Re: [pvrusb2] WinTV HVR-1975 (with official drivers) failing to load firmware

2016-10-04 Thread Ian Goldberg
On Sun, Sep 18, 2016 at 11:22:03AM -0500, is...@isely.net wrote: > On Sun, 18 Sep 2016, Ian Goldberg wrote: > > > On Sun, Sep 18, 2016 at 03:37:00AM +, Gary Buhrmaster wrote: > > > Lastly, the 1975 is more like two devices than one. > > > It has both the ATSC and DVB demods on board, > > > and

Re: [pvrusb2] WinTV HVR-1975 (with official drivers) failing to load firmware

2016-09-18 Thread isely
On Sun, 18 Sep 2016, Ian Goldberg wrote: > On Sun, Sep 18, 2016 at 03:37:00AM +, Gary Buhrmaster wrote: > > Lastly, the 1975 is more like two devices than one. > > It has both the ATSC and DVB demods on board, > > and likely (although I have no personal experience) > > needs two sets of firmwa

Re: [pvrusb2] WinTV HVR-1975 (with official drivers) failing to load firmware

2016-09-18 Thread Ian Goldberg
On Sun, Sep 18, 2016 at 03:37:00AM +, Gary Buhrmaster wrote: > Lastly, the 1975 is more like two devices than one. > It has both the ATSC and DVB demods on board, > and likely (although I have no personal experience) > needs two sets of firmware blobs (one for each > demod)? It does come with

Re: [pvrusb2] WinTV HVR-1975 (with official drivers) failing to load firmware

2016-09-17 Thread Gary Buhrmaster
On Sun, Sep 18, 2016 at 2:30 AM, wrote: > > Ian: > > Wait a second. Now I'm confused. Are you or are not using the pvrusb2 > driver? The error you quoted was definitely phrasing that would have > come from the pvrusb2 driver. If you're using something else entirely > different I'd be VERY cur

Re: [pvrusb2] WinTV HVR-1975 (with official drivers) failing to load firmware

2016-09-17 Thread Ian Goldberg
On Sat, Sep 17, 2016 at 09:55:33PM -0500, is...@isely.net wrote: > On Sat, 17 Sep 2016, Ian Goldberg wrote: > > > > > Hauppauge a little while back posted the #3 thing (that used to require > > the NDA) to their web page, no more NDA required. So #2 and #3 are the > > same thing now. > > > > Th

Re: [pvrusb2] WinTV HVR-1975 (with official drivers) failing to load firmware

2016-09-17 Thread isely
On Mon, 12 Sep 2016, Roger wrote: [...] > > I'll take a gander, likely one or two chips (or maybe some of the code > for the firmware) have questionable disclosures attached during the > engineering/manufacturing process. And may or may not be provided > openly at a later date. But then

Re: [pvrusb2] WinTV HVR-1975 (with official drivers) failing to load firmware

2016-09-17 Thread isely
On Sat, 17 Sep 2016, Ian Goldberg wrote: > > Hauppauge a little while back posted the #3 thing (that used to require > the NDA) to their web page, no more NDA required. So #2 and #3 are the > same thing now. > > That thing is a *patch* to the kernel mainline pvrusb2 driver. To > install it, on

Re: [pvrusb2] WinTV HVR-1975 (with official drivers) failing to load firmware

2016-09-17 Thread isely
On Tue, 13 Sep 2016, Gary Buhrmaster wrote: > On Mon, Sep 12, 2016 at 10:35 PM, wrote: > > > I know basically nothing about the HVR-1975. > > As I understand it, the HVR-1975 is essentially > a "one size fits all" redesign of the basic HVR-1900 > and the HVR-1950/1955 which is compatible with

Re: [pvrusb2] WinTV HVR-1975 (with official drivers) failing to load firmware

2016-09-17 Thread Ian Goldberg
On Sat, Sep 17, 2016 at 09:30:34PM -0500, is...@isely.net wrote: > > Ian: > > Wait a second. Now I'm confused. Are you or are not using the pvrusb2 > driver? The error you quoted was definitely phrasing that would have > come from the pvrusb2 driver. If you're using something else entirely

Re: [pvrusb2] WinTV HVR-1975 (with official drivers) failing to load firmware

2016-09-17 Thread isely
OK, I looked at case #2 and it's a ginormous patch against a few v4l chip-level drivers and additional configuration definition(s) for the pvrusb2 driver to support this device. In addition, the patch appears to be modifying functional logic in the driver itself, which may or may not be harmf

Re: [pvrusb2] WinTV HVR-1975 (with official drivers) failing to load firmware

2016-09-17 Thread isely
Ian: Wait a second. Now I'm confused. Are you or are not using the pvrusb2 driver? The error you quoted was definitely phrasing that would have come from the pvrusb2 driver. If you're using something else entirely different I'd be VERY curious know why the resemblence. Also - to others he

Re: [pvrusb2] WinTV HVR-1975 (with official drivers) failing to load firmware

2016-09-13 Thread Roger
> On Mon, Sep 12, 2016 at 09:36:25PM -0400, Ian Goldberg wrote: >On Mon, Sep 12, 2016 at 08:45:19PM -0400, Roger wrote: >> kernel 3.16 >> http://hauppauge.lightpath.net/software/linux/linux-ubuntu-14-04-2.tar.xz >> >> kernel 3.19 patch >> http://hauppauge.lightpath.net/software/linux/hvr-9x5-19x5-

Re: [pvrusb2] WinTV HVR-1975 (with official drivers) failing to load firmware

2016-09-12 Thread Ian Goldberg
On Mon, Sep 12, 2016 at 08:45:19PM -0400, Roger wrote: > kernel 3.16 > http://hauppauge.lightpath.net/software/linux/linux-ubuntu-14-04-2.tar.xz > > kernel 3.19 patch > http://hauppauge.lightpath.net/software/linux/hvr-9x5-19x5-22x5-kernel-3.19-2015-07-10-v2.patch.tar.xz > > kernel 4.2 (already h

Re: [pvrusb2] WinTV HVR-1975 (with official drivers) failing to load firmware

2016-09-12 Thread Roger
2014.02.26 Hauppauge Press release: http://www.hauppauge.com/pdfs/pr_hauppauge_wintv-hvr-1975.pdf "We expect the WinTV-HVR-1975 to be used in Linux based systems for digital signage, sports equipment, hospital patient entertainment systems and other TV watching and high speed data delivery appli

Re: [pvrusb2] WinTV HVR-1975 (with official drivers) failing to load firmware

2016-09-12 Thread Ian Goldberg
On Tue, Sep 13, 2016 at 12:37:25AM +, Gary Buhrmaster wrote: > On Mon, Sep 12, 2016 at 10:35 PM, wrote: > > > I know basically nothing about the HVR-1975. > > As I understand it, the HVR-1975 is essentially > a "one size fits all" redesign of the basic HVR-1900 > and the HVR-1950/1955 which

Re: [pvrusb2] WinTV HVR-1975 (with official drivers) failing to load firmware

2016-09-12 Thread Gary Buhrmaster
On Mon, Sep 12, 2016 at 10:35 PM, wrote: > I know basically nothing about the HVR-1975. As I understand it, the HVR-1975 is essentially a "one size fits all" redesign of the basic HVR-1900 and the HVR-1950/1955 which is compatible with both US and DVB standards [mostly for commercial embedded s

Re: [pvrusb2] WinTV HVR-1975 (with official drivers) failing to load firmware

2016-09-12 Thread isely
The driver is getting upset because it can't load "firmware2", which is the firmware needed for the mpeg2 encoder IC in the device. Without that firmware, the encoder can't run and basically you won't be able to get any mpeg data at all from the device. Looking at the function in question, it