[linux-dvb] Re: Nova-T and DVB-C

[Andrew Wilson <agwilson@rhetorical.com>]

For the Nova-t, lr6650, kworld(?) and other dvb-t cards based on the 
conexant cx88, it's a little confusing:

These cards should work with the stock 2.6.9 kernel dvb drivers (ie you 
don't need to download dvb-kernel) - BUT you do need a patch to the 
video4linux subsystem to enable DVB on the cx88. Get this patch from 
bytesex.org and apply that.

One piece of advice: Enable "Automatic Kernel Module Loading" under 
loadable module support. You need to get a whole bag of modules going in 
order to use this thing, and it's much easier if you let the kernel 
figure out which ones it needs!

cheers
Andrew



Jörg Behr wrote:

> Hi,
>
> i have some trouble with my new Hauppauge WinTV Nova-T card and i hope 
> that you can give me some hints how to get the card working. Besides the 
> Nova-T i have a WinTV DVB-C card, which is doing fine in my computer.
>
> I was browsing in the archive of this mailinglist and i did the things, 
> that i found about the installation and configuration of the Nova-T. I 
> downloaded and configured a 2.6.9 vanilla kernel after i downloaded the 
> dvb-kernel from cvs. With "makelinks /usr/src/linux-2.6.9" the script 
> creates the corresponding links to the cvs source. Are the module 
> "budget" and the frontend "cx22700" the correct ones? However, after 
> loading "budget" and "cx22700" or "cs22702" nothing happens. Syslog says 
> just the following:
>
> Dec  1 23:39:10 sirius kernel: saa7146: register extension 'budget dvb'.
>
> But "saa7146" belongs to my DVB-C card? Is there a possible conflict 
> between both cards? If i load the modules of my working DVB-C card, i 
> get the following output and the card works very well:
>
> Dec  1 23:12:07 sirius kernel: saa7146: register extension 'dvb'.
> Dec  1 23:12:07 sirius kernel: PCI: Found IRQ 7 for device 0000:00:0b.0
> Dec  1 23:12:07 sirius kernel: saa7146: found saa7146 @ mem e88ec000 
> (revision 1, irq 7) (0x13c2,0x0002).
> Dec  1 23:12:07 sirius kernel: DVB: registering new adapter 
> (Technotrend/Hauppauge WinTV DVB-C rev2.X).
> Dec  1 23:12:07 sirius kernel: adapter has MAC addr = 00:d0:5c:20:6c:d4
> Dec  1 23:12:08 sirius kernel: dvb-ttpci: gpioirq unknown type=0 len=0
> Dec  1 23:12:08 sirius kernel: dvb-ttpci: info @ card 0: firm f0240009, 
> rtsl b0250018, vid 71010068, app 8000261c
> Dec  1 23:12:08 sirius kernel: dvb-ttpci: firmware @ card 0 supports CI 
> link layer interface
> Dec  1 23:12:08 sirius kernel: dvb-ttpci: Crystal audio DAC @ card 0 
> detected
> Dec  1 23:12:08 sirius kernel: saa7146_vv: saa7146 (0): registered 
> device video0 [v4l2]
> Dec  1 23:12:08 sirius kernel: DVB: registering frontend 0 (VLSI VES1820 
> DVB-C)...
> Dec  1 23:12:08 sirius kernel: dvb-ttpci: found av7110-0.
>
>
> Can you please tell me, what i am doing wrong or give me some small 
> hints? At the end of this mail there is the ?relevant? output of "lspci 
> -vv".
>
>
> Thank you and greetings,
>
> Jörg Behr
>
>
>
>
> ------------------------
> #lspci -vv
>
> 0000:00:0b.0 Multimedia controller: Philips Semiconductors SAA7146 (rev 01)
>         Subsystem: Technotrend Systemtechnik GmbH Technotrend/Hauppauge 
> DVB card rev2.1
>         Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster- SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- 
> ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B-
>         Status: Cap- 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- 
> <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
>         Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 7
>         Region 0: Memory at e2002000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=512]
>
> 0000:00:0c.0 Multimedia video controller: Conexant Winfast TV2000 XP 
> (rev 05)
>         Subsystem: Hauppauge computer works Inc.: Unknown device 9002
>         Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- 
> ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B-
>         Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- 
> <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
>         Latency: 32 (5000ns min, 13750ns max), Cache Line Size: 0x08 (32 
> bytes)
>         Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 12
>         Region 0: Memory at df000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16M]
>         Capabilities: [44] Vital Product Data
>         Capabilities: [4c] Power Management version 2
>                 Flags: PMEClk- DSI+ D1- D2- AuxCurrent=0mA 
> PME(D0-,D1-,D2-,D3hot-,D3cold-)
>                 Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME-
>
> 0000:00:0c.2 Multimedia controller: Conexant: Unknown device 8802 (rev 05)
>         Subsystem: Hauppauge computer works Inc.: Unknown device 9002
>         Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- 
> ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B-
>         Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- 
> <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
>         Latency: 32 (1500ns min, 22000ns max), Cache Line Size: 0x08 (32 
> bytes)
>         Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 12
>         Region 0: Memory at e0000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16M]
>         Capabilities: [4c] Power Management version 2
>                 Flags: PMEClk- DSI+ D1- D2- AuxCurrent=0mA 
> PME(D0-,D1-,D2-,D3hot-,D3cold-)
>                 Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME-
>
> 0000:00:0c.4 Multimedia controller: Conexant: Unknown device 8804 (rev 05)
>         Subsystem: Hauppauge computer works Inc.: Unknown device 9002
>         Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- 
> ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B-
>         Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- 
> <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
>         Latency: 32 (1500ns min, 63750ns max), Cache Line Size: 0x08 (32 
> bytes)
>         Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 12
>         Region 0: Memory at e1000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16M]
>         Capabilities: [4c] Power Management version 2
>                 Flags: PMEClk- DSI+ D1- D2- AuxCurrent=0mA 
> PME(D0-,D1-,D2-,D3hot-,D3cold-)
>                 Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME-