating huh, hahaha

now just to figure out how to get it to work with my analog cable!!!! any help here would be great, please refer to ...
My Last Major Linux Glitch the TV Tuner Card - openSUSE Forums

[ack0329]

just to reiterate,

now just to figure out how to get it to work with my analog cable!!!! any help here would be great!

Thanks in advance!

[malcolmlewis]

just to reiterate,

now just to figure out how to get it to work with my analog cable!!!!
any help here would be great!

Thanks in advance!

Hi
You would need to scan from the files in /usr/share/dvd/dvb-c/ else I
guess find one for your area if it doesn't exist there. I only use FTA
with the atsc directory.

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openSUSE 11.2 (i586) Kernel 2.6.31.8-0.1-desktop
up 0:32, 2 users, load average: 0.18, 0.48, 0.43
ASUS eeePC 1000HE ATOM N280 1.66GHz | GPU Mobile 945GM/GMS/GME

[ack0329]

thanks for the response, but it is very unclear what to do from my newbie perspective. Could you elaborate, please.

What I did do was....
- look in /usr/share/dvb/dvb-c, and there was not any file with a ca name (for Canada), and if there was I wouldn't know what to do with it.
- opened Kaffeine > DVB > Channels, and don't see any way to scan a file, even if I had one for Canada

help is appreciated

can I use w_scan in some way (I have seen it somewhere in my search), and if so what command and how do I get Kaffeine to use it? AND

is there any multimedia player that is better (more slick) than Kaffeine?

[malcolmlewis]

thanks for the response, but it is very unclear what to do from my
newbie perspective. Could you elaborate, please.

What I did do was....
- look in /usr/share/dvb/dvb-c, and there was not any file with a ca
name (for Canada), and if there was I wouldn't know what to do with it.
- opened Kaffeine > DVB > Channels, and don't see any way to scan a
file, even if I had one for Canada

help is appreciated

can I use w_scan in some way (I have seen it somewhere in my search),
and if so what command and how do I get Kaffeine to use it? AND

is there any multimedia player that is better (more slick) than
Kaffeine?

Hi
You will need to search for a Canada file to scan from, maybe linux-dvd
site? Then it would be;

scan <your_scan_file>  -o zap | tee ~/channels.conf

That would put the scan into channels.conf for you to move/rename as
required by the dvb application.

Kmplayer maybe? It's just the front end to Mplayer. For mplayer run it
once to create a ~/.mplayer directory, then copy the channels.conf
file into the directory.

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openSUSE 11.2 (i586) Kernel 2.6.31.8-0.1-desktop
up 1:18, 2 users, load average: 0.07, 0.09, 0.09
ASUS eeePC 1000HE ATOM N280 1.66GHz | GPU Mobile 945GM/GMS/GME

[ack0329]

Sorrry for my ignorance but I am stuck at the point of finding a Canada file to scan from...
from the "You will need to search for a Canada file to scan from",

this is new to me and I have tried google the linux-tv website for half an hour with no luck,, any suggestions where I might find an appropriate Canada channels file??

[malcolmlewis]

Sorrry for my ignorance but I am stuck at the point of finding a Canada
file to scan from...
from the "You will need to search for a Canada file to scan from",

this is new to me and I have tried google the linux-tv website for half
an hour with no luck,, any suggestions where I might find an appropriate
Canada channels file??

Hi
Hopefully this should get you started..
http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Adding_Di..._USA/Canada%29

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Cheers Malcolm ��� (Linux Counter #276890)
openSUSE 11.2 (i586) Kernel 2.6.31.8-0.1-desktop
up 2:55, 2 users, load average: 0.24, 0.16, 0.10
ASUS eeePC 1000HE ATOM N280 1.66GHz | GPU Mobile 945GM/GMS/GME

[ack0329]

and any idea why I can't find kmplayer in Yast or through:
zypper install kmplayer,
and remember I am using Gnome,
I even found a download for it but it told me to cmake it and ran with errors
CMake Error at /usr/share/cmake/Modules/FindKDE4.cmake:84 (MESSAGE):
ERROR: cmake/modules/FindKDE4Internal.cmake not found in
/home/ack/.kde4/share/apps;/usr/share/kde4/apps
Call Stack (most recent call first):
CMakeLists.txt:10 (find_package)

this is getting tiring, phewwwww
and thanks