Winfast tv tuner and Slackware

an5w3r_ro · 09-22-2005, 08:55 AM

HY... I just installed Slackware 10.2 and now I'm trying to configure my Winfast TV Tuner card. I've read some posts, did some google, but I'm hopeless

Can somebody please help me configurating it? I also want that the radio to work.

P.S. I'm not an advanced Linux user

m0rg · 09-22-2005, 10:57 AM

You have to find out which chipset is on you tv card and then find the appropriate driver.

(google for video for linux to find it)

and then you'll have to install some tv software like tvtime

an5w3r_ro · 09-22-2005, 11:42 AM

I think i need cx2388x driver but I can't seem to find it anywhere...Oh my good..can somebody help me?

m0rg · 09-22-2005, 03:47 PM

check your chipset using "lspci" as root

and have you looked at this page about drivers?
http://linux.bytesex.org/v4l2/drivers.html

an5w3r_ro · 09-23-2005, 02:36 AM

I did lspci and I got:

03:09.0 Multimedia video controller: Conexant CX23880/1/2/3 PCI Video and Audio Decoder (rev 05)

I think this is the TV Tuner... I'll try now to get that driver

m0rg · 09-23-2005, 03:14 AM

according to the V4L page (the link I posted), this driver should be included in 2.6 kernels so you should only have to load the module with modprobe (should be "modprobe cx2388x" as root)

then check if your module is correctly loaded (using "lsmod | grep cx2388")

if you kernel is a 2.4 version then you'll have to download, compile and install it (you can DL it from this page:http://dl.bytesex.org/releases/video4linux/)

You may also find usefull informations on those pages:

http://linux.bytesex.org/v4l2/cx88.html
http://linuxtv.org/v4lwiki/index.php..._%28cx2388x%29

an5w3r_ro · 09-23-2005, 03:15 AM

root@an5w3r:~# modprobe cx2388x
modprobe: Can't locate module cx2388x

I downloaded the file, extract it, compile it by doing make and now what?

m0rg · 09-23-2005, 03:33 AM

as I said before:

*DL the driver.
*unpack it
*go into the created directory (should be ./cx88-0.0.3)
*then run "make && make install" (as root)
and your driver should be installed
*load it using:"modprobe cx88" or something like that

then check with lsmod

as a side note: have you checked you kernel version (cat /proc/version) as I said earlier if this is 2.6.x then you don't have to install the driver which should be included in the kernel and then you just have to load it using modprobe !

an5w3r_ro · 09-23-2005, 03:41 AM

Ok I did that... I forgot make install

Now the driver is loaded

root@an5w3r:# cat /proc/version
Linux version 2.4.31 (root@tree) (gcc version 3.3.5) #6 Sun Jun 5 19:04:47 PDT 2005

I'll try to download a tv program and see how is going. By the way.. after i reboot I'll have the module loaded at startup? If not how can I add it to be loaded at startup?

m0rg · 09-23-2005, 03:55 AM

not sure if it will be loaded at startup.

anyway you an add a line to your rc.local (or modules.conf) to load it on boot.

For the tv software, try tvtime:http://tvtime.sourceforge.net/

an5w3r_ro · 09-23-2005, 04:04 AM

I did that and when I run it I get:

Quote:

Running tvtime 1.0.1.
Reading configuration from /usr/local/etc/tvtime/tvtime.xml
Reading configuration from /root/.tvtime/tvtime.xml
xvoutput: No XVIDEO port found which supports YUY2 images.

*** tvtime requires hardware YUY2 overlay support from your video card
*** driver. If you are using an older NVIDIA card (TNT2), then
*** this capability is only available with their binary drivers.
*** For some ATI cards, this feature may be found in the experimental
*** GATOS drivers: http://gatos.souceforge.net/
*** If unsure, please check with your distribution to see if your
*** X driver supports hardware overlay surfaces.

What seems to be the problem now?

m0rg · 09-23-2005, 04:20 AM

tvtime use video overlay to show image on the screen.

and it seems that your video card isn't supporting it or you don't have the right drivers for it.

You should try to fix this on your video card (install the drivers)

AFAIK overlay is handled by xvideo module in X (but I don't know much more about this)

try to check your X configuration file to load this module.

You may also try to disable overlay in tvtime (not recommended I think): ask google for this

an5w3r_ro · 09-23-2005, 04:30 AM

What about the radio?
What program should I use?