Talk:Hauppauge HVR-1800

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Linux (gutsy gibbon) wont detect the card with HAL, neither will mythtv...

How do you setup a DVB card and how do you update and get latest v4l-dvb drivers?

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I just added one of those cards to my system last week.What I had to do was install the latest v4l-dvb drivers. I am running fedora 6 with a 2.6.22 kernel. I followed the instructions on the v4l-dvb wiki at: How to install DVB device drivers

The steps boil down to:

  1. install mercurial (the source control system v4l uses), and the kernel headers
  2. get a copy of the latest source code using mercurial
  3. compile
  4. install the newly compiled drivers
  5. remove old modules from memory and load new ones (reboot is the easiest way to do that)
  6. they have a step about firmware, but the HVR-1800 does not require any

For full disclosure I must indicate that I did have some problems at first with the driver not loading. But as I was messing with it I had some unrelated problems (hardware failure) and when I got the system back up (with a new power supply and motherboard) it just worked.

Vjorand

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Did what you suggested... Worked great for the HVR-1800, but my two other hauppauge PVR-150's were no longer detected in Myth after the reboot. I tried "sudo make rminstall", but no joy, even after reboot. only difference was that HVR-1800 was not detected anymore. As soon as I reinstall v4l-dvb myth detects it, but not the 150's. Since I couldn't find a way to roll back I had to reinstall the OS..

I'm running on Ubuntu 7.10 gutsy, with a 2.6.22-14-generic kernel on a AMD Athlon 64 X2 4000+

Any Idea when the analogue and digital tunners on HVR-1800 will be both supported on MythTv?

sythious

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I have 2 PVR-250s in my box and did not have any problems with them after installing the HVR-1800. I am sorry I cannot be of more help. You may want to try the #linuxtv irc channel.

Vjorand

Broadcast Flag

Several of the other HDTV capture cards' pages have a field showing whether or not they will honor the broadcast flag. Does anyone know if the 1800 will or not?

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