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Hi all I have been trying to install the HVR-950 TV tuner driver under Fedora * and have been having some problems. This driver works great under Ubuntu but at the moment my flavor is Fedora 8. Anyway under Ubuntu the driver compiles cleanly and works fine. However with fedora I get the following out put.

I am using the following instructions to get this installed. (The Fedora 6 section because there is no Fedora 8 section.) Also I have tried doing the experimental driver and get the same exact error. Anyway the instruction are here:
Thanks in advance,
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BTW: I am willing to mess with the code a bit if it means this will start working. I am somewhat Linux savvy. I have tried almost every distribution known to man, including Gentoo - and had it running, mind you. Well I might be exaggerating... just a little... very little... I'll shut up now...

- Install mercurial (a source code control system)
- at the experimental driver root, v4l-dvb-experimental/, run 'hg update 5886' to downgrade the version of the driver (it is the latest version that makes this problem)
- compile normally, with 'make SRCDIR=/usr/src/linux'
- Note: your kernel mustn't be the latest 2.6.24.2.

Thank you.
I also notice you registered just to answer this question, thanks.

This worked great!

PS: I posted a reference to this thread on lunapark6 where the original instruction were.

I successfull installed my hvr 950 but i can't scan for channels:

And when i try to use command : i have:
I live at Montreal (CANADA). I run scan on a windo$ and i have channels, bad quality (local antenna) but i have some channels. Any ideas?

How can i test if the card works without scanning channels?
Can i add channel frequencies manualy?

From Saint-Bruno, south of Montréal.
Here is my channels.conf file.
WPTZ-HD:473000000:8VSB:51:53:3
WPTZ-WX:473000000:8VSB:67:70:7
SRC-HD:503000000:8VSB:49:52:3
CBMT-HD:509000000:8VSB:49:52:3
VPT-HD:581000000:8VSB:49:52:3
VPT-2:581000000:8VSB:65:68:4
VPT-3:581000000:8VSB:81:84:5
VPT-4:581000000:8VSB:97:100:6
WCFE-D2:617000000:8VSB:81:84:5
WCFE-D1:617000000:8VSB:65:68:4
WCFE-HD:617000000:8VSB:49:52:3
CFJP-DT:641000000:8VSB:49:51:1
WFFF-HD:647000000:8VSB:49:52:3
WFFF-DT:647000000:8VSB:65:68:4
WCAX-HD:707000000:8VSB:49:52:1
WCAXTRA:707000000:8VSB:65:68:2
Put file in /.mplayer directory and test with mplayer.
mplayer dvb://WCAXTRA -vo x11 -vop scale=320:240

Thanks!!! Very very very very thanks!

Hello guys,
i obviously don't know enough to understand, but i have this problem. I installed the HVR 950 according to your instructions and thanks a lot all the guys for trying to help us out since companies don't....
after installing the hvr 950, how can i know that it works? how can i search for channels? how can i view?
i tried to install mythtv but it says something about mysql database that cannot connect which i have no idea anyway.....

so any help? thanks a lot

I have an HVR-950 tuner working under openSUSE 10.3 and mythTV 0.20. As I understand MythTV uses mysql to manage program information (the Event Information Table, EIT) and recordings etc. If you install mythtv from rpms it should resolve all of that.

mythtv-setup is used to configure your tuner, video server etc and scan for channels, among other things. I must say getting this all to work was by far the most complicated bit of system configuration I've ever done, however it does indeed work well.

I did a modprobe em28xx....checked with lsmod and it was loaded....then opened up mythtv...no luck. Thanks

It takes a lot more than that. On my SUSE 10.3 system these are the changes to loaded modules when I plug in the tuner :
$ lsmod >list1
<plug in HVR-950 usb tuner>
$ lsmod >list2
$ diff list1 list2
1a2,20
> lgdt330x 12420 1
> qt1010 10500 0
> mt2060 9220 0
> mt352 10632 0
> zl10353 10376 0
> em2880_dvb 17540 0
> dvb_core 79016 2 lgdt330x,em2880_dvb
> em28xx_audio 10628 0
> xc3028_tuner 12416 2
> tvp5150 22800 0
> tuner 65448 0
> em28xx 93236 2 em2880_dvb,em28xx_audio
> compat_ioctl32 5376 1 em28xx
> ir_common 42756 1 em28xx
> videodev 30592 1 em28xx
> v4l2_common 20608 4 tvp5150,tuner,em28xx,videodev
> v4l1_compat 16260 2 em28xx,videodev
> tveeprom 18960 1 em28xx
> i2c_core 27520 10 lgdt330x,qt1010,mt2060,mt352,zl10353,xc3028_tuner,tvp5150,tuner,em28xx,tveeprom
42c61
< snd_pcm 82564 2 snd_pcm_oss,snd_hda_intel
---
> snd_pcm 82564 3 em28xx_audio,snd_pcm_oss,snd_hda_intel
44c63
< snd 58164 9 snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_seq,snd_seq_device,snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm,snd_timer
---
> snd 58164 10 em28xx_audio,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_seq,snd_seq_device,snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm,snd_timer
69c88
< firmware_class 13568 3 microcode,pcmcia,ipw3945
---
> firmware_class 13568 4 xc3028_tuner,microcode,pcmcia,ipw3945
77c96
< usbcore 124268 4 usbhid,ehci_hcd,uhci_hcd
---
> usbcore 124268 7 em2880_dvb,em28xx_audio,em28xx,usbhid,ehci_hcd,uhci_hcd


To get this to work I had to have the kernel source installed (was already anyway) before building and installing v4l. You also need to copy the tuner's firmware to /lib/firmware/

Once the tuner is connected and modules loaded, then you use mythtv-setup to define the video source(s) and scan for channels etc and configure the mythtv video server. Then run mythfilldatabase (I guess mysql is already running), start mythbackend (the video server) and finally mythfrontend.

Did I mention this was hideously complicated?

Things don't have to be difficult. I already have my system fully loaded with all the latest packages. I have the firmware_v4 all extracted and placed all the files in /lib/firmware. I have em28xx loaded. Now in what step do I do what next....simple. Thanks. I would like to get this tuner working. Just tell me what to do next. I see nothing below that has to do with "dvb". As a matter of fact I have NO /dev/dvb listed!



Doug@linux08:~> lsmod
Module Size Used by
af_packet 29064 4
xt_tcpudp 7168 8
xt_pkttype 5888 4
ipt_LOG 9984 8
xt_limit 6656 8
i915 26624 1
drm 79636 2 i915
ipt_REJECT 8448 3
xt_state 6528 4
iptable_mangle 6784 0
iptable_nat 11140 0
nf_nat 21912 1 iptable_nat
iptable_filter 6912 1
nf_conntrack_ipv4 14856 6 iptable_nat
nf_conntrack 61556 4 xt_state,iptable_nat,nf_nat,nf_conntrack_ipv4
nfnetlink 9752 3 nf_nat,nf_conntrack_ipv4,nf_conntrack
ip_tables 16324 3 iptable_mangle,iptable_nat,iptable_filter
ip6_tables 17476 0
x_tables 18308 9 xt_tcpudp,xt_pkttype,ipt_LOG,xt_limit,ipt_REJECT,xt_state,iptable_nat,ip_tables,ip6_tables
microcode 15372 0
cpufreq_conservative 11272 0
firmware_class 13568 1 microcode
cpufreq_userspace 8704 0
cpufreq_powersave 5888 0
snd_pcm_oss 50560 0
acpi_cpufreq 13192 1
snd_mixer_oss 20352 1 snd_pcm_oss
speedstep_lib 9220 0
snd_seq 55348 0
snd_seq_device 12044 1 snd_seq
apparmor 40608 0
loop 21636 0
dm_mod 56880 0
em28xx 47912 0
compat_ioctl32 5376 1 em28xx
ir_common 38148 1 em28xx
tveeprom 18960 1 em28xx
snd_hda_intel 343580 1
sdhci 20364 0
snd_pcm 81028 2 snd_pcm_oss,snd_hda_intel
mmc_core 29828 1 sdhci
ohci1394 36272 0
snd_timer 26756 2 snd_seq,snd_pcm
ieee1394 91136 1 ohci1394
b44 29580 0
snd_page_alloc 14472 2 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm
mii 9344 1 b44
snd_hwdep 13316 1 snd_hda_intel
snd 63932 10 snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_seq,snd_seq_device,snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm,snd_timer,snd_hwdep
rtc_cmos 12064 0
button 12560 0
battery 14724 0
gspca 629732 0
i2c_i801 12560 0
ac 9604 0
rtc_core 23048 1 rtc_cmos
videodev 30464 2 em28xx,gspca
i2c_core 27520 3 em28xx,tveeprom,i2c_i801
rtc_lib 7040 1 rtc_core
v4l2_common 20608 2 em28xx,videodev
intel_agp 27156 1
sr_mod 19492 0
v4l1_compat 16388 2 em28xx,videodev
cdrom 37020 1 sr_mod
agpgart 35764 3 drm,intel_agp
soundcore 11460 1 snd
ndiswrapper 174328 0
joydev 13632 0
sg 37036 0
sd_mod 31104 3
ehci_hcd 35340 0
uhci_hcd 27024 0
usbcore 124268 6 em28xx,gspca,ndiswrapper,ehci_hcd,uhci_hcd
edd 12996 0
ext3 131848 2
mbcache 12292 1 ext3
jbd 68148 1 ext3
fan 9220 0
ata_piix 21380 0
ahci 28548 2
libata 139216 2 ata_piix,ahci
scsi_mod 140376 4 sr_mod,sg,sd_mod,libata
thermal 20872 0
processor 40876 2 acpi_cpufreq,thermal