On Saturday 11 December 2004 18:16, Daniel Howell wrote: > Hi all, > > New to the list and, as with many first time posters I imagine, having > the typical problems. Not actually with MythTV itself (well, some minor > little problems, but one thing at a time, eh?!). If these questions > really need to be directed towards the ivtv mailing list, then fair > enough - tell me to sod orf - but I figure most people here will be > using the cards in the same way I'm planning to - ie. purely for mythtv. > Well, I hope so anyway! Would appreciate any advice or guidance anyone > could offer. First some hardware background :- > > XP2200 on Abit mATX motherboard > Onboard VIA sound/network > New Hauppauge PVR350 > New Hauppauge NOVA-T (DVB-T) card > nVidia 5200 AGP > Fedora Core 3 > > Following Jarods guide, I've got all the latest patches and running the > latest kernel, apt has been a wonderful friend and had saved me lots of > hassle. The sound works, the nVidia card works, and the PVR350 works > fine (I installed this first, by itself, to simplify matters). > > The NOVA-T card, however, is causing much more grief. I'm not getting > and /dev/dvb device files appear, which from scouring on the internet > seems to be a populat thing. Running the instdev.sh script creates them, > but none of the created devices are valid - dvbtune, for example, > doesn't pull anything valid from them. It seems obvious that the driver > module isn't loading or initialising properly. > > The quick and simple question to ask to the list is, does anyone have a > modprobe.conf that includes all the lines for running a PVR350 and NOVAT > in the same machine (on FC3)? > > However I'd rather understand what all the bttv, ivtv, cx8800, etc > drivers are actually for, and which ones are needed for each card - and > how I load more than one, associate it with multiple cards, etc. At the > moment, I'm hacking around trying multiple combinations but not really > understanding what I'm doing - and I don't really want to be doing that, > I'd rather what it all means. The commands (alias, install, etc) are > fine - it's just the general structure of the file - for example... > > How does "char-major-81" relate to anything?! I mean, how does anyone > know that's what's got to be entered?! What does it *mean*? 81-0 and > 81-1 - is that referring to individual PCI instances of cards, or > devices on a PCI card itself (encoder, decoder, tuner for example)? > > bttv, ivtv, cx8800 - is my understanding right here.... my current > understanding is that bttv is for bt848 chips, of which the PVR350 uses > it on the tuner only, so I need that. Cx8800 is for the connexant chips, > of which the NOVAT has a couple, so I want that on the NOVA-T card. > Finally, the ivtv driver is purely for the encoder/decoder on the PVR > card (not the tuner). I've browsed so many sites now my mind is a mush > of people saying one thing or another (or, in most cases, telling you to > do something but not explaining why)... > > The options parameter - in particular "card" and "tuner" - where is this > magical list of all the options?! > > Some lspci outputs/etc are here (save flooding the mail list) :- > > http://forums.kustompcs.co.uk/showpost.php?p=207362&postcount=23 > > If there's anything I'm missing, please shout ;] > > All the best, > Dan Howell > Birmingham, UK
It looks like you have the latest Nova-T card using the Conexant chip set. I have just been through the issue of getting drivers for this card. I'm a Mandrake user, but it should be much the same for Fedora. The driver you need is cx88-dvb I do not know it it is in FC-3, but the procedure I used to insert it in my kernel is described here. http://www.linuxtv.org/mailinglists/linux-dvb/2004/11-2004/msg00618.html My modprobe.conf entry is #Nova-T card with Conexant chipset install dvb-nova-cx /sbin/modprobe videodev && { /sbin/modprobe dvb-core; /sbin/modprobe v4l1-compat; /sbin/modprobe v4l2-common; /sbin/modprobe video-buf ; /sbin/modprobe cx88-dvb; /bin/true; } and my modprobe.preload contains dvb-nova-cx Good luck derek _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
