Re: Hauppauge HVR-1500 (aka HP RM436AA#ABA)

[Steven Toth <stoth@linuxtv.org>]

Ben Heggy wrote:
> I'm having the same issues (recognized - but won't turn on) with the same card
> and would be delighted to join the open discussion and to try to help to provide
> any information necessary to debug this issue. 
> 
> To this point, I have enabled debug options on what I think are the related
> modules and have seen nothing that appears to be an error, but am also noticing
> that there should be some messages about loading firmware for the various chips
> and they don't appear (I did put the firmware files in /lib/firmware but I
> cannot find references to their correct md5sums to verify they are correct)
> 
> I'm a newbie to linux, but was once (20 years ago) a system manager on a
> vax/unix system, so I can find my way around a bit better than average.
> 
> Tell me what info you want to see or what actions to try and I will gladly act
> immediately.

Connect the card.

Cold boot the system, boot linux, use the dmesg command.

Do you see any evidence of the cx23885 driver recognizing your card?

Use the lspci -vn command to display attached PCI(e) devices, is the card present?

- Steve