[mythtvnz] configuring hvr-2200 card

[Paul Kendall]

On Sat, Sep 17, 2011 at 4:17 PM, David Moore <dmoo1790 at ihug.co.nz> wrote:
> On 17/09/11 15:26, Paul Kendall wrote:
>> 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:
>>>> 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/
>>
> Weirdness. The source for saa7164-cards.c at
> http://kernellabs.com/hg/saa7164-stable/ does indeed include the 8940
> but it doesn't have any of the extra ports for mpeg encoding in the
> source at
> http://git.linuxtv.org/media_tree.git/tree/HEAD:/drivers/media/video/saa7164.
> Also the files at http://kernellabs.com/hg/saa7164-stable/ don't seem to
> be as new as the ones at git.linuxtv.org.
>
> Also saa7164-fw.c at kernellabs points to v4l-saa7164-1.0.2-3.fw and
> v4l-saa7164-1.0.3-3.fw (for different card revs) whereas git.linuxtv.org
> points to NXP7164-2010-03-10.1.fw. Seems firmware was consolidated into
> one file for all card revs at some stage.
>
> My guess is that the latest stuff is at git.linuxtv.org but somehow the
> 8940 card was forgotten.

You could probably just grab that commit patch and apply to the git.linuxtv.org
tree.

>
> For me it seems my driver and firmware is way out of date (although it
> works fine for DVB-T). :-) Might try and upgrade soonish to see if/how
> analogue capture works. I'll report on how it goes if I do.
>

PK