[linux-dvb] Re: Nova-T 9002 problems

[Linsey Giles <lgiles@giles-it.com>]

On Sat, 2004-11-20 at 17:19, Linsey Giles wrote:
> Hi Guys, 
> 
> I think I'm almost there with my Nova-T 9002 - I can get the front end
> driver loaded (according to dmesg) - and I can run scan and get a
> sensible output from it.  What I don't seem to be able to do is get any
> pictures from the damn thing !
> 
> If I try catting /dev/dvb/adapter0/dvr0 out to a file I don't get any
> data at all.  What's even worse is if I use something like dvbstream to
> try and get the data to play into mplayer (for example dvbstream -c 0
> -ps 600 601 | mplayer -) it seems to lock the machine up completly.
> (mplayer will quite happily play a DVD though).
> 
> I can use tzap to tune ok, which is what is confusing me.
> 
> The machine I've got is using an nVidia chipset for the screen (it's a
> shuttle machine), a linksys USB wireless lan (using the ndiswrapper
> 0.12rc1).
> 
> I've got kernel 2.6.10-rc1 with the v4l patches.  A snippet from the
> output from dmesg is attached (if you need more please just shout).
> 
> I've also attached output from lsmod and ls -lR /dev/dvb*
> 
> I guess this is what is stopping mythtv working properly at the moment
> (at least it's the first step in getting it all working again !).
> 
> Any help would be most appreciated - I don't think I'm far off getting
> it working.
> 
> Cheers

Just to add some more information - I've got it loading pretty much all
the modules (I had a feeling last night that I might be missing some).

dvbstream has stopped locking the machine so that's a good start - but
things are still a little strange.  Using the dvbtraffic and test_dvr I
get data (and it looks ok - starts 0x47 from test_dvr) so the card
appears to be worknig - but I still don't seem to be able to get any
pictures out of it - mythtv reports that it cannot tune the card.

I've rebuilt myth (just in case), and still nothing.

One nagging feeling in the back of my mind - I don't believe I'm loading
any firmware for this as I don't think there is any ? am I correct in
that ???


dmesg now reports the following which is looking more promising.

Can anyone point me in the right direction - people seem to have this
working !

Cheers


Linsey

Linux video capture interface: v1.00
cx2388x v4l2 driver version 0.0.4 loaded
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:01:06.0[A] -> GSI 18 (level, high) -> IRQ 18
cx88[0]: subsystem: 0070:9002, board: Hauppauge Nova-T DVB-T
[card=18,autodetected]
cx88[0]: hauppauge eeprom: model=90002, tuner=Thomson DTT 7592 (76)
cx88[0]/0: found at 0000:01:06.0, rev: 5, irq: 18, latency: 32, mmio:
0xe0000000
cx88[0]/0: registered device video0 [v4l2]
cx88[0]/0: registered device vbi0
cx2388x blackbird driver version 0.0.4 loaded
cx2388x dvb driver version 0.0.4 loaded
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:01:06.2[A] -> GSI 18 (level, high) -> IRQ 18
cx88[0]/2: found at 0000:01:06.2, rev: 5, irq: 18, latency: 32, mmio:
0xe1000000
cx88[0]/2: cx2388x based dvb card
DVB: registering new adapter (cx88[0]).
DVB: registering frontend 0 (cx22702 demod)...


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Linsey Giles <lgiles@giles-it.com>