[linux-dvb] FusionHDTV7 RT Gold

[linux-dvb] FusionHDTV7 RT Gold

[William Melgaard]

I have a DViCO FusionHDTV7 RT Gold PCI card in my posession. To date, I cannot make it work with my AMD64 Debian (stable) box. This card is not to be confused with the Dual Express or the USB cards

I am getting mixed answers to request for support.
I have been told that the card is supported. I downloaded the latest Mercurial, and installed it. As far as I can tell, the FusionHDTV7 RT Gold is NOT supported by the latest Mercurial. If it is, please provide configuration instructions.

If the RT Gold is not yet supported, what can I do to aid in providing support? I have some c programming skills, but have never dealt with a driver.

William Melgaard
Virginia 23666, USA

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Re: [linux-dvb] FusionHDTV7 RT Gold

[Mark Paulus]

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William Melgaard wrote:
> I have a DViCO FusionHDTV7 RT Gold PCI card in my posession. To date, I cannot make it work with my AMD64 Debian (stable) box. This card is not to be confused with the Dual Express or the USB cards
> 
> I am getting mixed answers to request for support.
> I have been told that the card is supported. I downloaded the latest Mercurial, and installed it. As far as I can tell, the FusionHDTV7 RT Gold is NOT supported by the latest Mercurial. If it is, please provide configuration instructions.
> 
> If the RT Gold is not yet supported, what can I do to aid in providing support? I have some c programming skills, but have never dealt with a driver.
> 
> William Melgaard
> Virginia 23666, USA
> 

When you say, "I cannot make it work", what exactly do you mean?

Could you do some simple diagnostics, and send the output
to the list:

uname -a

lspci -v

the output of dmesg, starting immediately
after the Hard Disk discovery statements.

lsmod

Have you tried to scan any multiplexes, and what kind 
of results are you seeing?

How is the card wired up, physically?

What other kind of diagnostics have you done to verify
that the card is not functional? (Have you tried it in a 
MicroShaft Winblows machine to make sure the card itself
is functional?)

It's hard to diagnose problems without some more info
as to what might be wrong...

I have a DViCO FusionHDTV5 Lite in my AMD64 Stable box,
along with several other cards (PVR-150, 
Avermedia A180 QAM, Air2PC SkyStar2 ATSC).  I am 
running a 2.6.24 kernel from etch-and-half, but all 
my cards are functional, and play together well.

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Re: [linux-dvb] FusionHDTV7 RT Gold

[CityK]

William Melgaard wrote:
> I have a DViCO FusionHDTV7 RT Gold PCI card in my posession. To date, I cannot make it work with my AMD64 Debian (stable) box. This card is not to be confused with the Dual Express or the USB cards
>
> I am getting mixed answers to request for support.
> I have been told that the card is supported. I downloaded the latest Mercurial, and installed it. As far as I can tell, the FusionHDTV7 RT Gold is NOT supported by the latest Mercurial. If it is, please provide configuration instructions.
>
> If the RT Gold is not yet supported, what can I do to aid in providing support? I have some c programming skills, but have never dealt with a driver.
>   
see: http://marc.info/?l=linux-dvb&m=120165779828786&w=2

I don't know if Steve submitted the drivers or not ... they may reside
in one of his development repositories

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Re: [linux-dvb] FusionHDTV7 RT Gold

[Michael Krufky]

On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 9:24 PM, CityK <cityk@rogers.com> wrote:
> William Melgaard wrote:
>> I have a DViCO FusionHDTV7 RT Gold PCI card in my posession. To date, I cannot make it work with my AMD64 Debian (stable) box. This card is not to be confused with the Dual Express or the USB cards
>>
>> I am getting mixed answers to request for support.
>> I have been told that the card is supported. I downloaded the latest Mercurial, and installed it. As far as I can tell, the FusionHDTV7 RT Gold is NOT supported by the latest Mercurial. If it is, please provide configuration instructions.
>>
>> If the RT Gold is not yet supported, what can I do to aid in providing support? I have some c programming skills, but have never dealt with a driver.
>>
> see: http://marc.info/?l=linux-dvb&m=120165779828786&w=2
>
> I don't know if Steve submitted the drivers or not ... they may reside
> in one of his development repositories
>

I added analog support for this card on Feb 25 of this year.  Digital
support was merged shortly thereafter.

Most likely, you are simply missing the firmware.  If you check your
kernel logs, it is more than likely that this will be mentioned there.

You can fetch the firmware from http://steventoth.net/linux/xc5000

-Mike

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Re: [linux-dvb] FusionHDTV7 RT Gold

[CityK]

Michael Krufky wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 9:24 PM, CityK <cityk@rogers.com> wrote:
>   
> I added analog support for this card on Feb 25 of this year.  Digital
> support was merged shortly thereafter.
>
> ...  If you check your
> kernel logs, it is more than likely that this will be mentioned there.

Ahh, very good.  Didn't see anything on the kernel submit logs, but did
indeed find both of the above mentioned on the maintainer list

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Re: [linux-dvb] FusionHDTV7 RT Gold

[Michael Krufky]

On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 6:20 PM, CityK <cityk@rogers.com> wrote:
> Michael Krufky wrote:
>> On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 9:24 PM, CityK <cityk@rogers.com> wrote:
>>
>> I added analog support for this card on Feb 25 of this year.  Digital
>> support was merged shortly thereafter.
>>
>> ...  If you check your
>> kernel logs, it is more than likely that this will be mentioned there.
>
> Ahh, very good.  Didn't see anything on the kernel submit logs, but did
> indeed find both of the above mentioned on the maintainer list
>

You misquoted me.

I was talking about the firmware problem.......

"Most likely, you are simply missing the firmware.  If you check your
kernel logs, it is more than likely that this will be mentioned there."

-Mike

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Re: [linux-dvb] FusionHDTV7 RT Gold

[CityK]

Michael Krufky wrote:
> You misquoted me.
>
> I was talking about the firmware problem.......
>
> "Most likely, you are simply missing the firmware.  If you check your
> kernel logs, it is more than likely that this will be mentioned there."
>
> -Mike

Ahh, very good!

I thought it had been a case of the reference to the submits having
become fragmented in the message.

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Re: [linux-dvb] FusionHDTV7 RT Gold

[Michael Krufky]

On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 9:39 AM, William Melgaard
<piobair@mindspring.com> wrote:
> -----Original Message-----
>>From: Michael Krufky <mkrufky@linuxtv.org>
>>Sent: Nov 13, 2008 6:24 PM
>>To: CityK <cityk@rogers.com>
>>Cc: linux-dvb@linuxtv.org
>>Subject: Re: [linux-dvb] FusionHDTV7 RT Gold
>>
>>On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 6:20 PM, CityK <cityk@rogers.com> wrote:
>>> Michael Krufky wrote:
>>>> On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 9:24 PM, CityK <cityk@rogers.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> I added analog support for this card on Feb 25 of this year.  Digital
>>>> support was merged shortly thereafter.
>>>>
>>>> ...  If you check your
>>>> kernel logs, it is more than likely that this will be mentioned there.
>>>
>>> Ahh, very good.  Didn't see anything on the kernel submit logs, but did
>>> indeed find both of the above mentioned on the maintainer list
>>>
>>
>>You misquoted me.
>>
>>I was talking about the firmware problem.......
>>
>>"Most likely, you are simply missing the firmware.  If you check your
>>kernel logs, it is more than likely that this will be mentioned there."
>>
>>-Mike
>>
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>
> I downloaded the firmware file & extracted it.
> There was no folder "/lib/firmware/2.6.18-6-amd64", so I created one.
> I copied the extracted firmware file into both /lib/firmware and /lib/firmware/2.6.18-6-amd64
> The tuner is not recognized:
> Nov 14 09:22:58 localhost kernel: cx2388x v4l2 driver version 0.0.6 loaded
> Nov 14 09:22:58 localhost kernel: ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKB] enabled at IRQ 9
> Nov 14 09:22:58 localhost kernel: ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:02:07.0[A] -> Link [LNKB] -> GSI 9 (level, low) -> IRQ 9
> Nov 14 09:22:58 localhost kernel: cx88[0]: Your board isn't known (yet) to the driver.  You can
> Nov 14 09:22:58 localhost kernel: cx88[0]: try to pick one of the existing card configs via
> Nov 14 09:22:58 localhost kernel: cx88[0]: card=<n> insmod option.  Updating to the latest
> Nov 14 09:22:58 localhost kernel: cx88[0]: version might help as well.
> Nov 14 09:22:58 localhost kernel: cx88[0]: Here is a list of valid choices for the card=<n> insmod option:
> Nov 14 09:22:58 localhost kernel: cx88[0]:    card=0 -> UNKNOWN/GENERIC
[...]
> Nov 14 09:22:58 localhost kernel: cx88[0]:    card=52 -> Geniatech DVB-S
> Nov 14 09:22:58 localhost kernel: CORE cx88[0]: subsystem: 18ac:d610, board: UNKNOWN/GENERIC [card=0,autodetected]
> Nov 14 09:22:58 localhost kernel: TV tuner -1 at 0x1fe, Radio tuner -1 at 0x1fe
> Nov 14 09:22:58 localhost kernel: cx2388x alsa driver version 0.0.6 loaded
> Nov 14 09:22:58 localhost kernel: cx2388x dvb driver version 0.0.6 loaded
> Nov 14 09:22:58 localhost kernel: cx88[0]/0: found at 0000:02:07.0, rev: 5, irq: 9, latency: 64, mmio: 0xfb000000
> Nov 14 09:22:58 localhost kernel: ts: Compaq touchscreen protocol output
> Nov 14 09:22:58 localhost kernel: tuner 2-006b: chip found @ 0xd6 (cx88[0])
> Nov 14 09:22:58 localhost kernel: tuner 2-006f: chip found @ 0xde (cx88[0])
> Nov 14 09:22:58 localhost kernel: cx88[0]/0: registered device video0 [v4l2]
> Nov 14 09:22:58 localhost kernel: cx88[0]/0: registered device vbi0
> Nov 14 09:22:58 localhost kernel: tuner 2-006b: tuner type not set
> Nov 14 09:22:58 localhost kernel: ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:02:07.1[A] -> Link [LNKB] -> GSI 9 (level, low) -> IRQ 9
> Nov 14 09:22:58 localhost kernel: cx88[0]/1: CX88x/0: ALSA support for cx2388x boards
> Nov 14 09:22:58 localhost kernel: ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LAUI] enabled at IRQ 11
> Nov 14 09:22:58 localhost kernel: ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:06.0[A] -> Link [LAUI] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ 11
> Nov 14 09:22:58 localhost kernel: PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:06.0 to 64
> Nov 14 09:22:58 localhost kernel: cx2388x blackbird driver version 0.0.6 loaded

Upgrade to the newer modules on linuxtv.org.

Follow the instructions here:

http://linuxtv.org/repo

...and please don't drop cc to the mailing list -- I usually ignore
private tech-support emails.


-Mike

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