MythTV backend - any hope to get my PVR-250 working?

[Torfinn Ingolfsen]

On Sat, 16 Apr 2011 07:59:22 -0500
Saul A Peebsen <jaglover at gmail.com> wrote:

> Let me ask, is multimedia/pvr250 supposed to create just one node [cxm]
> or there is supposed to be more?

Depends on the card in question, but in general, one /dev/cxm? per tuner.
Here is my PVR-350 card:
root at kg-quiet# uname -a
FreeBSD kg-quiet.kg4.no 8.2-STABLE FreeBSD 8.2-STABLE #0: Sun Apr  3 19:49:05 CEST 2011     root at kg-quiet.kg4.no:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC  amd64
root at kg-quiet# portversion -v | grep pvr
pvr250-20101010_1           =  up-to-date with port 
root at kg-quiet# grep cxm /var/log/messages
Apr 15 22:12:08 kg-quiet kernel: cxm0: <Conexant iTVC15 MPEG Coder> mem 0xf8000000-0xfbffffff irq 20 at device 0.0 on pci2
Apr 15 22:12:08 kg-quiet kernel: cxm_iic0: <Conexant iTVC15 / iTVC16 I2C controller> on cxm0
Apr 15 22:12:08 kg-quiet kernel: iicbb0: <I2C bit-banging driver> on cxm_iic0
Apr 15 22:12:08 kg-quiet kernel: cxm0: Philips FM1216ME MK3 tuner
Apr 15 22:12:08 kg-quiet kernel: cxm0: SAA7115 rev 1 video decoder
Apr 15 22:12:08 kg-quiet kernel: cxm0: MSP4418G-B3 audio decoder
Apr 15 22:12:08 kg-quiet kernel: cxm0: IR Remote
Apr 15 22:12:08 kg-quiet kernel: cxm0: [GIANT-LOCKED]
Apr 15 22:12:08 kg-quiet kernel: cxm0: [ITHREAD]
Apr 15 22:12:08 kg-quiet kernel: cxm0: encoder firmware version 0x2050032
Apr 15 22:12:08 kg-quiet kernel: cxm0: decoder firmware version 0x2020023
root at kg-quiet# ls -l /dev/cxm*
crw-rw-rw-  1 root  wheel    0, 126 Apr 15 22:12 /dev/cxm0

HTH
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Torfinn