On Sun, 2009-04-12 at 10:17 -0600, Ronal B Morse wrote: > I haven't seen any similar reports in the archives, but my Hauppauge > HVR1600 does not produce usable output with mplayer or VLC in Ubuntu > Linux (9.04 beta/2.6.28-11 amd64) until after I have used the card in a > Windows XP session with Hauppague's WinTV software. > > Booting straight to Linux from a power off state results in a black > screen and no audio from both players. ivti-tune and v4l2-ctl > set--frequency both produce normal output and indicate the card has been > set to the proper channel/frequency (3/61.125) > > DMSG and the kernel logs appear to be nominal. I don't see any obvious > errors. > > lsmod indicates all of the required modules are loaded. > > The only anomaly I see is that v4l2-ctl --all indicates signal strength > is 0, which is consistent with what I see from mplayer. > > If I command a system restart and boot into Windows XP, or boot directly > into XP from a power off condition, the card works fine with the > Hauppauge WinTV software. After I do that, I can command a system > restart and boot into Linux and the card then works as expected. > v4l2-ctl --all indicates signal strength of 100%. > > It seems that Ubuntu isn't initializing something on startup, but once > whatever it is gets set it persists through a warm reboot. > > I'm really trying to avoid XP as much as possible and would appreciate > any suggestions on how I might make the card work when I boot straight > to Ubuntu.
What version of the cx18 driver does your distro have? $ /sbin/modinfo cx18 filename: /lib/modules/2.6.27.9-159.fc10.x86_64/kernel/drivers/media/video/cx18/cx18.ko version: 1.1.0 license: GPL description: CX23418 driver Versions earlier than 1.0.4 won't work reliably. If you have an early version, follow the steps here to get the latest: http://www.ivtvdriver.org/index.php/Cx18#Obtaining_the_driver If you do have a v1.0.4 or later version of the driver, please ensure you have the firmware files: http://dl.ivtvdriver.org/ivtv/firmware/cx18-firmware.tar.gz untarred and stored in the directory in which your distribution expects them. If all that is OK. Try $ sudo /sbin/modprobe -r cx18 $ sudo /sbin/modporbe cx18 debug=15 And send the logs from module load to after the start of the first capture. Regards, Andy _______________________________________________ ivtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://ivtvdriver.org/mailman/listinfo/ivtv-users
