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Carlos Robinson <robin.listas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> changed:

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--- Comment #4 from Carlos Robinson <robin.listas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>  2007-10-15 
16:32:19 MST ---
Er... no. Sorry, I should have reported already, I have some news.

I first got the firmware hidden in the manufacturer CD, then I also got it from
some rpm that was installed later (I forget which, right now I'm running 10.2,
can't check). The log on #1 shows it is correct:

02:44:03 minas-morgul kernel: cx88[0]/2-bb: Firmware upload successful.
02:44:03 minas-morgul kernel: cx88[0]/2-bb: Firmware version is 0x02060039

The problem is the analog tuner. I got some advice from the V4L mail list
(https://www.redhat.com/mailman/private/video4linux-list/2007-October/msg00064.html)

In brief, the advice was:

] Try and edit tveeprom.c and change
]
] { TUNER_ABSENT,        "Philips FMD1216MEX"},
]  with
] { TUNER_PHILIPS_FMD1216ME_MK3,        "Philips FMD1216MEX"},


I had to recompile the kernel to apply that change (three hours), but it
worked, more or less. I reported back to the v4l list:


] This does work, partially:
]
] Yast doesn't find any stations
] kdetv keeps crashing.
] tvtime finds some stations (and uses a lot of cpu)
]
] However, if I edit /etc/X11/xawtvrc adding the channels I keep from my
] old avermedia card, now xawtv can tune those stations - although 
] colours are ugly and quality insuficient.
]
] And no sound at all, and no overlay mode (I had overlay with
] avermedia on this same machine).


But after that I got no further response at all from that mail list, maybe they
don't answer to non-developpers.

At the moment, I'm seriously considering getting a cheap analog only tv card
and do the digital tv decoding externally with a Siemens M740AV I have (which
runs Linux 2.4, by the way).

You see, no analog TV (or I need to patch and recompile the kernel every single
time), and then bad image quality, high cpu usage (overlay mode doesn't
work)... that card is useless to me.

But thank you for your interest. I can still run tests on it if you want, at
least till I replace it :-)


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