[SOLVED] Has anyone got Hauppauge HVR 1600 working?

[GhettoYhetti]

I know it is kind of late for entering this post. I just finished installing MythTv on my former MCE machine(F^^K winders...) I am having the same issue. I am kind of looking down the avenue of hardware conflicts. Is there (i am sure there is) a command I can type to give me all of my hardware information and start looking for conflicts? I have only had my Myth box up for 1 day now and so far it is worth the hassle I might add, but let me finish by saying I build a Vista MCE box. You guys can stop laughing anytime...

lspci should help you out.

[sofasurfer]

Farbi.
>The Card worked three days ago... Did a scan for channels overnight and next >day card >wouldn't respond. Rebooted thinking it might help (old windows >habits die hard) and got this error.

At one point, long ago, my card stopped functioning also. For weeks I tried to get it running. No success. Then I decided to reinstall Ubuntu. Still no success. Then I tried this... I removed the card, reinstalled Ubuntu, reinstalled the card, success. Its another old Windows trick.

Try this. Shut down computer, remove your card, restart computer with card removed, shutdown computer, reinstall card and then restart computer with card installed.

I'm probably the last person to take advice from on this subject but...

By the way, I moved to 8.10 and the card is recognized immediately. I use it with Mplayer. Haven't gotten Myth working yet. Its as complicated as the 1600 card.

Let us know what happens.

[Farbi]

Thanks for the reply, and the suggestion. Just recently came back from a horrific hardware failure (just about everything died, MB, HD, Proc (large black burn marks) video card, the 1600 survived though, go figure...) anyhow now that I'm running 8.10 it is good for me as well.

Again,
Thanks for the reply, and the suggestion I'll give that a go if it stops working again

Farbish

[neumann63]

Hi to all,

this card really frustrates me.
Perhaps some of you guys can help me.
Here first some data.

Operation system:Ubuntu 8.10 (Kernel:2.6.27-9-generic)
Grafik-card:NVidia 8400 GS
First DVB Card: Hauppauge Nexus-S
Second DVB Card: Hauppauge HVR-1600
Desired Recorder: VDR

Due to dmesg | grep cx18 everthing seems to be alright. Correct ??

root@family-desktop:/home/neumann# dmesg | grep cx18
[   12.914248] cx18:  Start initialization, version 1.0.3
[   12.914300] cx18-0: Initializing card #0
[   12.914304] cx18-0: Autodetected Hauppauge card
[   12.914401] cx18 0000:01:01.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 21 (level, low) -> IRQ 21
[   12.916047] cx18-0: cx23418 revision 01010000 (B)
[   13.152242] cx18-0: Autodetected Hauppauge HVR-1600
[   13.152245] cx18-0: VBI is not yet supported
[   13.293282] tuner 1-0061: chip found @ 0xc2 (cx18 i2c driver #0-1)
[   13.293324] cs5345 0-004c: chip found @ 0x98 (cx18 i2c driver #0-0)
[   13.352078] cx18-0: Disabled encoder IDX device
[   13.352218] cx18-0: Registered device video0 for encoder MPEG (2 MB)
[   13.352223] DVB: registering new adapter (cx18)
[   13.480083] cx18-0: DVB Frontend registered
[   13.480150] cx18-0: Registered device video32 for encoder YUV (2 MB)
[   13.480216] cx18-0: Registered device video24 for encoder PCM audio (1 MB)
[   13.480220] cx18-0: Initialized card #0: Hauppauge HVR-1600
[   13.480395] cx18:  End initialization
[   29.569840] cx18-0: loaded v4l-cx23418-apu.fw firmware V00120000 (141200 bytes)
[   30.346421] cx18-0: loaded v4l-cx23418-cpu.fw firmware (158332 bytes)
[   30.352791] cx18-0: FW version: 0.0.74.0 (Release 2007/03/12)
[   31.938160] cx18-0: loaded v4l-cx23418-dig.fw firmware (16382 bytes)
[  133.816033] Modules linked in: af_packet binfmt_misc bridge stp bnep rfcomm sco l2cap bluetooth ppdev ipv6 acpi_cpufreq cpufreq_userspace cpufreq_stats cpufreq_powersave cpufreq_ondemand freq_table cpufreq_conservative wmi video output sbs sbshc pci_slot container battery iptable_filter ip_tables x_tables ac lp stv0299 ves1x93 mxl5005s s5h1409 tuner_simple tuner_types cs5345 tuner snd_hda_intel dvb_ttpci snd_pcm_oss snd_mixer_oss snd_pcm cx18 snd_seq_dummy dvb_core saa7146_vv compat_ioctl32 snd_seq_oss saa7146 joydev i2c_algo_bit cx2341x videobuf_dma_sg videobuf_core evdev videodev snd_seq_midi v4l2_common tveeprom v4l1_compat ttpci_eeprom pcspkr snd_rawmidi atl2 nvidia(P) snd_seq_midi_event parport_pc parport i2c_core snd_seq snd_timer snd_seq_device button intel_agp snd iTCO_wdt agpgart iTCO_vendor_support soundcore shpchp pci_hotplug snd_page_alloc ext2 mbcache sr_mod cdrom sd_mod crc_t10dif sg usbhid hid ata_piix pata_acpi ata_generic libata scsi_mod dock ehci_hcd uhci_hcd usbcore thermal processor fan fbcon tileblit font bitblit softcursor fuse

I deactivate my VDR-System (/etc/init.d/vdr stop) and let w_scan run

root@family-desktop:/home/neumann#  w_scan -f a -A 2 -i 2 -O 0 -X >>/var/lib/vdr/channels.conf.czap4
w_scan version 20081106
Info: using DVB adapter auto detection.
   Found ATSC frontend. Using adapter /dev/dvb/adapter0/frontend0
-_-_-_-_ Getting frontend capabilities-_-_-_-_ 
frontend Samsung S5H1409 QAM/8VSB Frontend supports
FE_CAN_8VSB
FE_CAN_QAM_64
FE_CAN_QAM_256
-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_ 
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597000: no signal(0x00)
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tune to: 
----------no signal----------
tune to:  (no signal)
----------no signal----------
tune to: 
Info: filter timeout pid 0x0000
Info: filter timeout pid 0x1ffb
tune to: 
WARNING: descriptor_tag == 0x80, len is 0
WARNING: descriptor_tag == 0x80, len is 0
Info: filter timeout pid 0x1ffb
tune to: 
Info: filter timeout pid 0x1ffb
tune to: 
Info: filter timeout pid 0x1ffb
tune to: 
Info: filter timeout pid 0x1ffb
tune to: 
Info: filter timeout pid 0x1ffb
tune to: 
service is running. Channel number: 1008:0. Name: ''
service is running. Channel number: 1008:0. Name: ''
tune to: 
service is running. Channel number: 1008:0. Name: ''
service is running. Channel number: 1008:0. Name: ''
service is running. Channel number: 1008:0. Name: ''
service is running. Channel number: 1008:0. Name: ''
tune to: 
Info: filter timeout pid 0x1ffb
tune to: 
----------no signal----------
tune to:  (no signal)
service is running. Channel number: 1008:0. Name: ''
tune to: 
----------no signal----------
tune to:  (no signal)
----------no signal----------
dumping lists (107 services)
Done.

For me this looks like w_scan finds some channels and it confirms that /dev/dvb/adapter0/frontend0 is my ATSC device.

Changing the channels.conf a little bit. The starting czap it tells me that my card is not QAM-device. Can someone help me on this ??

root@family-desktop:/home/neumann# czap -a 0 -f 0 -d 0  -c /var/lib/vdr/channels.conf.czap4 [0139]
using '/dev/dvb/adapter0/frontend0' and '/dev/dvb/adapter0/demux0'
 37 [0139]:603000000:INVERSION_OFF:0:FEC_NONE:QAM_256:289:290:313
 37 [0139]: f 603000000, s 0, i 0, fec 0, qam 5, v 0x121, a 0x122
ERROR: frontend device is not a QAM (DVB-C) device

I tried my luck with other programs like mplayer but there I have only
some funny snow-storm-pictures (this seems to be the analog site).
And with vlc I tried a lot of things too. No Success.

I really don't know whats wrong. But why seems the scan to work ??

I really need some help.

Mike

[fryed_1]

FYI I found that the module: lirc_pvr150 was interfering with the cx18 module trying to unload. It appears to be the blaster module. When I commented it out in /etc/lircd/hardware.conf it loaded without issue. Granted I lost control of my blaster... but now I have HD working, so it's better for me in the short run since the only reason I was using the blaster was for controlling my HD box until I got HD working within the tuner.

[RGPerson]

Willoconley or anyone, I could use some help. Tried installing the drivers and firmware as instructed at http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Hauppauge_HVR-1600

but after I shutdown as instructed, we have a severly screwed up GUI. It's so distorted nothing can be done. I was able to boot with the Terminal and that's where I am now.

To get your hauppuage card working:

# go to tty1, to remove the old firmware you installed
$ sudo /etc/init.d/?dm stop

I did this. Nothing appeared to happen. Maybe it did. Went on.

$ cd pathToV4LDir # in my case ~/v4l*

Couldn't even get this far. I had downloaded and extracted the drivers to the tmp folder. (tmp/HVR1600 to be exact, and then renamed the next folder as V4l-dvb) It couldn't be found. I did a dir of tmp and there were only a few folders in there, none of which were HVR1600

Can someone give me a command to download them again to a better place? And to extract them. I'm not the best person for the command line.

Is that it below?

$ sudo make unload
$ sudo make install -r

# you can now, if you want
$ sudo /etc/init.d/?dm start
# and go back to tty7
$ sudo apt-get install mercurial linux-headers-$(uname -r) build-essential
$ hg clone http://linuxtv.org/hg/v4l-dvb
$ cd ~/v4l*
$ sudo make
$ sudo make install

now after you copy those firmware files you posted about earlier to /lib/firmware/*currentKernel*

$ sudo reboot

I skipped all that for now as I can't seem to undo what I'd already done before I can start fresh.

But on a lark, I did the next bit:

$ dmesg | grep cx18
# near the end should say something like:
[ 42.230394] cx18-0: Initialized card #0: Hauppauge HVR-1600

...and I did get pretty much what willoconley put there. It seems the card did make it.

I don't have an nVidia card. We have an ATI Radeon 4550. The computer is a Dell Inspiron 530N, dual-core with 4GB of memory and a 320GB hard drive.

I'd very much appreciate any help on this.

Gabrielle

[RGPerson]

Well some progress or at least maybe a clue.

We got an old monitor out of the closet and hooked it up. We have GUI there. It's low res (800x600 or 640x480) but it's there.

Could the HVR-1600 drivers or firmware have messed with out ATI Radeon 4550's drivers/firmware? We normally (and would prefer to) use our LCD TV as the monitor as this computer is to be our TV.

On the not so progress side, we can't even boot to the terminal with the TV now. All we have is a black screen. Did see the Dell logo and the GRUB, saw Starting Up... and then black.

Update: for some reason, we have a GUI again with the TV as monitor. We're stuck in low resolution with not a lot of colors. I'm really suspecting the HVR driver or firmware install messed with the Radeon. Should I try to reinstall the latter?


Gabrielle