Attempting to get Hauppauge WinTV-HVR-1280 to function
 

Hello,
I have a new HP quad-core AMD-64 system that came with Vista Home Premium 64, and this Hauppauge card. It has a Conexant cx23885/88 chip with Samsung front-end. I know this is not supported as of yet, however, I can get everything set up using the insmod option with card=20 (Hauppauge WinTV-HVR-1255). This recognizes everything except the model #, which is 85721. I loaded the V4L-DVB drivers as well as the DTV drivers and tried to do a channel scan, which says it will create a channels.conf file for xine. It runs through the scan, looks like it finds channels, then errors out at the end. Xine finds the tuner, but needs the channels.conf to work. I need to find a way to create the channels.conf file. Any suggestions?

My info:

dmesg:

[ 58.176331] cx23885 driver version 0.0.2 loaded
[ 58.176448] cx23885 0000:04:00.0: PCI INT A -> Link[LN3A] -> GSI 17 (level, l
ow) -> IRQ 17
[ 58.176674] CORE cx23885[0]: subsystem: 0070:8551, board: Hauppauge WinTV-HVR
1255 [card=20,insmod option]
[ 58.323936] tveeprom 1-0050: Hauppauge model 85721, rev C4F5, serial# 5303351
[ 58.323939] tveeprom 1-0050: MAC address is 00-0D-FE-50-EC-37
[ 58.323941] tveeprom 1-0050: tuner model is NXP 18271C2 (idx 155, type 54)
[ 58.323943] tveeprom 1-0050: TV standards NTSC(M) ATSC/DVB Digital (eeprom 0x
88)
[ 58.323945] tveeprom 1-0050: audio processor is CX23888 (idx 40)
[ 58.323947] tveeprom 1-0050: decoder processor is CX23888 (idx 34)
[ 58.323948] tveeprom 1-0050: has no radio
[ 58.323949] cx23885[0]: warning: unknown hauppauge model #85721
[ 58.323951] cx23885[0]: hauppauge eeprom: model=85721
[ 58.323953] cx23885_dvb_register() allocating 1 frontend(s)
[ 58.323955] cx23885[0]: cx23885 based dvb card
[ 58.616024] tda18271 2-0060: creating new instance
[ 58.618047] TDA18271HD/C2 detected @ 2-0060
[ 58.960695] DVB: registering new adapter (cx23885[0])
[ 58.960699] DVB: registering adapter 0 frontend 0 (Samsung S5H1411 QAM/8VSB F
rontend)...
[ 58.960883] cx23885_dev_checkrevision() New hardware revision found 0x0
[ 58.960885] cx23885_dev_checkrevision() Hardware revision unknown 0x0
[ 58.960891] cx23885[0]/0: found at 0000:04:00.0, rev: 4, irq: 17, latency: 0,
mmio: 0xfea00000
[ 58.960898] cx23885 0000:04:00.0: setting latency timer to 64
[ 58.960901] IRQ 17/cx23885[0]: IRQF_DISABLED is not guaranteed on shared IRQs
[ 403.765890] cx23885 0000:04:00.0: PCI INT A disabled
[ 403.766285] tda18271 2-0060: destroying instance
[ 403.799640] cx23885 driver version 0.0.2 loaded
[ 403.799998] cx23885 0000:04:00.0: PCI INT A -> Link[LN3A] -> GSI 17 (level, l
ow) -> IRQ 17
[ 403.800794] CORE cx23885[0]: subsystem: 0070:8551, board: Hauppauge WinTV-HVR
1255 [card=20,insmod option]
[ 403.948869] tveeprom 1-0050: Hauppauge model 85721, rev C4F5, serial# 5303351
[ 403.948877] tveeprom 1-0050: MAC address is 00-0D-FE-50-EC-37
[ 403.948884] tveeprom 1-0050: tuner model is NXP 18271C2 (idx 155, type 54)
[ 403.948891] tveeprom 1-0050: TV standards NTSC(M) ATSC/DVB Digital (eeprom 0x
88)
[ 403.948897] tveeprom 1-0050: audio processor is CX23888 (idx 40)
[ 403.948903] tveeprom 1-0050: decoder processor is CX23888 (idx 34)
[ 403.948908] tveeprom 1-0050: has no radio
[ 403.948912] cx23885[0]: warning: unknown hauppauge model #85721
[ 403.948917] cx23885[0]: hauppauge eeprom: model=85721
[ 403.948922] cx23885_dvb_register() allocating 1 frontend(s)
[ 403.948928] cx23885[0]: cx23885 based dvb card
[ 403.996449] tda18271 2-0060: creating new instance
[ 403.998469] TDA18271HD/C2 detected @ 2-0060
[ 404.330720] DVB: registering new adapter (cx23885[0])
[ 404.330730] DVB: registering adapter 0 frontend 0 (Samsung S5H1411 QAM/8VSB F
rontend)...
[ 404.331211] cx23885_dev_checkrevision() New hardware revision found 0x0
[ 404.331218] cx23885_dev_checkrevision() Hardware revision unknown 0x0
[ 404.331229] cx23885[0]/0: found at 0000:04:00.0, rev: 4, irq: 17, latency: 0,
mmio: 0xfea00000
[ 404.331242] cx23885 0000:04:00.0: setting latency timer to 64
[ 404.331250] IRQ 17/cx23885[0]: IRQF_DISABLED is not guaranteed on shared IRQs
[ 1631.380513] tda18271: performing RF tracking filter calibration
[ 1633.270226] tda18271: RF tracking filter calibration complete
[ 2971.547911] DVB: adapter 0 frontend 0 frequency 863000000 out of range (54000
000..858000000)
[ 5052.596057] DVB: adapter 0 frontend 0 frequency 863000000 out of range (54000
000..858000000)


lspci:

04:00.0 Multimedia video controller: Conexant Systems, Inc. Hauppauge Inc. HDPVR-1250 model 1196 (rev 04)


Thanks in advance for any suggestions.

Nobody responds, so I'll guess...

Has nobody made an internet posting of a version of a channel.conf file for their 1255 or some other 1250 series that you could edit and use? I assume that you could find the frequency information for the input channels and write it in.

What scan command did you use, as "su", "w_scan -fa" for a digital signal?

You had success with "card=20", but would there be any other designation number that lets the card function and might let you configure the channels?

"lspci" sees this card as a 1250, so I thought that you might try other 1250 variants.

I know little about this, but at least this post might attract someone who knows more, someone with a better idea.

Thank you for your reply. I've tried all the other HVR cards that are on the list. The 1255 is the only one that doesn't error out. I'm working with a guy at Mercurial that hopefully will add my actual card to the card list, so we'll see what happens.

But, I can always use input from any interested parties ;-)