Re: CX23103 Video Grabber seems to be supported by cx231xx driver
On Sun, 14 Jul 2013 11:23:46 +0200 Hans Verkuil hverk...@xs4all.nl wrote: Hi Florian, On 07/12/2013 06:26 PM, Florian Streibelt wrote: Hi, the chip CX23103 that is used in various devices sold e.g. in germany works with the cx231xx stock driver. The author of that driver is not reachable via the email adress stated in the source file: srinivasa.de...@conexant.com [ host cnxtsmtp1.conexant.com [198.62.9.252]: 550 5.1.1 srinivasa.de...@conexant.com: Recipient address rejected: User unknown in relay recipient table] Yeah, I suspect he left Conexant. For all practical purposes that leaves me as the maintainer for my sins. heh - also means a patch should remove the wrong email adress/change the maintainers in the source? In drivers/media/video/cx231xx/cx231xx-cards.c the struct usb_device_id cx231xx_id_table[] needs these lines added: {USB_DEVICE(0x1D19, 0x6109), .driver_info = CX231XX_BOARD_PV_XCAPTURE_USB}, That looks OK. Only if the board layout is different :/ There is no information from the vendor, they don't even reply to messages via the contact form, of course. While the change is minimal due to the fact that no real technical documentation is available on the chip the support was guessed - but worked for video. The videostream can pe played using mplayer tv:///0 - proof: http://streibelt.de/blog/2013/06/23/kernel-patch-for-cx23103-video-grabber-linux-support/ However when trying to capture audio using audacity while playing the video stream in mplayer my system locked (no message in syslog, complete freeze). I've no idea what is happening here. It has probably to do with the board setup, although there isn't all that much that you can change there that relates to audio. hm. maybe disable it - currently my time budget is negative - so I cannot really work on this. Try using 'arecord' instead of audicity. The arecord tool is more low-level, so it will be interesting to know if it behaves differently. I'll try - the problem is the complete system freeze - I'll see if I can setup a system with serial console for the kernel log Besides that the only thing I can think of is just to try and add printk's to cx231xx-audio.c and see where things go boom. yup. If I had the time. A useful trick there is to add a mdelay(5) or so after the printk to give the system time to write to the kernel log. ok Be aware that I consider this driver to be flaky, so I would not at all be surprised if there are bugs lurking in the code. Hum. Because of code quality or due to the missing documentation from the vendor? If you have any documents on the chip I would be happy. /Florian -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-media in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Re: CX23103 Video Grabber seems to be supported by cx231xx driver
On Sun, 14 Jul 2013 09:41:40 -0400 Devin Heitmueller dheitmuel...@kernellabs.com wrote: said, you don't need the register docs to debug a system hang. If you don't have the time to jam a few printk() statements into the source, then there's no point in going through the effort to get you docs. heh - yea. The thing is that I don't want to star yet another project which ends in frustration because I have to guess and miss documents. I'll see if I find the time to put some printk's and find a debug system with external logging - but this wil take some time (currently writing my diploma thesis)... /Florian -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-media in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Help needed: Wrong Maintainer Contact
Hi, the maintainer contact for the cx231xx driver is broken - the author of that driver is not reachable via the email adress stated in the source file: srinivasa.de...@conexant.com [ host cnxtsmtp1.conexant.com [198.62.9.252]: 550 5.1.1 srinivasa.de...@conexant.com: Recipient address rejected: User unknown in relay recipient table] Is this the right place to report this? /Florian -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-media in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
CX23103 Video Grabber seems to be supported by cx231xx driver
Hi, the chip CX23103 that is used in various devices sold e.g. in germany works with the cx231xx stock driver. The author of that driver is not reachable via the email adress stated in the source file: srinivasa.de...@conexant.com [ host cnxtsmtp1.conexant.com [198.62.9.252]: 550 5.1.1 srinivasa.de...@conexant.com: Recipient address rejected: User unknown in relay recipient table] In drivers/media/video/cx231xx/cx231xx-cards.c the struct usb_device_id cx231xx_id_table[] needs these lines added: {USB_DEVICE(0x1D19, 0x6109), .driver_info = CX231XX_BOARD_PV_XCAPTURE_USB}, While the change is minimal due to the fact that no real technical documentation is available on the chip the support was guessed - but worked for video. The videostream can pe played using mplayer tv:///0 - proof: http://streibelt.de/blog/2013/06/23/kernel-patch-for-cx23103-video-grabber-linux-support/ However when trying to capture audio using audacity while playing the video stream in mplayer my system locked (no message in syslog, complete freeze). I posted this one month ago to this list without any reaction so I ask if this is the correct way to get that grabber really supported. I am willing to do any tests neccessary and try out patches. /Florian -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-media in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
patch to support CX23103 Video Grabber - USB_DEVICE(0x1D19, 0x6109)
Hi, the chip CX23103 that is used in various devices sold e.g. in germany works with the cx231xx stock driver. The author of that driver is not reachable via the email adress stated in the source file: srinivasa.de...@conexant.com [ host cnxtsmtp1.conexant.com [198.62.9.252]: 550 5.1.1 srinivasa.de...@conexant.com: Recipient address rejected: User unknown in relay recipient table] In drivers/media/video/cx231xx/cx231xx-cards.c the struct usb_device_id cx231xx_id_table[] needs these lines added: {USB_DEVICE(0x1D19, 0x6109), .driver_info = CX231XX_BOARD_PV_XCAPTURE_USB}, While the change is minimal due to the fact that no real technical documentation is available on the chip the support was guessed - but worked for video. The videostream can pe played using mplayer tv:///0 - proof: http://streibelt.de/blog/2013/06/23/kernel-patch-for-cx23103-video-grabber-linux-support/ However when trying to capture audio using audacity while playing the video stream in mplayer my system locked (no message in syslog, complete freeze). regards, Florian -- Florian Streibelt Chair Intelligent Networks (INET) TEL 16 Technische Universität Berlin Ernst-Reuter-Platz 7 10587 Berlin -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-media in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html