Re: [linux-dvb] Is HP rebranded Hauppauge HVR-1500 ok on 64bit versions of stable distributions?

[Matthew Gardeski <garmat@gmail.com>]

On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 10:33, Benster & Jeremy <pghben@yahoo.com> wrote:
> I have the hp expresscard version of the hauppauge VHR-1500 tuner. I am
> having problems getting it to operate under the latest 64bit versions of
> ubuntu and  suse.
>
> Has anyone had one of these combinations working?
>
> I've looked back over the archive on this list and found several threads,
> but being a recent convert to linux, I couldn't recognize if  I needed to
> download and recompile modules more recent than those shipped with 2.6.27
> kernels. Nor did I know how to tell if the people that had it working were
> running 32 or 64 bit versions.
>
> I'm wondering if this may only be an issue with 64 bit, only because I've
> had a few things that took some work to get going that were related to using
> 64bit.
>
> Any suggestions as to what to look for or where to go for help?
>
> Looking at dmesg, the card is recognized, the firmware is in /lib/firmware,
> but no messages indicating it is being shipped to the card.
>
> When I try to scan for channels with either metv or w_scan, it goes through
> the motions, but finds no channels. The light on the card does not come on.
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Ben (pghben@yahoo.com)
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I have just finished setting up an HVR-1500q and mythtv on gentoo
amd64.  I am happy to report that this setup works great with ATSC
channels.  Although it is loading the firmware properly when mythtv
tries to tune a channel, I don't see anything come up in dmesg either.
 I get warnings in dmesg on boot, but that doesn't really mean it's
failing.

I have been able to tune into ATSC channels with the drivers from
http://linuxtv.org/hg/v4l-dvb for the past few months with i386.
Before that, I would get very similar messages in dmesg to what I do
now, but mythtv could not scan or tune any channels.

If you have any more questions about what I had to do to get this
working, I'd be glad to answer them.

By the way, is there any support for the analog mode or s-video input?

[    9.455353] cx23885 driver version 0.0.2 loaded
[    9.455403] cx23885 0000:06:00.0: enabling device (0000 -> 0002)
[    9.455411] cx23885 0000:06:00.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 18 (level, low) -> IRQ 18
[    9.455535] CORE cx23885[0]: subsystem: 0070:7790, board: Hauppauge
WinTV-HVR1500Q [card=5,autodetected]
[    9.584355] tveeprom 1-0050: Encountered bad packet header [ff].
Corrupt or not a Hauppauge eeprom.
[    9.584361] cx23885[0]: warning: unknown hauppauge model #0
[    9.584363] cx23885[0]: hauppauge eeprom: model=0
[    9.584365] cx23885_dvb_register() allocating 1 frontend(s)
[    9.584379] cx23885[0]: cx23885 based dvb card
[    9.954789] xc5000 2-0061: creating new instance
[    9.955463] xc5000: Successfully identified at address 0x61
[    9.955464] xc5000: Firmware has not been loaded previously
[    9.955467] DVB: registering new adapter (cx23885[0])
[    9.955470] DVB: registering adapter 0 frontend 0 (Samsung S5H1409
QAM/8VSB Frontend)...
[    9.955722] cx23885_dev_checkrevision() Hardware revision = 0xb0
[    9.955730] cx23885[0]/0: found at 0000:06:00.0, rev: 2, irq: 18,
latency: 0, mmio: 0xf4000000
[    9.955752] cx23885 0000:06:00.0: setting latency timer to 64


Matt