Hauppauge WinTV-HVR-1800

[Bill Davidsen]

Ed Greshko wrote:
> Mick M. wrote:
>> Hi;
>>  I just got this card as it has a digital tuner.
>> Comcast decided to shift channels 30-70 to digital.
>>
>> Anyway this tuner does not work yet in F10.
>>
>> [mick at localhost ~]$ tvtime
>> Running tvtime 1.0.2.
>> Reading configuration from /etc/tvtime/tvtime.xml
>> Reading configuration from /home/mick/.tvtime/tvtime.xml
>> xvoutput: No XVIDEO port found which supports YUY2 images.
>>
>> *** tvtime requires hardware YUY2 overlay support from your video card
>> *** driver.  If you are using an older NVIDIA card (TNT2), then
>> *** this capability is only available with their binary drivers.
>> *** For some ATI cards, this feature may be found in the experimental
>> *** GATOS drivers: http://gatos.souceforge.net/
>> *** If unsure, please check with your distribution to see if your
>> *** X driver supports hardware overlay surfaces.
>>
>> [mick at localhost ~]$ lspci
>> 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Mobility Radeon HD 3450
>> 01:00.1 Audio device: ATI Technologies Inc RV620 Audio device [Radeon HD 34xx Series]
>> 02:00.0 Multimedia video controller: Conexant Systems, Inc. Device 8880 (rev 0f)
>>
>> lsmod
>> v4l2_common            22912  4 tuner,cx25840,cx23885,cx2341x
>> rfkill                 17188  1 rt2x00lib
>> videodev               46752  4 tuner,cx25840,cx23885,v4l2_common
>> snd_pcm_oss            52224  0 
>> v4l1_compat            20996  1 videodev
>> mac80211              213872  2 rt2x00pci,rt2x00lib
>> v4l2_compat_ioctl32    17792  1 videodev
>> videobuf_dvb           15236  1 cx23885
>> snd_mixer_oss          23168  1 snd_pcm_oss
>> dvb_core               94108  2 cx23885,videobuf_dvb
>> ata_generic            14084  0 
>> snd_pcm                85512  2 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm_oss
>> cfg80211               32400  2 rt2x00lib,mac80211
>> pata_acpi              13184  0 
>> snd_timer              30352  2 snd_seq,snd_pcm
>> videobuf_core          24836  3 cx23885,videobuf_dma_sg,videobuf_dvb
>>
>> [mick at localhost ~]$ uname -a
>> Linux localhost.localdomain 2.6.27.19-170.2.35.fc10.x86_64 #1 SMP Mon Feb 23 13:00:23 EST 2009 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
>>
>>
>> kdetv
>> "unable to grab video
>>
>> Video display is not possible with the current plugin configuration. Try playing with the configuration options of the V4L2 plugin."
>>
>>
>> Any ideas?
>>
>> Mick M
>>   
> Have you seen
> http://www.linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php/Hauppauge_WinTV-HVR-1800 ?
> 
> 
This has been pointed out before, and in spite of what it says about support in 
the kernel a year ago (2.6.24) the card doesn't seem to work with any kernel yet.

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