On Thu, 24 Feb 2005 23:41:39 -0600, Mat Kyne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> "Or use the new DVB-code-based HD-3000 drivers.
> --Wendy "
> 
> Sorry, But where can I find these drivers?  I have tried any/all
> instructions for pcHDTV installation that I could find on the internet, but
> all I end up doing is having to re-install FC3.  ( I can almost do it
> blindfolded now)  ;-)

Hi Mat,

Some of this may be redundant to you, I'm a newb (haven't even earned
full newbie status yet), but it should point you in the right
direction.  Anyone one else should smack me if they can think of
easier ways to do this ...

You shouldn't need to re-install FC3 ... but you will need a new
kernel.  As far as I can tell this should work

I started by following directions at
http://www.pchdtv.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=521 figuring I would have
to only make minor adjustments for the HD3000. I didn't edit the
Makefiles from this posting since it was specific to the HD2000 and
looked like it was going to cause havok.

untar kernel-source-2.6.10.tar.bz2 to /usr/src/kernel-source-2.6.10
ln -s /usr/src/kernel-source-2.6.10 linux
ln -s /usr/src/kernel-source-2.6.10 linux-2.6

get the latest CVS from linuxtv by following the instructions at
http://www.linuxtv.org/cvs.php this will put a directory called
dvb-kernel on your drive (in whatever directory you called cvs from)
While you are at it you will want to get dvb-apps as well.

I did this so that it ended up in /usr/src/dvb-kernel

cd to /usr/src/dvb-kernel ran:
<code>
#sh ./makelinks /usr/src/kernel-source-2.6.10
</code>

cd to /usr/src/kernel-source-2.6.10
use your current config as a starting point(it makes it easier)
so do a make oldconfig
then make menuconfig

I made sure the following Device Drivers as modules

I2C Support
Video for Linux 
DVB for Linux 
DVB Core 

I didn't include any specific device support here, since I am going to
use the current v4l2 drivers

save the config and do make and install dance... 
I used make-kpkg then dpkg to install and then rebooted. Sorry don't
know what you need to do for FC3, I only started using Debian two
months ago, and the last time I dabbled with linux previous to that
was in 96 or 97 with Slackware ...

get the latest video4linux CVS snapshot from
http://dl.bytesex.org/cvs-snapshots/ and un-tar it with tar -xzvf
<filename> You should now have a directory called video4linux.

I did this so that it ended up in /usr/src/video4linux

do a make in video4linux. At this point everything should have built
without error.
(I used video4linux-20050221-135759.tar.gz and I had to hardcode the
kernel ver for it to work compile and install to my current kernel
version)

video4linux places the modules in /lib/modules/(kernel ver)/v4l2. I
like to keep all the non-kernel built modules in there (even the ones
from DVB) and remove the older modules from the kernel tree to avoid
conflicts. As root issue the following:
<code>
#depmod -e
#modprobe cx88-dvb
#dvb-kernel/MAKEDEV-DVB.sh
</code>
Everything should have loaded, but before we can test we need to put
the firmware into the right hotplug directory.

Get the firmware files for the HD3000 for Kernel-2.6 hotplug drivers
from http://pchdtv.com/downloads.html

Look at your /etc/hotplug/firmware.agent file for a line
FIRMWARE_DIR=. Copy all fo the .fw files from dvb-kernel/firmware to
the path listed as your FIRMWARE_DIR as well as the firmware you
downloaded.  I know ... I know, it's more than you need ... all you
really need is the dvb-fe-or51132-vsb.fw for OTA and
dvb-fe-or51132-qam.fw for QAM.

it was /usr/lib/hotplug/firmware for Debian .. should be similar for
you... make sure hotplug is current, mine wasn't.

You should be set to access the board through the DVB driver using the
apps using the dvb-apps you downloaded and made.

I compiled the dvb-apps and was able to get a lock using azap (read
the readme for setting up the channels.conf for azap) and using the
scan for transports within mythsetup.

I've got some DMA issues and antenna issuess .. and some others
related to my switch from 2.4.26... so things aren't perfect but as
far as I can tell the drivers are working and recording.

Overall it wasn't too bad :)
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