[mythtvnz] configuring hvr-2200 card

Roger Searle roger.searle at gmail.com
Thu Sep 15 20:44:01 BST 2011


Hi, my first venture into mythtv, I have 0.24 + fixes installed on Linux 
Mint 11 and using the box as combined front/backend.  HVR-2200 card 
installed, and have the drivers installed as per 
http://www.linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php/Hauppauge_WinTV-HVR-2200

I'm stuck and not sure where I should go from here, below is as much as 
I've been able to manage, any advice gratefully accepted.

lspci -v

02:00.0 Multimedia controller: Philips Semiconductors SAA7164 (rev 81)
     Subsystem: Hauppauge computer works Inc. WinTV HVR-2200 (submodel 
89619)
     Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 19
     Memory at fcc00000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4M]
     Memory at fc800000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4M]
     Capabilities: <access denied>
     Kernel driver in use: saa7164
     Kernel modules: saa7164


But according to dmesg I'm not quite there:

roger at gemini ~ $ dmesg | grep 7164
[    1.043204] pci 0000:02:00.0: [1131:7164] type 0 class 0x000480
[   16.312461] saa7164 driver loaded
[   16.315258] saa7164 0000:02:00.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 19 (level, low) -> 
IRQ 19
[   16.315262] saa7164[0]: Your board isn't known (yet) to the driver.
[   16.315263] saa7164[0]: Try to pick one of the existing card configs via
[   16.315264] saa7164[0]: card=<n> insmod option.  Updating to the latest
[   16.315265] saa7164[0]: version might help as well.
[   16.315267] saa7164[0]: Here are valid choices for the card=<n> 
insmod option:
[   16.315269] saa7164[0]:    card=0 -> Unknown
[   16.315270] saa7164[0]:    card=1 -> Generic Rev2
[   16.315271] saa7164[0]:    card=2 -> Generic Rev3
[   16.315272] saa7164[0]:    card=3 -> Hauppauge WinTV-HVR2250
[   16.315274] saa7164[0]:    card=4 -> Hauppauge WinTV-HVR2200
[   16.315275] saa7164[0]:    card=5 -> Hauppauge WinTV-HVR2200
[   16.315277] saa7164[0]:    card=6 -> Hauppauge WinTV-HVR2200
[   16.315278] saa7164[0]:    card=7 -> Hauppauge WinTV-HVR2250
[   16.315279] saa7164[0]:    card=8 -> Hauppauge WinTV-HVR2250
[   16.315850] CORE saa7164[0]: subsystem: 0070:8940, board: Unknown 
[card=0,autodetected]
[   16.315855] saa7164[0]/0: found at 0000:02:00.0, rev: 129, irq: 19, 
latency: 0, mmio: 0xfcc00000
[   16.315860] saa7164 0000:02:00.0: setting latency timer to 64
[   16.315870] saa7164_initdev() Unsupported board detected, registering 
without firmware


Further reading suggests "modprobe saa7164 card=3" (which returns no 
output so presume that went OK?).  However nothing in /dev?

roger at gemini ~ $ ls /dev | grep dvb
roger at gemini ~ $ ls /dev | grep video

Not surprisingly, attempts to add a "DVB DTV capture card (v3.x)" in 
mythtv backend do not allow getting the focus to the "DVB device number" 
field.

Cheers,
Roger




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