[mythtvnz] (Solved) followup of new 0.27 install

Nick Rout nick.rout at gmail.com
Thu Oct 17 03:55:11 BST 2013


On Thu, Oct 17, 2013 at 8:08 AM, Mark van Dijk
<mark.van.dijk.74 at gmail.com>wrote:

> Thanks guys!!!  I think you have the answer.
>>>
>>> When i originally installed the firmware for my HVR-2200, i followed the
>>> following instructions:
>>>
>>> http://www.linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php/Hauppauge_WinTV-HVR-2200#Making_it_Work_Easily
>>>
>>>
>>> After reading your suggestions i double checked my dmesg, and i don't
>>> know how i could possibly have missed the error, but there was a reference
>>> to another failed firmware download for 'dvb-fe-tda10048-1.0.fw'!   I'm
>>> surprised that anything was working at all with a missing firmware...
>>>
>>> As suggested by the link that Curtis sent - I downloaded:
>>>     www.steventoth.net/linux/hvr22xx/22xxdrv_27086.zip
>>>
>>> www.steventoth.net/linux/hvr22xx/HVR-12x0-14x0-17x0_1_25_25271_WHQL.zip
>>>     www.steventoth.net/linux/hvr22xx/extract.sh
>>>
>>> and using 'extract.sh' I got the firmware files, put them into
>>> /lib/firmware/.  Been running for a few hours now, without any issues
>>> what-so-ever.  Touch-wood, but I think that's the last I'll see of the
>>> pixellation issues.
>>>
>>> Looking at the original linuxtv.org page again, i see that this correct
>>> procedure was noted just a couple of screens up from the directions i
>>> originally followed...
>>>
>>> Thanks again!
>>> Mark
>>>
>>
> What distro are you on. As already advised in this thread, this file is
>> packaged for ubuntu
>>
>> http://packages.ubuntu.com/precise/all/linux-firmware-nonfree/filelist
>>
>> The package needs to be installed though, it's not installed by default,
>> even on mythbuntu.
>
>
>
> Yes - that would have been even easier!  I didn't see your message until
> after I had already installed the missing firmware...  I'm running
> Mythbuntu 12.04.3.
>

Out of interest, what is the md5sum of the file you downloaded (so i can
check if it is the same version).

N
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