Conexant Falcon II TV tuner setup help?

[fliptrix]

Hi, so I have a Conexant Falcon II tv tuner, in a HP media center comp. Works fine in windows, but when I boot into Ubuntu (hardy, 8.04) I can't get the tv to work. TV time and a few other tv programs tell me can't find /dev/video0 or can't open /dev/video0. I'm not sure how to setup this card in linux so any help would be great... just so i can get to watch tv in linux. I was assuming that ivtv would be the correct module to use, but I'm not sure.

[fliptrix]

No one? Anyone know anything about the Conexant Falcon II video capture chipset? Apparently it looks like it shares the same chipset as the PVR-150 if that helps..?

[Ringi]

Only thing I find is this:
http://www.linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php/Reference_Designs

In Terminal, show the output of lspci.

[fliptrix]

here is the output of for lspci:

00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 82P965/G965 Memory Controller Hub (rev 02)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82P965/G965 PCI Express Root Port (rev 02)
00:19.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82562V 10/100 Network Connection (rev 02)
00:1a.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #4 (rev 02)
00:1a.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #5 (rev 02)
00:1a.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #2 (rev 02)
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) HD Audio Controller (rev 02)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 02)
00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 02)
00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 02)
00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #1 (rev 02)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 PCI Bridge (rev f2)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801HH (ICH8DH) LPC Interface Controller (rev 02)
00:1f.2 RAID bus controller: Intel Corporation 82801 SATA RAID Controller (rev 02)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) SMBus Controller (rev 02)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation G72 [GeForce 7300 LE] (rev a1)
02:00.0 Multimedia video controller: Internext Compression Inc iTVC16 (CX23416) MPEG-2 Encoder (rev 01)
02:01.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Agere Systems FW323 (rev 70)
02:03.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications Inc. AR5413 802.11abg NIC (rev 01)
02:04.0 Communication controller: Agere Systems Unknown device 0620

[Ringi]

Tvtime wont work with IVTV, so try this:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=763698

[fliptrix]

Alright, I'll give it a try and see what I can do... if not... it looks like I'll just be looking out for a new card to use.

[Ringi]

Maybe you have to install V4L drivers.

[fliptrix]

not sure if this would help but here's my dmesg | grep ivtv
$ dmesg | grep ivtv
[ 60.457370] ivtv: Start initialization, version 1.1.0
[ 60.457451] ivtv0: Initializing card #0
[ 60.457456] ivtv0: Unknown card: vendor/device: 4444/0016
[ 60.457459] ivtv0: subsystem vendor/device: 1043/4b66
[ 60.457460] ivtv0: cx23416 based
[ 60.457462] ivtv0: Defaulting to Hauppauge WinTV PVR-150 card
[ 60.457463] ivtv0: Please mail the vendor/device and subsystem vendor/device IDs and what kind of
[ 60.457465] ivtv0: card you have to the ivtv-devel mailinglist (www.ivtvdriver.org)
[ 60.457467] ivtv0: Prefix your subject line with [UNKNOWN CARD].
[ 60.471615] ivtv0: Unreasonably low latency timer, setting to 64 (was 32)
[ 60.531042] ivtv0: Invalid EEPROM
[ 60.882160] tuner 0-0043: chip found @ 0x86 (ivtv i2c driver #0)
[ 60.886560] tuner 0-0060: chip found @ 0xc0 (ivtv i2c driver #0)
[ 60.941040] cx25840 0-0044: cx25843-24 found @ 0x88 (ivtv i2c driver #0)
[ 60.959740] ivtv0: Registered device video0 for encoder MPG (4096 kB)
[ 60.959757] ivtv0: Registered device video32 for encoder YUV (2048 kB)
[ 60.959772] ivtv0: Registered device vbi0 for encoder VBI (1024 kB)
[ 60.959787] ivtv0: Registered device video24 for encoder PCM (320 kB)
[ 60.959802] ivtv0: Registered device radio0 for encoder radio
[ 60.959804] ivtv0: Initialized card #0: Hauppauge WinTV PVR-150
[ 60.959864] ivtv: End initialization
[ 81.787206] ivtv0: Loaded v4l-cx2341x-enc.fw firmware (376836 bytes)
[ 81.984187] ivtv0: Encoder revision: 0x02060039
[ 85.583529] ivtv0: i2c hardware 0x00000020 (wm8775) not found for command 0x4008646d
[ 85.659571] ivtv0: i2c hardware 0x00000020 (wm8775) not found for command 0x4008646d
[ 85.720085] ivtv0: i2c hardware 0x00000020 (wm8775) not found for command 0x4008646d


and

$ lspci -vv -s 02:
02:00.0 Multimedia video controller: Internext Compression Inc iTVC16 (CX23416) MPEG-2 Encoder (rev 01)
Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Unknown device 4b66
Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B-
Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
Latency: 64 (32000ns min, 2000ns max), Cache Line Size: 32 bytes
Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 21
Region 0: Memory at f4000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=64M]
Capabilities: <access denied>

[Ringi]

Here is what we try:
sudo gedit /etc/modules
add this line
wm8775
restart the computer and check dmesg | grep ivtv again.
Maybe its necessary add another line.

[fliptrix]

No luck so far... I'm really stumped on this. I wonder why this is so different to configure. Well here's some pics of the actual card if they give off any info possibly.

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3102/2672964821_40b1828289.jpg?v=0

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3109/2673783190_bbb379e646.jpg?v=0

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3181/2672964773_0a76b6c6fb.jpg?v=0

Any ideas about the 'Invalid EEPROM'? And how would I go about setting the tuner type? From looking at the card, I should have a Philips type tuner I think.

[Ringi]

Here is one thing you can try:
add in /etc/modprobe.d/ivtv:
options ivtv tuner=43 cardtype=7 newi2c=1
Otherwise this card is not working.
But if someone have more information about this card,
please add it here.

[fliptrix]

It looks like I may finally be getting somewhere... but don't really know. After adding the line, VLC is actually showing me something as in just static. As in this:

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3178/2674309654_a0707840f5.jpg?v=0

Before setting the tuner, I had just gotten a black screen. I've tried setting/changing channels but still the same static. I think I may just look for a new card to work with in linux, since I may get no where with this.

[Ringi]

I think I may just look for a new card to work with in linux
Yes I agree.

[fliptrix]

Well thanks for helping out and trying. But quick question, you have and recomendations of any good tv cards that will be easy to setup in linux as well as be compatible in windows? Thanks.

[Ringi]

Analog or dvb-t, here is information from LinuxTv:
http://www.linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php/Main_Page
Many countries in Europe are changing from analog to digital in air.
Some signals are ATSC others are DVB-T.
So check what is going to happened in your country