Tvtime & Hauppauge Win TV Express problems
Jeff Vian
jvian10 at charter.net
Mon Sep 18 23:39:33 UTC 2006
On Mon, 2006-09-18 at 22:42 +0200, nigel henry wrote:
> I think I've broken Tvtime twice. On FC2, and then on Kubuntu.
>
> The TV tuner card is Hauppauge Win TV Express, and has a Conexant Fusion 878a
> chip.
>
Why not try a newer release of the OS?
I just installed a WinTV Go card on a box with FC5 and TVTime works
flawlessly. I admit that I am in the US and thus using NTSC and not
SECAM but that is related to the tuner/driver and not the display.
> Tvtime is from Dag's repo, and is version-1.0.2-1.1.fc2.rf
>
> I put the card in the machine, an Aiii-Friend 1.3GHZ (Celeron) , with 1GB RAM.
> Installed Tvtime from Dag's repo onto FC2.
>
> All I got when running Tvtime was a blue screen, showing a "no signal",
> channel numbers, and that it was set for "Television". Channel scanning
> produced nothing, even with messing with the menu, changing between PAL, and
> SECAM, and changing the frequencies between France, and Europe.
>
FC5 has tvtime in the core repo (at least for the x86_64 architecture)
> I now booted up Kubuntu, on the same machine, and installed Tvtime. Same
> situation.
>
> Right. It's supposed to work on Windoze, so I booted up XP on this machine.
> Now I havn't used it for some time, and have Diamond CS's Process Guard
> installed on it, so had some problems installing the Tv tuners drivers onto
> XP, as Process Guard keeps asking for permission to allow, and this seems to
> interrupt the installation of the drivers, resulting in XP giving me a
> "Houston I think we have a problem" sort of reply. So I disable Process Guard
> (temporarily), then the drivers are installed. Then I continue with
> installing the Win TV viewer that comes on the CDROM for the Hauppauge card.
>
> After some messing with scanning for channels, I find the 3 french channels,
> and the 2 belgian channels, plus some sound, and terrible graphics for 2 of
> the 4 UK channels that I get in Northern France.
>
> Right. XP has verified that there is no problem with the card, and can even
> get FM radio from this Hauppauge card on XP.
>
> OK. I know that the card works, the picture isn't fantastic, but that's life.
> Now back into FC2. I now play Tvtimes menu like one plays the piano, trying
> every option, and this is where I think I've screwed it up, but I am getting
> a bit annoyed by now.
>
> I now have a window for Tvtime. I can change the channels using the up and
> down arrows, and they show up in the title bar, but can only see pink and
> bluey green horizontal lines. The tab key which should bring up the menu
> appears to work, but I can't see it. Pressing "q" clears the unviewable menu,
> and pressing "q" again quits Tvtime.
>
> I've removed Tvtime from the system using synaptic, but when I reinstall it I
> get the same as before I uninstalled it.
>
> I'm at a bit of a loss. It would appear that changes that I made in Tvtime's
> menu options, have made changes in files that have nothing to do with TVtime.
>
> Not that it this is much interest on the list, but on Kubuntu, after messing
> with Tvtimes menu, I now have, when I disable signal detect, a green screen
> with a very small area (perhaps an eighth of an inch ) of pixel soup at the
> top of the screen. Enabling signal detect again, brings me back to the
> default screen, showing "no signal" , channel #'s on the left, and
> "Television" on the right.
>
> /sbin/lspci (on FC2)
> 00:0a.0 Multimedia video controller: Brooktree Corporation Bt878 Video Capture
> (rev 11)
> Subsystem: Hauppauge computer works Inc. WinTV Series
> Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr-
> Stepping- SERR- FastB2B-
> Status: Cap+ 66Mhz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort-
> <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
> Latency: 32 (4000ns min, 10000ns max)
> Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 10
> Region 0: Memory at e7005000 (32-bit, prefetchable)
> Capabilities: <available only to root>
>
> 00:0a.1 Multimedia controller: Brooktree Corporation Bt878 Audio Capture (rev
> 11)
> Subsystem: Hauppauge computer works Inc. WinTV Series
> Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr-
> Stepping- SERR- FastB2B-
> Status: Cap+ 66Mhz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort-
> <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
> Latency: 32 (1000ns min, 63750ns max)
> Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 9
> Region 0: Memory at e7006000 (32-bit, prefetchable)
> Capabilities: <available only to root>
>
>
> This is the first part of lsmod, which shows the modules loaded for the
> Hauppauge card.
>
> [djmons at localhost djmons]$ /sbin/lsmod
>
> Module Size Used by
> nls_utf8 2241 0
> udf 75589 0
> tuner 19821 0
> tda9887 12889 0
> tvaudio 20321 0
> bttv 150033 0
> video_buf 21829 1 bttv
> i2c_algo_bit 8521 1 bttv
> v4l2_common 5825 1 bttv
> btcx_risc 4681 1 bttv
> i2c_core 21057 5 tuner,tda9887,tvaudio,bttv,i2c_algo_bit
> videodev 9409 1 bttv
>
> I'd be happy for any suggestions, including, just go upstairs to watch the TV,
> but it would be nice to get this card working on something other that
> Windoze.
>
> BTW. On both FC2, and Kubuntu, CPU useage is redlining with TVtime.
>
> Nigel.
>
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