From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: Received: from mx3.redhat.com (mx3.redhat.com [172.16.48.32]) by int-mx1.corp.redhat.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id m4QKATfk032689 for ; Mon, 26 May 2008 16:10:29 -0400 Received: from jade.aracnet.com (jade.aracnet.com [216.99.193.136]) by mx3.redhat.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m4QK9jhO018931 for ; Mon, 26 May 2008 16:09:46 -0400 Received: from sandbox.nvr.com (216-99-218-74.dsl.aracnet.com [216.99.218.74]) (authenticated bits=0) by jade.aracnet.com (8.13.6/8.12.8) with ESMTP id m4QK9i6r017922 for ; Mon, 26 May 2008 13:09:44 -0700 Message-ID: <483B1908.7000609@nvr.com> Date: Mon, 26 May 2008 13:09:44 -0700 From: Todd Brunhoff MIME-Version: 1.0 To: video4linux-list@redhat.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: [resend] XC5000 firmware for Pinnacle 800i List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: video4linux-list-bounces@redhat.com Errors-To: video4linux-list-bounces@redhat.com List-ID: Recently I installed mythtv on fedora core 8 using yum for most of the packages and v4l for the dvb support (v4l-dvb-fee5c2458384.tar.gz). I have the Pinnacle 800i, and the drivers for the cx88 installed correctly, and the firmware from http://www.steventoth.net/linux/xc5000 always loaded. The problem was that nothing could detect any atsc reception, including myth setup and dvb-atsc-tools-1.0.7. After eliminating the antenna, cable, configuration, and rebooting many times, I finally humbled myself and booted up XP and installed the drivers that came with the card. Atsc reception worked. So then going back to linux, I find that myth setup detected all the channels, and everything works! Keep in mind that I have little experience with myth or v4l or the drivers, so take this with a grain of salt... in my experience (elsewhere) this suggests a couple of explanations: * the windows drivers installed the firmware correctly (making it work). At the very least, it had some positive influence. * the board logic retains a firmware installation and is smart enough to detect an invalid firmware update (which makes it work under linux in spite of bad firmware being loaded or loaded incorrectly). * If the firmware is bad, this could be the shell script (which extracts the firmware by dd'ing it out of the middle of a .sys file) doesn't get quite the right bytes). This seems unlikely since it probably worked for the author. * It could be that the firmware is the wrong version for the 800i (the readme that comes with the firmware says that it is the official Haupauge WHQL driver). * It also could be possible that the linux firmare is correct, but that the windows driver did some other operation to the board (like updating other firmware), that then allows the linux driver firmware load to work correctly. It would be nice is one of you could shed some light on this, although for me this problem is solved. Perhaps this may help others get past the same very irritating brick wall with the 800i. Todd -- video4linux-list mailing list Unsubscribe mailto:video4linux-list-request@redhat.com?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/video4linux-list