perl-Video-Frequencies needed

tjuii · 09-03-2005, 10:53 AM

I'm trying to get my Hauppage pvr 350 working on my suse 9.3 system. I'm following the instructions from here (http://www.homerengineeringcorp.net/mythtv/myth.html), as well as using a few other googled reseources. Right now I am stuck (halfway down the page in the step3 modprobe... section) on finding

Video::Frequencies and Video::ivtv (I did the find Config::inifiles, atleast).

I googled around and around and around and found a few places to download some rpms ... none of which I could get to work either through installing them thru YaST or through rpm at the command line. Here's what I get when I try the command line (Yast does absolutely nothing with them)

Code:

# rpm -i --force perl-Video-Frequencies-0.03-1.noarch.rpm
warning: perl-Video-Frequencies-0.03-1.noarch.rpm: V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID
 3a8f0245

Despite these warnings, I am able to modprobe ivtv (which I couldn't do before). If I proceed under the assumption that these warnings are harmless and go to the next step of using ptune-ui, I get the following:

Code:

# ./ptune-ui.pl
Can't locate Video/Frequencies.pm in @INC (@INC contains: 
/usr/lib/perl5/5.8.6/x86_64-linux-thread-multi /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.6 
/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.6/x86_64-linux-thread-multi /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.6 
/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.6/x86_64-linux-thread-multi 
/usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.6 /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl .) at ./ptune-ui.pl line 9.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at ./ptune-ui.pl line 9.

I'm assuming I don't have the proper perl-Video-Frequencies and ivtv rpms, but I can't find any that work. Does anyone have a tarball, or something else that might work for me.

I'm doing all of this on an AMD64 machine (an HP Media Center PC m1160n) running suse 9.3 pro, if that helps at all.

Thanks

BTW, YaST doesn't see my Hauppage PVR-350 as a TV card, just as a display device (I guess because of the TVout?) so there's no luck there.

tjuii · 09-03-2005, 05:15 PM

well, no takers , huh?

A bit more googling (yeah, I've been doing it for a few days now) turned up another set of instructions, basically the same, but a little prettier and with a few more links for finding some of the necessary files. Here's the link http://www.mythonsuse.org/index.php/IVTV.

So that solved the problem posted above ... but just got me to another one with the ptune-ui.pl. Below is the command line results.

Code:

# ./ptune-ui.pl
unable to open: No such device at ./ptune-ui.pl line 240.

Anyone have a clue ... anyone ... anyone?

Here's the part of the ptune-ui.pl code that contains line 240 (first line is 240)

Code:

 open($tuner, "<$settings{VideoDevice}")
    or die "unable to open: $!";
  $tunerFD = fileno($tuner);

I'd really like to get my TV card working in SUSE and then get mythtv going. Can anyone out there give me a hand?

riba43 · 09-04-2005, 03:40 AM

Hi tjuii,

have you tried in terminal "dmesg" to see whether you have your card drivers installed or not, and also try " sensors-detect" to install the drivers. There are many different versions of the Hauppauge cards with different tuners (TV+Radio......), teletext decoders.
Note that even cards with same model numbers have (depending on the revision) different chips on it.

You should go to :

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...cle&artid=278. There you will find your card number??and follow the instructions.

I had to google a lot to find and then setup my card properly. Now it is working 100% ( My card is TERRATEC CYNERGY TV 600 FM).

Hope it helps.

Regards

tjuii · 09-04-2005, 10:28 AM

Thanks for the tip on that website. I'll check that out.

Here's the dmesg output for ivtv:

Code:

# dmesg | grep ivtv
ivtv: module not supported by Novell, setting U taint flag.
ivtv: ==================== START INIT IVTV ====================
ivtv: version 0.3.2 (c) loading
ivtv: Linux version: 2.6.11.4-21.8-default gcc-3.3
ivtv: In case of problems please include the debug info
ivtv: between the START INIT IVTV and END INIT IVTV lines when
ivtv: mailing the ivtv-devel mailinglist.
ivtv: Autodetected WinTV PVR 250 card
ivtv: Found an iTVC16 based chip
ivtv: Unreasonably low latency timer, setting to 64 (was 32)
ivtv: XXX PCI device: 0x0760 vendor: 0x1039
i2c-algo-bit.o: ivtv i2c driver #0 passed test.
ivtv: i2c attach [client=tveeprom,ok]
ivtv: Tuner Type 47, Tuner formats 0x00001000, Radio: yes, Model 0x008d1598, Revision 0x8034498e
ivtv: NTSC tuner detected
ivtv: Radio detected
tuner: chip found at addr 0xc2 i2c-bus ivtv i2c driver #0
ivtv: i2c attach [client=(tuner unset),ok]
saa7115: starting probe for adapter ivtv i2c driver #0 (0x10005)
ivtv: i2c attach [client=saa7115[0],ok]
ivtv: i2c attach [client=MSP3448W-A2,ok]
ivtv: requesting firmware
ivtv: firmware load failed
ivtv: failed loading encoder firmware
ivtv: Error loading firmware -3!
ivtv: Error -3 initializing firmware.
ivtv: Error -12 on initialization
ivtv-iTVC15_16_mpg2_encoder_card: probe of 0000:00:09.0 failed with error -12
ivtv: ====================  END INIT IVTV  ====================

riba43 · 09-04-2005, 11:31 AM

Hi tjuii,

Which TV package have you installed? I installed TVTime and is working great. KDTV is not working for me. Try that one an install drivers (sensors-detect).

tjuii · 09-04-2005, 06:45 PM

Here's the results of sensors-detect. This is just the end bit, ut using all the default answers everthing came up with the message "failed!"

Code:

Sorry, no chips were detected.
 Either your sensors are not supported, or they are
 connected to an I2C bus adapter that we do not support.
 See doc/FAQ, doc/lm_sensors-FAQ.html, or
 http://www2.lm-sensors.nu/~lm78/cvs/...nsors-FAQ.html
 (FAQ #4.24.3) for further information.
 If you find out what chips are on your board, see
 http://secure.netroedge.com/~lm78/newdrivers.html for driver status.

I haven't installed any tv programs yet, I am just trying to get the hardware detected and working right now. My plans are to install mythtv, but I'll take a look at tvtime, now that you mention it.

cliffer · 10-13-2005, 01:03 PM

you have to load firmware for the encoder chip on the pvr-x50. Your card is being recognized as a 250 but your post said 350. If you have a 350 there are two files that have to be in the hotplug firmware directory. I also put them in /lib/modules. Try this link http://ivtvdriver.org/index.php/Firmware.

I have a 150 and it did not like the large firmware file, the one with the zero padding. Get those in and it should be OK. I have yet to figure out how to get Yast to scan the channels though.

I can get an mpg file created by cat'ng /dev/video0, and I can watch that with xine. I had to tune the card to the right channel. I think I am far enough along to start installing MythTV, but just need to make the time.

cliffer

BruceCadieux · 10-14-2005, 02:09 AM

I use the rpm's from this site http://www.astro.uio.no/%7Eoeysteio/apt/suse/ They work great, and MythTV has been working for me in every version of suse since 9.0. Everything you will need including lirc files for your hauppage grey remtoe are included.