[mythtvnz] configuring hvr-2200 card

[Paul Kendall]

On Sat, Sep 17, 2011 at 3:06 PM, David Moore <dmoo1790 at ihug.co.nz> wrote:
> On 17/09/11 13:54, Craig Whitmore wrote:
>> instructions on
>>>>> http://linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php/Hauppauge_WinTV-HVR-2200. I don't
>>>>> recall doing this myself so I assume late model kernels have built-in
>>>>> driver support for the HVR-2200 chipset?
>>
>>
>> I wrote 1/2 the HVR-2200 page above as I got a 2200 about a 6-12 months
>> before the linux drivers where available :-)
>> It was pretty simple to get it going (when all the drivers where written
>> with lots of testing) (If you look at the history I'm LennonNZ)
>>
>> You can probably remove the card=X from the mod load/probe after you got
>> the firmware (if it makes any difference)
>> (I think the Sample kernel output is still from my machine .. (yes it is)
>>
>
> I don't think this will work for Roger's particular card version.
> Browsing the driver source (see below) I cannot see his card version
> (8940) listed in saa7164-cards.c.

Steven Toth added this particular card to his repository about 20 months ago.
http://kernellabs.com/hg/saa7164-stable/

>
>> You can see older instructions from getting the source code from
>> Kernellabs (the guy who wrote the main driver from)
>>
>> http://linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php?title=Hauppauge_WinTV-HVR-2200&oldid=2276
>> 2
>>
>> I think Analogtv was "nearly" working but I haven't got my 2200 in a
>> working machine at the moment so I cannot test.
>>
>> Thanks
>> Craig
>>
> Cheers. I'm slowly getting a grip on hardware, driver and firmware
> versions. Been browsing source at
> http://git.linuxtv.org/media_tree.git/tree/HEAD:/drivers/media/video/saa7164
> and it seems mpeg encoder (i.e., analogue TV) support was added in Oct
> 2010. Also seems I have saa7164 driver dated Dec 2009 but I'm not
> totally sure.
>