well

i got mandrake 10 beta1 installed on an old dell p2 350 and put the tv card in - no result

however

i haven't yet tried to install the cx88 drivers on it

being less technical than this task requires I was kind of waiting for a distro with the appropriate drivers so I can sort it that way

and the telly schedules in the UK at the moment are laughable

(or am i just getting older???)


this is the last obstacle to win-doh's being removed

one day,
oh yes one day...

well

i got mandrake 10 beta1 installed on an old dell p2 350 and put the tv card in - no result

however

i haven't yet tried to install the cx88 drivers on it

i did install the 2.6 kernel onto mandrake 9.2 but once again the drivers didn't work or gave unresolved symbol error mesages
this 2.6 installation was done by installing the rpm and NOT by compiling the source

being less technical than this task requires I was kind of waiting for a distro with the appropriate drivers so I can sort it that way

and the telly schedules in the UK at the moment are laughable

(or am i just getting older???)


this is the last obstacle to win-doh's being removed

one day,
oh yes one day...

Didn't you try "modprobe cx8800" as root ? And then try to launch xawtv...2.6 kernel and laters must be patched with the cx88 driver.
On my system, I tried to move (physically) the card, that was close to the Gforce4 mx ('read it could solve some freeze problems)...it didn't change anything. Upgrade of both xawtv and Xfree but it's always the same : xawtv starts, picture and sound ok on video composite input, colors are OK, but after a few secondes, all freezes and hard reboot is needed.
My system :

Mandrake 9.2
kernel : 2.6.2-3mdk
Xfree 4.3
hauppauge wintvgo2 (conexant cx88 chip)
Gforce 4MX

...waiting for providential help :-)

i tried with the 2.6 test source and compiled it
no luck
so went back and did it again with the cx88 drivers in the appropriate folder
still no luck
there was a note on the drivers site that said
"if you get unresolved symbol errors then just blah blah blah
i didn't understand the blah blah blah
below was a link to the "kernel how-to"
great i thought and clicked on it

"the kernel how to has been removed"


at this point i gave up and thought
I'll wait for a distro that DEFINITELY has support for this card

i am hoping that mandrake 10.0 will have this support when it comes out

I am happy to report that I now have this card working under mandrake10 with 2.6.3-7 kernel. The solution to my long term prob was I needed to modprobe cx8800 first.

Didn't have much luck with xawtv so i tried TVTime. Once I'd set the settings for my region etc and scanned the TV channels it started working. I know many people have had probs getting this card to work so feel free to PM me if you want to check settings etc.

that's quite encouraging to hear

the best I've got so far is sort of colour with no sound on fedora core 2 (kernel 2.6.6)

will have a fiddle with it under mandrake later

Well I first tried on my spare PC and I got picture but no audio, but I put that down to my shitty sound card in that PC. It doesn't actually use the audio module as it says unkown in Mandrake Control Center. Instead, audio gets pumped through the audio-out cable into the soundcard digital input. I then adjust volume levels using the Line in control in Kmixer.

I've had another play with Xawtv but I can't get it to work at all. I tried the scantv command and it falls over when it gets to:

vbi: open failed [/dev/v4l/vbi0]
open /dev/v4l/vbi0: No such file or directory

Which is a pity really because TVtime doesn't have a record facility which I would really like. I guess I'll maybe have a look into mythtv when I get time.

Well rather than start a new thread I thought I'd post in this one since it's related.

WTF! WTF! WTF! WTF is going on with my tv tuner card? First it doesn't work, then it does, then it doesn't, then I can't startx because the nvidia drivers are messed up. Yay! We're in for some fun! Not! :P

Okay so has anyone else experienced this? I'm using Mdk10Official with kernel 2.6.3-13mdk (soon to be 2.6.3-14mdk) and I go to try tvtime with my old Hauppauge WinTV-Go PCI card and it just shows a blue screen mocking me with the no signal message. So I try xawtv and nothing.. doesn't even come up. So I go to System->Configuration->Configure Your Computer->Hardware->Tv card and it says auto-detect for card model and tuner type, so I just click OK, and then on the next part I select the settings for my area (NTSC/USA (cable) and then I come to the user selection box.. Well there's:

Nobody
auseraccount
root

Nobody? Who is nobody? And why is that one of the choices? So I choose the useraccount on my system and I forget what exactly happened but it didn't work.. so I shutdown the system and later when I had turned it back on, went through login, I was greeted by an error following startx that said it couldn't load my nvidia modules/drivers/whatever. Great! Thanks! So now I had to go and revert the settings back in my /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 file so I could get back into KDE without the error message bouncing me back to CLI. So now I can't use my tv tuner card AND I can't use my nvidia card. Can anyone tell me what happened here and why it borked my nvidia settings somewhere?

So I try this again, going into System->Configuration->Configure Your Computer->Hardware->Tv card and this time selecting the "Nobody" selection under user. Well it finds the channels on TV and goes through them detecting them, then adds a shortcut to my desktop for xawtv, and what do you know Tvtime and xawtv both work! I can go up and down the cable TV channels and watch whatever UNTIL I REBOOT/SHUTDOWN+RESTART the system! And then it's back to square one, no shortcut on my desktop for xawtv, and my nvidia drivers/modules/whatever are STILL borked.

So I can go into System->Configuration->Configure Your Computer->Hardware->Tv card and choose the Nobody user and have it go all through the detecting of channels again and eventually watch TV for awhile until the next reboot/shutdown+restart of the system but my nvidia drivers are still not working right.

I did find a temporary solution with the nvidia card.. someone recommended (not on these forums but elsewhere) that I remove my kernel-sources and reinstall them.. followed by removing my nvidia drivers and re-installing them. So I did that and it worked but later I booted up to the same error message with the nvidia drivers/modules/whatever not working.

So to this I say.. WTF!

What is going on? Can anyone please tell me what I am doing wrong? I'd like to blame my system for this or a particular program but I know it's something I'm doing or not doing.. it has to be.

Please help! Thanks for reading, and please excuse the amount of mindless WTF's in my post..I'm sick and cranky this week. :P

I also have a Hauppage PCI TV card, but I got it 2-3 years ago so I don't know which version I have. It works perfectly in my Mandrake 9.1 with kernel 2.4.21. I just installed Mandrake 9.1, saw the XawTV icon my desktop and double clicked it and BAM, I got cable TV.

Hello!
I had same problem as furfurdemon with my Pinnacle TVcard and Nvidia driver. I put nvidia and bttv lines in file /etc/modprobe.preload and no problems anymore. I don't know, if bttv is the correct module for Hauppauge: if it isn't, then you must put in /etc/modprobe.preload-file correct module for your card.
Hope this is usefull for someone.

It's great that you were able to get it working with mdk9.1 & kernel 2.4.21, maybe this will be helpful for others who choose to use an older version of mdk & kernel. However in my case I'm trying to get it working with Mandrake 10 Official and kernel 2.6.3-14mdk and I cannot revert to an older version of Mandrake & kernel. Thanks for your post.

Very interesting. What version of Mandrake and kernel are you using? I'm glad you were able to find a solution to your problem. So it did the same thing for you, with the nvidia error message and all? It works great now without any nvidia errors? Does this setup survive reboots without problem? Thanks for your post.

For anyone who is reading this and uses a Hauppauge WinTV-Go PCI with Mandrake 10 Official, what would I add to /etc/modprobe.preload to get the card working without having to go into the autodetect section as I described earlier in my post to this thread? If myr solved his/her problem this easily, can it be done with the tv tuner card I mention? I'm using nvidia as well, as I also mentioned. Thanks for reading, I appreciate any replies.

well
i can't get more than three channels (out of the possible 5) in black and white with no sound.

If I put tvtime into Debug mode I get sound on the currently selected channel but it wont move to another channel.

At this rate the PCI Bus will be obsolete by the time the Linux drivers arrive!!!

Hello!
My distro is Mandrake 10 Official with 2.6.3-7mdk kernel and my problem was same with nVidia errors etc. as furfurdemon. Now all works fine; no booting problems. I think you can try this same trick with /etc/modprobe.preload as I did, if your HauppaugeTV-card have bt 848 or 878 chipset.

I am in a slightly diffrenet position to you as I have a direct feed from my cable set top box so I only ever need to tune into one channel. I also have the same prob where I only get sound when I go into debug mode and connot change channel. Maybe this is something to do with our card not having an audio tuner but rather an audio output directly into the sound card. You mention black and white pictures. Well my colour isn't brilliant but it is reasonable. One thing I have noticed it that I cannot change the hue and colour settings. Both are set to zero. I have tried editting these in the various tvtime config files but to no avail. Maybe this is down to my crap video card (TNT2 RIVA M64).

In another post I mentioned I was having problems with Xawtv. I managed to overcome this by launching it as: xawtv -device /dev/video0

I can get sound this way but I do consider Xawtv to be extremely inferior to tvtime. I have also tried recording some video with Xawtv. It seems to generate the files ok but for some reason I cannot play them with any player program. I know this is not a codec problem as I have tried with Mplayer, Xine, Totem etc...

I had a working ov511 webcam running under Mandrake 2005.
I am having trouble after upgrading to Mdv 2007, please help.

$ xawtv -c /dev/video0
This is xawtv-3.95, running on Linux/i686 (2.6.17-5mdv)
can't open /dev/video0: No such device
v4l-conf had some trouble, trying to continue anyway
v4l2: open /dev/video0: No such device
v4l2: open /dev/video0: No such device
v4l: open /dev/video0: No such device
no video grabber device available

# cd /dev/v4l
# ls -l
total 0
crw-rw---- 1 chitta_local video 81, 0 Nov 7 17:53 video0

# lsmod | grep ov
ov511_alt 91720 0
ovcamchip 21832 0
i2c_core 17536 2 ov511_alt,ovcamchip
v4l2_common 15648 1 ov511_alt
compat_ioctl32 1952 1 ov511_alt
videodev 8064 1 ov511_alt
usbcore 113472 10 usblp,ov511_alt,usbhid,usb_storage,ueagle_atm,usbatm,ehci_hcd,uhci_hcd

# lsmod | grep vid
video 13924 0
videodev 8064 1 ov511_alt

# lsmod | grep v4l
v4l2_common 15648 1 ov511_alt