[SOLVED] 1004 DVB cards - missing drivers

[b4rney]

Hi All,
Just did a clean install from the latest snapshot (1st July). My tuners aren't detected/working for mythtv. Do I need to add drivers. I assumed they would be auto-detected as they both work in 0810.

I have a:
1. Kworld KW-DVB-T 399U USB
2. HVR2200 PCIe DVB-T
Both worked fine in 0810

Cheers,
Barney

dmesg

Code:

root@dcerouter:/# dmesg | grep dvb
[   14.504256] dvb-usb: found a 'KWorld PlusTV Dual DVB-T Stick (DVB-T 399U)' in cold state, will try to load a firmware
[   14.504263] usb 2-1: firmware: requesting dvb-usb-af9015.fw
[   14.519445] dvb-usb: did not find the firmware file. (dvb-usb-af9015.fw) Please see linux/Documentation/dvb/ for more details on firmware-problems. (-2)
[   14.519544] dvb_usb_af9015: probe of 2-1:1.0 failed with error -2
[   14.519566] usbcore: registered new interface driver dvb_usb_af9015

lsmod

Code:

root@dcerouter:/# lsmod | grep dvb
dvb_usb_af9015         23159  0
dvb_usb                14457  1 dvb_usb_af9015
dvb_core               86206  2 dvb_usb,saa7164

[l3mce]

Please sudo apt-get install linux-firmware-nonfree and tell me if this resolves your issue.

[b4rney]

OK. That worked for one of the cards (kworld usb).

Mythtv is a bit hit and miss. Keeps crashing, but might be poor signal with that device as it only picked up a few channels.

Thanks l3mce
Barney

[l3mce]

Please follow this if you haven't yet until a fix is applied.

http://forum.linuxmce.org/index.php/topic,12659.msg90402.html#msg90402

[b4rney]

Thanks again l3mce.

Turns out I didn't have the firmware for the HVR2200. Got it as follows:

Code:

cd /lib/firmware/
wget http://steventoth.net/linux/hvr22xx/firmwares/3978608/v4l-saa7164-1.0.3.fw

After reboot it got detected and now it works. Will rescan and try the above fix if it's still flaky.
Barney

[b4rney]

OK. Still flaky so applied the above fix.

MythTV is definitely better. I can play on the core and an md that have had the fix. Still having some problems with encoders/mythfill database. Can't delete encoders using:
computing->mythTV setup

If I do they just re-appear when I go back in. At the moment I have 4 encoders showing in mythweb but I'm only using the HVR2200 twin tuner.

This is probably better in another thread though. I'll keep playing.

l3mce's suggestions have all more or less worked for me. That plus finding the missing firmware.
Thank you.
Barney