I might sit down and give it another go. I'd love to get it working, as the wife hogs the PVR and anything I tape gets removed rather quickly which is most annoying. I managed to get the drivers to work and had the card working under X windows. BUt mythtv was being a pain and would not compile. Infact doing the qmake did nothing at all.
Guess I might just kick off another install and see what happens. On 10/6/05, James <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thursday 06 October 2005 10:00, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Anyone able to confirm if the Dvico Fusion HDTV card drivers are now > > > merged into recent 2.6 kernels? ie. no need to grab the files and compile > > > into a kernel. > > > > I don't think they are. I know that the linuxtv.org > > <http://linuxtv.org>source has merged in to the recent kernel patches. > > > > About to embark on playing around with one and all the howtos I have found > > > > > are out dated, so was wanting to confirm if the process about the driver > > > can be skipped. > > > > DVICO for me doesn't work for twinhan cards. So becareful that you are not > > trying to use wrong drivers. if your card is Twinhan then you should do is > > recompile with dvb-t and saa7xxxx also btxxx, and bttv-dsp. I think. > > > > I was thinking of trying to use a recent version of Kubuntu just for the > > > > > sake of it, as I want to confirm if Mythtv is remotely usefull to me > > > after all, and if so, should i get some new hardware to run it. etc. > > They definitly ARE in the kernel: > > Linux tigger 2.6.11-smp #4 SMP Sat Jul 30 11:50:31 WST 2005 i686 i686 i386 > GNU/Linux > > BUT I have plus, lite and old cards. The old cards did not work. Spelunking > Pascoes stuff showed the old cards uning the SAME tuner as the plus. I edited > > drivers/media/video/cx88/cx88-cards.c > > case CX88_BOARD_DVICO_FUSIONHDTV_DVB_T1: > /* GPIO0:0 is hooked to mt352 reset pin */ > cx_set(MO_GP0_IO, 0x00000101); > cx_clear(MO_GP0_IO, 0x00000001); > msleep(1); > cx_set(MO_GP0_IO, 0x00000101); > core->pll_addr = 0x61; > core->pll_desc = &dvb_pll_thomson_dtt7579; > //jam core->pll_desc = &dvb_pll_lg_z201; > > break; > > > And everything works. I've not looked at any newer kernels than .11 to see if > it's fixed. Maybe only Oz versions of the old card are in existance. > > My experience on a few systems is that the DVICO card will not do HDTV. > P4-3G GT6600 graphics nearly there, but still not OK. SD is fine. (myth 0.15, > 0.18) > James > -- > SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ > Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html > -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
