ATI Theater 550
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Hi,
I have a Power Color Real Angel 330 (ATI Theatre 550 chip, works with the same drivers) installed in my computer, but as of yet MEPIS hasn't recognized it. During startup it says something acknowledging that it knows it's there and gives me a list of cards and asks for a definition as to which it is, but it all runs by too quickly for me to do anything with it.
So, how to I get MEPIS to load the driver for my card?
tv card
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first of all, we need to determine which tv card you have and the name of chipset.
run
lspci -v
find the paragraph that looks like it belongs to the card and post it here please
here you are...
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0000:04:06.0 Multimedia video controller: Conexant CX23880/1/2/3 PCI Video and Audio Decoder (rev 05)
Subsystem: Conexant: Unknown device ea3d
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 50
Memory at f9000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16M]
Capabilities: [44] Vital Product Data
Capabilities: [4c] Power Management version 2
I'm actually not sure now if this does run on a theatre 550 chip. That's what I heard somewhere, but when I tried the driver in XP it didn't work. If you're wondering the actual card is a Powercolor Real Angel 330.
reading between the lines
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firstly this is a cx88xx chip.
http://www.linuxtv.org/v4lwiki/index.php/Cx88_devices_(cx2388x)
if your /var/log/dmesg (which scrolled past too fast to read) is read as root, you'll get something like
[17179616.228000] CORE cx88[0]: subsystem: 12ab:2300, board: UNKNOWN/GENERIC [card=0,autodetected]
[17179616.228000] TV tuner -1 at 0x1fe, Radio tuner -1 at 0x1fe
[17179616.492000] cx2388x v4l2 driver version 0.0.5 loaded
[17179616.492000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:02:08.0[A] -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 193
[17179616.492000] cx88[0]: Your board isn't known (yet) to the driver. You can
[17179616.492000] cx88[0]: try to pick one of the existing card configs via
[17179616.492000] cx88[0]: card=
[17179616.492000] cx88[0]: version might help as well.
[17179616.492000] cx88[0]: Here is a list of valid choices for the card=
[17179616.492000] cx88[0]: card=0 -> UNKNOWN/GENERIC
[17179616.492000] cx88[0]: card=1 -> Hauppauge WinTV 34xxx models
snip
snip
[17179616.492000] cx88[0]: card=35 -> WinFast DTV1000-T
[17179616.492000] cx88[0]: card=36 -> AVerTV 303 (M126)
[17179616.492000] CORE cx88[0]: subsystem: 12ab:2300, board: UNKNOWN/GENERIC [card=0,autodetected]
[17179616.492000] TV tuner -1 at 0x1fe, Radio tuner -1 at 0x1fe
[17179616.712000] cx88[0]/0: found at 0000:02:08.0, rev: 5, irq: 193, latency: 66, mmio: 0xdc000000
[17179616.904000] tuner 0-0060: All bytes are equal. It is not a TEA5767
[17179616.904000] tuner 0-0060: chip found @ 0xc0 (cx88[0])
[17179616.940000] cx88[0]/0: registered device video0 [v4l2]
[17179616.940000] cx88[0]/0: registered device vbi0
[17179616.940000] tuner 0-0060: tuner type not set
[17179616.944000] cx2388x blackbird driver version 0.0.5 loaded
now you have a difficulty.
I have one of these cards, card=38 and tuner=5
which i had working in gentoo with a 2.6.17 kernel. It isn't working in mepis 6.0 so i put in a card for which i had already patched the kernel.
http://linuxtv.org/hg/v4l-dvb?cmd=file;file=linux/Documentation/video4linux/CARDLIST.cx88;filenode=-1;style=raw
lists all the cards for which there are drivers so far.
0000:04:06.0 doesn't have a match in the right hand column, but one of those cards may work
you start off by removing the cx8800 and cx88xx modules
rmmod -f cx88xx
rmmod -f cx88800
and try inserting the modules in sequence
modprobe cx88xx tuner=1
etc
the gentoo wiki tells just how to do this automatically for another card
http://gentoo-wiki.com/HARDWARE_saa7134
you may need to get mercurial installed and linux source and compile new modules
http://www.linuxtv.org/v4lwiki/index.php/How_to_build_from_mercurial
it doesn't tell you there to start work in the /usr/src/linux directory, but it is essential to do so.
now i'll be away a few days, and if you have compile Qs, some other member of the team will help
uuuhhh...wow, i think i
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uuuhhh...wow, i think i might just use the tv tuner in windows, i'm getting the feeling this is going to go way beyond my abilities. anything involving messing with the kernel creeps me out. the last few times i tried recompiling that i ended up having to reinstall linux. thank you very much for all of the assistance though.
or wait
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because in a while, we'll have a new mepis with a new kernel (not that I think this happening as I write, I think we're fixing up the web site and the docs right now)
and a new version may just recognise your card and be ready to go.
Andrew, ATI don't give good
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Andrew, ATI don't give good support for Linux, are you sure there is a Linux driver for that card? I did a quick search and it did not look very promising. Take a look here www.tv-cards.com/linux.php and I think most pepole are using Hauppauge WinTV. Good Luck.
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