2. Updating Isely Drivers and Firmware- Two or three times a week I go to a terminal as root in my SuSE Linux 11.1 distro and type in "zypper up". (omit the quotes). Often as not, zypper rewards me with a big bunch of much appreciated updates to my base collection of software.
Time after time I see messages saying: mythtv component this or that is about to be updated. But I have yet to detect a reference to Mike Isely's software. Why is that? Have I configured my repository searches incorrectly? Is there no communication between the Isely web pages and the people at zypper? I read someplace zypper is so smart, it resolves dependencies so well. That there is a measurable improvement in processor speed on zypper installed software compared to software installed by Yast. That being the case, what do I have to do to get Isely enterprises hooked up with zypper? Joel Mayer ----- Original Message ----- From: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Sent: Monday, November 23, 2009 1:00 PM Subject: pvrusb2 Digest, Vol 51, Issue 14 Send pvrusb2 mailing list submissions to [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit http://www.isely.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pvrusb2<http://www.isely.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pvrusb2> or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> You can reach the person managing the list at [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of pvrusb2 digest..." Today's Topics: 1. Re: HVR-1900 needs driver change to support 16K fx2 firmware. (Mike Isely) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Sun, 22 Nov 2009 18:51:51 -0600 (CST) From: Mike Isely <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> Subject: Re: [pvrusb2] HVR-1900 needs driver change to support 16K fx2 firmware. To: Communications nexus for pvrusb2 driver <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> Message-ID: <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Gary: The driver has already been updated (and since the HVR-1950 has BOTH 16KB and 8KB firmware floating around the actual fix is slightly more complex than simply checking for 16KB in place of 8KB). However there is a lag before the in-kernel version is going to pick up the changes. In the mean time you can grab the latest standalone driver which includes the needed changes. See here: http://www.isely.net/pvrusb2/download.html<http://www.isely.net/pvrusb2/download.html> The documentation is also already updated to describe this situation. See here: http://www.isely.net/pvrusb2/setup.html#Firmware<http://www.isely.net/pvrusb2/setup.html#Firmware> -Mike On Sun, 22 Nov 2009, Gary Francis wrote: > Hi Mike, > Firstly, thanks for all the effort in maintaining drivers for the pvrusb2. > I recently acquired an HVR-1900 and now have it working with both Ubuntu > 9.04 and Slackware64 13.0, except for the IR Blaster. Using the extract script > from the 20091031 snapshot I was able to extract the required firmware, but > had a couple of problems in using the latest FX2 firmware. > > The firmware for the HVR-1900 (From 1.2a driver CD) is now 16k in size. To use > this required two changes to the driver source. > 1. The addition of the 16k flag for the HVR-1900 in pvrusb2-devattr.c. > *** 393,398 **** > --- 393,399 ---- > .flag_has_analogtuner = !0, > .flag_has_composite = !0, > .flag_has_svideo = !0, > + .flag_fx2_16kb = !0, > .signal_routing_scheme = PVR2_ROUTING_SCHEME_HAUPPAUGE, > .digital_control_scheme = PVR2_DIGITAL_SCHEME_HAUPPAUGE, > .led_scheme = PVR2_LED_SCHEME_HAUPPAUGE, > > 2. The firmware uploader pvr2_upload_firmware1 in pvrusb2-hdw.c checks is > hardcoded to check for an 8192 byte upload, causing a 16k upload to fail. I > changed this to use the actual size of firmware expected. > *** 1890,1897 **** > > trace_firmware("Upload done (%d bytes sent)",ret); > > ! /* We should have written 8192 bytes */ > ! if (ret == 8192) { > hdw->fw1_state = FW1_STATE_RELOAD; > return 0; > } > --- 1890,1897 ---- > > trace_firmware("Upload done (%d bytes sent)",ret); > > ! /* We should have written fwsize bytes */ > ! if (ret == fwsize) { > hdw->fw1_state = FW1_STATE_RELOAD; > return 0; > } > > Keep up the good work > > Gary > > -- Mike Isely isely @ isely (dot) net PGP: 03 54 43 4D 75 E5 CC 92 71 16 01 E2 B5 F5 C1 E8 ------------------------------ _______________________________________________ pvrusb2 mailing list [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> http://www.isely.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pvrusb2<http://www.isely.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pvrusb2> End of pvrusb2 Digest, Vol 51, Issue 14 *************************************** _______________________________________________ pvrusb2 mailing list [email protected] http://www.isely.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pvrusb2
