Hauppauge WinTV PVR 350 and SUSE 9.3, /dev/vbi
Hello, has anyone managed to get the Hauppauge WinTV PVR 350 card to work with SUSE 9.3? Especially, on an Athlon64 system. YAST did not work, but after googling I managed to install firmware by extracting it from the supplied windows drivers. Now ivtv detects my card and loads the firmware. However, there seems to be something wrong with my /dev/vbi* files. When I start kdetv, it ends with: kdetv: WARNING: VBIDecoder: vbi_capture_v4l_new error: Sorry, /dev/vbi4 (Vanilla iTVC15 card) cannot capture any of the requested data services. kdetv: WARNING: [VBIDecoder::restart()] no permission to access device kdetv: WARNING: MainWindow::setupInfraRed(): Lirc not available kdetv: WARNING: SaverControl: Error in DCOP communication. Unable to disable KDE Screensaver. kdetv: WARNING: ... failed. kdetv likely does not to work with your device and/or your current filter config. And if I run scantv it looks like this: claes@linux:~> scantv ioctl: VIDIOC_QUERYMENU(id=134217728;index=1;name="44.1 kHz";reserved=176): Invalid argument ioctl: VIDIOC_QUERYMENU(id=134217729;index=1;name="Layer 1";reserved=176): Invalid argument ioctl: VIDIOC_QUERYMENU(id=134217730;index=1;name="[L1/L2] Free fmt";reserved=176): Invalid argument ioctl: VIDIOC_QUERYMENU(id=134217731;index=1;name="Stereo";reserved=176): Invalid argument ioctl: VIDIOC_QUERYMENU(id=134217732;index=1;name="Subbands 4-31/bound=4";reserved=176): Invalid argument ioctl: VIDIOC_QUERYMENU(id=134217733;index=1;name="None";reserved=176): Invalid argument ioctl: VIDIOC_QUERYMENU(id=134217734;index=1;name="CRC off";reserved=176): Invalid argument ioctl: VIDIOC_QUERYMENU(id=134217735;index=1;name="Copyright off";reserved=176): Invalid argument ioctl: VIDIOC_QUERYMENU(id=134217736;index=1;name="Copy";reserved=176): Invalid argument please select your TV norm 0: NTSC 1: PAL 2: SECAM nr ? 1 please select a frequency table 0: us-bcast 1: us-cable 2: us-cable-hrc 3: japan-bcast 4: japan-cable 5: europe-west 6: europe-east 7: italy 8: newzealand 9: australia 10: ireland 11: france 12: china-bcast 13: southafrica 14: argentina 15: australia-optus 16: russia nr ? 5 [global] freqtab = europe-west [defaults] input = Television norm = PAL invalid value for input: television valid choices for "input": "Composite 0", "Composite 1", "Composite 2", "Composite 3", "Tuner 0", "Composite 4", "S-Video 0", "S-Video 1", "S-Video 2", "S-Video 3" vbi: open failed [/dev/vbi] open /dev/vbi: Invalid argument What is /dev/vbi, and why does it not work? Thanks, Claes
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Hello,
has anyone managed to get the Hauppauge WinTV PVR 350 card to work with SUSE 9.3? Especially, on an Athlon64 system. YAST did not work, but after googling I managed to install firmware by extracting it from the supplied windows drivers. Now ivtv detects my card and loads the firmware. However, there seems to be something wrong with my /dev/vbi* files.
(remainder snipped) Claes, My wife has been unsuccessful getting her Haupauge WinTV PVR 350 card to run under SuSE 9.3 (Athlon 32). She's been at it for months but no luck. ;o( If you ever get yours running successfully PLEASE post the solution to the SuSE list. My wife will be so grateful! Thanks. ;o) Gil
Claes at work wrote:
Hello,
has anyone managed to get the Hauppauge WinTV PVR 350 card to work with SUSE 9.3? Especially, on an Athlon64 system. YAST did not work, but after googling I managed to install firmware by extracting it from the supplied windows drivers. Now ivtv detects my card and loads the firmware. However, there seems to be something wrong with my /dev/vbi* files.
When I start kdetv, it ends with:
kdetv: WARNING: VBIDecoder: vbi_capture_v4l_new error: Sorry, /dev/vbi4 (Vanilla iTVC15 card) cannot capture any of the requested data services. kdetv: WARNING: [VBIDecoder::restart()] no permission to access device kdetv: WARNING: MainWindow::setupInfraRed(): Lirc not available kdetv: WARNING: SaverControl: Error in DCOP communication. Unable to disable KDE Screensaver. kdetv: WARNING: ... failed. kdetv likely does not to work with your device and/or your current filter config.
And if I run scantv it looks like this:
claes@linux:~> scantv ioctl: VIDIOC_QUERYMENU(id=134217728;index=1;name="44.1 kHz";reserved=176): Invalid argument ioctl: VIDIOC_QUERYMENU(id=134217729;index=1;name="Layer 1";reserved=176): Invalid argument ioctl: VIDIOC_QUERYMENU(id=134217730;index=1;name="[L1/L2] Free fmt";reserved=176): Invalid argument ioctl: VIDIOC_QUERYMENU(id=134217731;index=1;name="Stereo";reserved=176): Invalid argument ioctl: VIDIOC_QUERYMENU(id=134217732;index=1;name="Subbands 4-31/bound=4";reserved=176): Invalid argument ioctl: VIDIOC_QUERYMENU(id=134217733;index=1;name="None";reserved=176): Invalid argument ioctl: VIDIOC_QUERYMENU(id=134217734;index=1;name="CRC off";reserved=176): Invalid argument ioctl: VIDIOC_QUERYMENU(id=134217735;index=1;name="Copyright off";reserved=176): Invalid argument ioctl: VIDIOC_QUERYMENU(id=134217736;index=1;name="Copy";reserved=176): Invalid argument
please select your TV norm 0: NTSC 1: PAL 2: SECAM nr ? 1
please select a frequency table 0: us-bcast 1: us-cable 2: us-cable-hrc 3: japan-bcast 4: japan-cable 5: europe-west 6: europe-east 7: italy 8: newzealand 9: australia 10: ireland 11: france 12: china-bcast 13: southafrica 14: argentina 15: australia-optus 16: russia nr ? 5 [global] freqtab = europe-west
[defaults] input = Television norm = PAL
invalid value for input: television valid choices for "input": "Composite 0", "Composite 1", "Composite 2", "Composite 3", "Tuner 0", "Composite 4", "S-Video 0", "S-Video 1", "S-Video 2", "S-Video 3" vbi: open failed [/dev/vbi] open /dev/vbi: Invalid argument
What is /dev/vbi, and why does it not work?
Thanks, Claes
I know from the linux-dvb mailing list it works, best trying to google for that list. Also check out http://www.linuxtv.org/v4lwiki/index.php/Main_Page Do you have /dev/dvb/ and stuff under it? I'm not sure if this is the analog card...... http://www.mail-archive.com/linux-dvb@linuxtv.org/msg15538.html Regards Sid -- Sid Boyce ... Hamradio License G3VBV, Keen licensed Private Pilot Retired IBM Mainframes and Sun Servers Tech Support Specialist Microsoft Windows Free Zone - Linux used for all Computing Tasks
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