----- Original Message ----- From: "brett olah" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Discussion about mythtv" <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, September 20, 2005 8:05 AM Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] 6200ch 1394 Drivers & such
> ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Ian Forde" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Discussion about mythtv" <[email protected]> > Sent: Tuesday, September 20, 2005 3:56 AM > Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] 6200ch 1394 Drivers & such > > > > On Mon, 2005-09-19 at 16:46 -0700, brett olah wrote: > > > Hi Group, > > > I've been running several MythTV boxes off Com[unist]cast cable in South > San > > > Jose CA., running as analog (cable directly in to the PC) for a few > years > > > and was extatic when I saw the 1394 channel support for DCT6200, no > longer > > > limmited to 73 Channels. > > > > > > 6200ch compiled fine no problems, I think I'm not a programer, no > error's > > > anyway. > > > I am having an issue getting the channels to change ... > > > > You don't need 6200ch anymore. Myth has support for internal firewire > > channel-changing for the 6200 boxes. I was going to point you to the > > official docs, but it turns out that the docs haven't been updated. > > > > On the other hand, looking at the main page http://www.mythtv.org/ one > > can find the following as the featureset in 0.18.1: > > > > "Internal channel-change over firewire support for DCT-6200 series cable > > boxes - no external program required like before." > > > > Sooo... > > > > -I > > > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- > ---- > I saw that but I couldn't find any "how to configure" section in the docs, > nor on the net. > digging around I stumbled across the 6200ch with plenty of documentation, > figured it was worth a try. > > I did figure out the file not found issue: > I was missing the /dev/raw1394 node > > It turns out my 6200 is brand new (from comcast, just picked it up last > week) and not supported by the 6200ch in contrib > after hacking it a bit to add my vendor_id & model_id, I think I found:: > vendor_id = 0x000011d8 > model_id = 0x00000000 > spec_id = 0x0000005e > software version = 0x00000001 > > If the code in 0.18.1 is the same/similar I'd expect a similar problem? > > > Thanks > Brett;] > > > I compiled 0.18.1 ... no problems but ... Where/How do I turn it on? I think I've exhausted mythtv-setup/mythfrontend setup, did I miss it? Brett;] depmod: ieee1394: Initialized config rom entry `ip1394' ohci1394: $Rev: 1223 $ Ben Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ohci1394: fw-host0: OHCI-1394 1.1 (PCI): IRQ=[209] MMIO=[f8025000-f80257ff] Max Packet=[2048] ieee1394: Host added: ID:BUS[0-00:1023] GUID[0011d80000181b03] ieee1394: Node added: ID:BUS[0-01:1023] GUID[0014e8fffe19dd19] ieee1394: raw1394: /dev/raw1394 device initialized # 1394 Drivers :) raw1394 33325 0 dv1394 24461 0 ohci1394 37849 1 dv1394 ieee1394 308216 3 raw1394,dv1394,ohci1394 configure output: FireWire support yes compiled w/ no Errors only unrelated warnings: vbitext/cc.cpp:119: warning: 'int webtv_check(char*, int)' defined but not used mpeg/mpegstreamdata.h:139: warning: unused parameter 'tspacket' _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
