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| Poly-poly man 2006-11-13, 8:28 am |
| I apologize if the following message shows that I'm an idiot. I just haven't
done this _before_
I screwed up my SuSE partition installing Ubuntu, so I scrapped it all and
installed Gentoo. It is amazing.
This is not the time nor place to be discussing promotion; I have a
question.
I bought a TV tuner card from CompUSA (occaisionally has wonderful prices on
wonderful stuff) for about $25, no rebates. I'm trying to get it working
now. It is based on a cx88-ready chipset, as lspci -v says:
02:0a.0 Multimedia video controller: Conexant CX23880/1/2/3 PCI Video and
Audio Decoder (rev 05)
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 217
Memory at f6000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16M]
Capabilities: [44] Vital Product Data
Capabilities: [4c] Power Management version 2
However, the driver in the kernel that Gentoo built doesn't suppoprt this
version. The "CARDLIST.cx88" in the Docs section of the kernel only goes to
card 46. The newest CVS of the driver goes much farther, including card
52 - the Norwood Micro (mine). My question is this: How do I build the
driver for it? It is included in the latest testing kernel, if that helps
me. I wish to A. not build a new kernel and B. not screw up portage.
tia,
poly-p man
--
There's no place like ~
Gentoo RULES!!!
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| Poly-poly man 2006-11-13, 8:28 am |
| Poly-poly man wrote:
> I apologize if the following message shows that I'm an idiot. I just
> haven't done this _before_
>
> I screwed up my SuSE partition installing Ubuntu, so I scrapped it all and
> installed Gentoo. It is amazing.
>
> This is not the time nor place to be discussing promotion; I have a
> question.
>
> I bought a TV tuner card from CompUSA (occaisionally has wonderful prices
> on wonderful stuff) for about $25, no rebates. I'm trying to get it
> working now. It is based on a cx88-ready chipset, as lspci -v says:
>
> 02:0a.0 Multimedia video controller: Conexant CX23880/1/2/3 PCI Video and
> Audio Decoder (rev 05)
> Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 217
> Memory at f6000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16M]
> Capabilities: [44] Vital Product Data
> Capabilities: [4c] Power Management version 2
>
> However, the driver in the kernel that Gentoo built doesn't suppoprt this
> version. The "CARDLIST.cx88" in the Docs section of the kernel only goes
> to card 46. The newest CVS of the driver goes much farther, including card
> 52 - the Norwood Micro (mine). My question is this: How do I build the
> driver for it? It is included in the latest testing kernel, if that helps
> me. I wish to A. not build a new kernel and B. not screw up portage.
>
> tia,
> poly-p man
Okay, almost there. I built kernel 2.6.19-rc5 using genkernel, which has my
driver. Dmesg says this on a modprbe cx8800:
....
cx88[0]: Your board has no valid PCI Subsystem ID and thus can't
cx88[0]: be autodetected. Please pass card=<n> insmod option to
cx88[0]: workaround that. Redirect complaints to the vendor of
cx88[0]: the TV card. Best regards,
cx88[0]: -- tux
cx88[0]: Here is a list of valid choices for the card=<n> insmod option:
cx88[0]: card=0 -> UNKNOWN/GENERIC
cx88[0]: card=1 -> Hauppauge WinTV 34xxx models
cx88[0]: card=2 -> GDI Black Gold
cx88[0]: card=3 -> PixelView
....
cx88[0]: card=53 -> Hauppauge WinTV-HVR3000 TriMode Analog/DVB-S/DVB-T
cx88[0]: card=54 -> Norwood Micro TV Tuner
cx88[0]: card=55 -> Shenzhen Tungsten Ages Tech TE-DTV-250 / Swann OEM
cx88[0]: card=56 -> Hauppauge WinTV-HVR1300 DVB-T/Hybrid MPEG Encoder
....
I assume from this I'm supposed to do a modprobe cx8800 card=54 ?
That results in :
cx8800: Unknown parameter `card'
Any ideas for getting this thing up?
poly-p man
It's not a total loss, the composite input works.
--
There's no place like ~
Gentoo RULES!!!
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