[mythtvnz] (SOLVED) followup of new 0.27 install (Curtis Walker)

Nick Rout nick.rout at gmail.com
Tue Oct 15 21:08:22 BST 2013


On Wed, Oct 16, 2013 at 8:48 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.
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