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<body>On Sun, 21 Oct 2012 10:00:08 +1300, Nick Rout <nick.rout@gmail.com> wrote:<br><br><blockquote style="margin: 0 0 0.80ex; border-left: #0000FF 2px solid; padding-left: 1ex"><p><br>
On Oct 21, 2012 8:51 AM, "Paulgir" <<a href="mailto:paulgir@gmail.com">paulgir@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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> On Fri, 19 Oct 2012 10:36:56 +1300, Curtis Walker <<a href="mailto:sultanoswing@gmail.com">sultanoswing@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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>> On 19 October 2012 10:26, Paulgir <<a href="mailto:paulgir@gmail.com">paulgir@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
>>><br>
>>><br>
>>>><br>
>>>> After fixing some reception issues with a home-made folded dipole, I<br>
>>>> noticed<br>
>>>> a similar problem with pixellation approximately every 20 minutes.<br>
>>>><br>
>>>> I believe this Pixellation problem may have been due to missing<br>
>>>> firmware. Specifically, my system was not loading the firmware for the<br>
>>>> tda10048<br>
>>>> devices. It was successfully loading the saa7164, and tda18271 firmware,<br>
>>>> however<br>
>>>> the tda10048 firmware file was missing.<br>
>>>><br>
>>>> I downloaded HVR-12x0-14x0-17x0_1_25_25271_WHQL.zip, and extract.sh from:<br>
>>>><br>
>>>> <a href="http://www.steventoth.net/linux/hvr22xx/">http://www.steventoth.net/linux/hvr22xx/</a><br>
>>><br>
>>><br>
>>><br>
>>><br>
>>><br>
>>>><br>
>>>> Then extracted the file dvb-fe-tda10048-1.0.fw using extract.sh, and<br>
>>>> copied the<br>
>>>> firnmware file to lib/firmware.<br>
>>><br>
>>><br>
>>><br>
>>> Could you describe how you do this in terms an idiot can follow?<br>
>>> How do you get extract.sh to do it's stuff.<br>
>>> I just tried it on my Ubuntu box and nothing seemed to happen.<br>
>>><br>
>>> -Paul<br>
>>><br>
>> This from the HVR2200 linuxTV wiki page<br>
>> (<a href="http://www.linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php/Hauppauge_WinTV-HVR-2200">http://www.linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php/Hauppauge_WinTV-HVR-2200</a>):<br>
>><br>
>> Open a terminal on your desktop and enter the following commands one at a time:<br>
>><br>
>> wget <a href="http://www.steventoth.net/linux/hvr22xx/22xxdrv_27086.zip">http://www.steventoth.net/linux/hvr22xx/22xxdrv_27086.zip</a><br>
>> wget <a href="http://www.steventoth.net/linux/hvr22xx/HVR-12x0-14x0-17x0_1_25_25271_WHQL.zip">http://www.steventoth.net/linux/hvr22xx/HVR-12x0-14x0-17x0_1_25_25271_WHQL.zip</a><br>
>> wget <a href="http://www.steventoth.net/linux/hvr22xx/extract.sh">http://www.steventoth.net/linux/hvr22xx/extract.sh</a><br>
>><br>
>> You should see some stuff downloading after each of the above. Next<br>
>> (still in a terminal), run the extractor shell script:<br>
>><br>
>> sh extract.sh<br>
>><br>
>> You should now have 4 or 5 firmware files (*.fw) on your desktop. Now,<br>
>> still in the terminal, copy these extracted files to the correct<br>
>> place:<br>
>><br>
>> cp *fw /lib/firmware<br>
>><br>
>> Some linux distros, might need the following line instead of the above:<br>
>><br>
>> cp *fw /lib/firmware/`uname -r`<br>
>><br>
>> Hopefully this is simple enough!<br>
>><br>
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> I found that my system did not have the dvb-fe-tda10048-1.0.fw file either.<br>
> I copied it to lib/firmware yesterday and have not had any pixellation events since.<br>
> This bug certainly was a can of red herrings.Weird that in my case reduction of signal improved the problem.<br>
><br>
> Many thanks Curtis for finding the real cause of this problem.</p>
<p>The firmware file is packaged in ubuntu in linux-firmware-nonfree. What distro are you guys on? I recall someone mentioning arch. Maybe you need to file a bug report?<br></p>
</blockquote><br><div>I'm on Mythbuntu 11.10</div><div><br></div><div>Paul<br></div><br></body></html>