[mythtv-users] pcHDTV HD-3000 in the house

[Brandon Beattie]

What type of system are you running?  Jack called me last night and in
talking said that he saw problems with tuning on 64bit kernels, and he's
working on getting this fixed.

--Brandon

On Mon, Nov 08, 2004 at 05:32:18PM -0700, John Patrick Poet wrote:
> 
> Took the afternoon off to play with my new HD-3000 card.
> 
> The "new" drivers that come with it are suppose to support both the 
> HD-2000 and the HD-3000.  Unlike the previous drivers, you do not 
> "patch" your kernel -- you just build and install, and your done.   In 
> theory.
> 
> I have a custom 2.6.7 kernel that I built for my specific hardware.  I 
> tried installing the new "FedoreCore2" drivers against this kernel.  
> Unfortunately, while the HD-3000 is detected, it is not detected 
> correctly and does not work.
> 
> I built a 2.6.9 kernel using the same config (make oldconfig) as I used 
> for my 2.6.7 kernel.  I then installed the "FedoraCore2" drivers against 
> that kernel.  Now the card is detected correctly, and seems to work quit 
> well.
> 
> I did have to add:
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> alias char-major-81-0 bttv
> alias char-major-81-1 cx8800
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> to my /etc/modprobe.conf file.  I did not do that when playing with the 
> 2.6.7 kernel, so I may have to try that kernel again.
> 
> Unfortunately, the "FedoreCore2" drivers do not seem to work correclty 
> with my HD-2000 card.  The BTTV module gets installed just fine, but the 
> card will not tune.  dtvsignal reports a strength of zero, no matter 
> what channel I try to tune the HD-2000 to.  The red LED on the back of 
> the card is also on solid.
> 
> I intially tried to go into mythsetup and just change "/dev/dtv0" to 
> "/dev/dtv1" to get it use the HD-3000.  That did not work quite right 
> for some reason.  I reran mythsetup and told it to "clear all capture 
> card settings".  I then set it up to use "/dev/dtv1", and now Myth is 
> working quite happily.
> 
> While the HD-3000 card is a 3.3v card, it does *not* have the notch near 
> the backplane to allow it to plug into a 3.3v *only* PCI slot.  I 
> noticed this in the picture on the pcHDTV web site, but assumed it was 
> just a mock-up.
> 
> John
> 
> 
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