Getting the hauppage pvr250 card working under 5.2

[Julian Elischer]

On Tue, 18 May 2004, Bruce Campbell wrote:

> 
> For better or for worse, I have a Hauppage PVR250 Wintv card, and I'm
> trying to get it working under FreeBSD 5.2 .
> 
> What I have tried so far is:
> 
> 	John Wehle's cxm code of March 20, 2004 as posted to this list.
> 
> 	hcwpvrp2.sys 1.7? (MD5 f9de6571f8a7afdffb13ffb31adeeada)
> 		cxm0: encoder firmware version 0x2040002
> 		cxm0: decoder firmware version 0x2020001
> 
> 	hcwpvrp2.sys 1.8 (MD5 d157f8ad1dc71ced812307b7cd5ee263)
> 	( Both retrieved from http://www.hauppauge.com/pages/support_pvr250-350.html )
> 		cxm0: encoder firmware version 0x2040011
> 		cxm0: decoder firmware version 0x2020023
> 
> 	The card in various PCI slots (in some slots the module refuses to
> 	load at all) both with and without other PCI cards in place.  The
> 	working solution appears to be the slot next to a vga card in
> 	place, and not the extra ethernet card (3com).
> 
> The end result with the basic code is the expected:
> 
> 	$ cat /dev/cxm0 > /var/tmp/foo.mpg
> 	cat: /dev/cxm0: Device not configured
> 
> After making minor changes to the code for more specific information and
> increasing the loop in cxm_saa7115_wait_for_lock from 10 to 20, then
> further changing the code such that, yes, its ok to ignore the locks in
> the various wait_for_lock routines (all now return 1) and finally
> overriding the frames per second in cxm_saa7115_detected_fps (to 25 in my
> case, 30 in others), I can see static by doing 'mplayer -vo x11 -ao null
> /dev/cxm0':
> 
> 	Default: static.
> 	setchannel -c (known video signal plugged in): black
> 	setchannel -s (no cable): black
> 	setchannel -t 0, 2 to 89: all static
> 		( known signal on channel 6 )
> 		( Cannot change to channels above 89, nor channel 1 )
> 
> Is there something else that I'm missing in order to see video via the TV
> card?

no, but keep working on it.. that way I can swoop in when you've fixed
it all and just buy one and expect it to work :-) :-)

> 
> -- 
>   Bruce Campbell
>   Random hacker.
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