On Thursday 12 January 2006 09:10, Brian Wood wrote: > On Jan 12, 2006, at 3:43 AM, Drew Tomlinson wrote: > > I got it working! I'm using Gentoo sources for 2.6.13-r5 and selected > > these choices: > > > > Multimedia devices ---> > > <M> Video For Linux > > Video For Linux ---> > > <M> Conexant 2388x (bt878 successor) support > > <M> DVB Support for cx2388x based TV cards > > > > I also downloaded "Firmware" from http://www.pchdtv.com/downloads.html > > and unpacked in to /lib/firmware (not /usr/lib/hotplug/firmware) > > as the > > page suggest. I don't remember where I read about that because I > > did it > > during a previous attempt to get the card working. > > > > Another issue I had was permissions on the actual devices in > > /dev/dvb/adapter0. They were root:root with 660. I read something > > about checking /etc/udev/permissions.d/10-pchdtv.permissions. It was > > there and seemed like it should set the devices up as root:user but my > > devices remained root:root. So I edited > > /etc/udev/rules.d/10-pchdtv.rules and added 'GROUP="user"' to each > > entry > > I needed. Here's an example: > > > > From > > KERNEL="dvb0.dvr*", NAME="dvb/adapter0/dvr%n" > > > > To > > KERNEL="dvb0.dvr*", NAME="dvb/adapter0/dvr%n", GROUP="user" > > > > After a reboot, my devices were now owned by root:user and since my > > MythTV user is in the "user" group, it could access the devices. I > > don't know if that was the "right" way to go about it but it works for > > me. (pointers to the "right" way welcomed) > > > > I tested the card for output as indicated in the guide and it's > > working > > fine. Now on the mythtv-setup to finish... :) > > > > Drew > > Great, glad to hear it, I'm running 2.6.14 but I think it'll be > similar enough. I have had the card working outside MythTV and it > seems to work, so I know I have the firmware etc. correct. > > I wanted to grab one of those cards now, before the government makes > them illegal to sell because they will ignore any sort of "broadcast > flag" which the evil forces are still pressuring Congress to mandate. > > I intended the card for off-air ATSC reception but was surprised to > find it received all of the digital QAM signals on my local cable > system, including the premium and pay-per-view stuff, unfortunately I > have not found any of that worth watching :-)
Drew, glad to hear you finally got it working, I was almost going to suggest a different distro! (the new Kanotix's kernel has support without having to change anything, I just installed it on my new system drive...). Brian, lucky, that you get the premium channels over QAM, does this include HBO and the like? I noticed my cable has these two, but they do a weird rotating thing where the channel will "change" without actually changing the channel (at least it does this on my TV's QAM, I don't think I was ever able to get these channels on my HD3000...) -- Steve _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
