Hauppauge HVR-2250 analog support issues with MythTV

[angel12]

So i have just installed 10.10 to give this a shot, and i am stuck on building the modules. Here is my output:

make -C /home/angel12/Downloads/saa7164-v4l-8da3bd06a289/v4l 
make[1]: Entering directory `/home/angel12/Downloads/saa7164-v4l-8da3bd06a289/v4l'
creating symbolic links...
make -C firmware prep
make[2]: Entering directory `/home/angel12/Downloads/saa7164-v4l-8da3bd06a289/v4l/firmware'
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/angel12/Downloads/saa7164-v4l-8da3bd06a289/v4l/firmware'
make -C firmware
make[2]: Entering directory `/home/angel12/Downloads/saa7164-v4l-8da3bd06a289/v4l/firmware'
make[2]: Nothing to be done for `default'.
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/angel12/Downloads/saa7164-v4l-8da3bd06a289/v4l/firmware'
Kernel build directory is /lib/modules/2.6.35-22-generic/build
make -C /lib/modules/2.6.35-22-generic/build SUBDIRS=/home/angel12/Downloads/saa7164-v4l-8da3bd06a289/v4l  modules
make[2]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.35-22-generic'
  CC [M]  /home/angel12/Downloads/saa7164-v4l-8da3bd06a289/v4l/au0828-video.o
/home/angel12/Downloads/saa7164-v4l-8da3bd06a289/v4l/au0828-video.c: In function 'au0828_uninit_isoc':
/home/angel12/Downloads/saa7164-v4l-8da3bd06a289/v4l/au0828-video.c:185: error: implicit declaration of function 'usb_buffer_free'
/home/angel12/Downloads/saa7164-v4l-8da3bd06a289/v4l/au0828-video.c: In function 'au0828_init_isoc':
/home/angel12/Downloads/saa7164-v4l-8da3bd06a289/v4l/au0828-video.c:255: error: implicit declaration of function 'usb_buffer_alloc'
/home/angel12/Downloads/saa7164-v4l-8da3bd06a289/v4l/au0828-video.c:256: warning: assignment makes pointer from integer without a cast
make[3]: *** [/home/angel12/Downloads/saa7164-v4l-8da3bd06a289/v4l/au0828-video.o] Error 1
make[2]: *** [_module_/home/angel12/Downloads/saa7164-v4l-8da3bd06a289/v4l] Error 2
make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.35-22-generic'
make[1]: *** [default] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/angel12/Downloads/saa7164-v4l-8da3bd06a289/v4l'
make: *** [all] Error 2

Any ideas?

[LowSky]

So i have just installed 10.10 to give this a shot, and i am stuck on building the modules. Here is my output...

...Any ideas?

try it my way it will work

wget http://www.steventoth.net/linux/hvr22xx/firmwares/4019072/NXP7164-2010-03-10.1.fw
sudo cp NXP7164-2010-03-10.1.fw /lib/firmware

hg clone http://kernellabs.com/hg/~stoth/saa7164-v4l
cd saa7164-v4l
make CONFIG_DVB_FIREDTV:=n
sudo make install
sudo reboot

[angel12]

try it my way it will work

wget http://www.steventoth.net/linux/hvr22xx/firmwares/4019072/NXP7164-2010-03-10.1.fw
sudo cp NXP7164-2010-03-10.1.fw /lib/firmware

hg clone http://kernellabs.com/hg/~stoth/saa7164-v4l
cd saa7164-v4l
make CONFIG_DVB_FIREDTV:=n
sudo make install
sudo reboot

same thing happens. it shouldnt matter that im on 64bit right?

Edit: looks like its because i am on a 2.6.35 kernel: http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-media/msg22089.html

[dnobes]

This is a known problem with the 2.6.35 kernel... There will have to be a patch for the driver in order to work with this kernel... Report it to the developer Steven Toth... But you should be able to fix it pretty easily... the usb_buffer_free and usb_buffer_alloc methods were renamed...

[angel12]

This is a known problem with the 2.6.35 kernel... There will have to be a patch for the driver in order to work with this kernel... Report it to the developer Steven Toth... But you should be able to fix it pretty easily... the usb_buffer_free and usb_buffer_alloc methods were renamed...

Im somewhat a noob when it comes to this, what exactly should i have to do to fix it?

[dnobes]

Two ways to fix it...

1)Find a header file that is inccluded in all the files that use either "usb_buffer_alloc" or "usb_buffer_free" and add:
#define usb_alloc_coherent(a, b, c, d) usb_buffer_alloc(a, b, c, d)
#define usb_free_coherent(a, b, c, d) usb_buffer_free(a, b, c, d)

2)Go to each file that uses them and add it at the top of each one...
Just look for them using "grep -r <looking for here> *" from the root directory.

[jdk82]

Hi all,

Just wanted to report that I followed LowSky's guide from post #42 and I now have analogue working on both of the 2250's inputs! It's not perfect, the audio is very loud and I see a flash of blue when changing channels / inputs, but it is definitely better than nothing! One more note for anyone still having trouble, I had to delete all of my existing tuners from the backend and then add the 2250's tuner BEFORE adding my other card in order to get both of the 2250's tuners working. I'm going to look for ways to normalize the audio volume, but if anyone has any suggestions please chime in.

Edit:

Okay, I spoke a little to soon. Live tv works okay but recordings are messed up. A 1/2 hour recording shows up as 8 minutes or so in length. The entire program is there but the total time is very wrong, and trying to skip forward by 30 seconds results in actually skipping forward several minutes. My dmesg is full of this:

[87529.087639] No pack at 0x0
[87529.087642] No pack at 0x800
[87529.087644] No pack at 0x1000
[87529.087647] No pack at 0x1800
[87529.087649] No pack at 0x2000
[87529.087652] No pack at 0x2800
[87529.087655] No pack at 0x3000
[87529.087657] No pack at 0x3800
[87529.087660] No pack at 0x4000
[87529.087662] No pack at 0x4800
[87529.087665] No pack at 0x5000
[87529.087667] No pack at 0x5800
[87529.087670] No pack at 0x6000
[87529.087672] No pack at 0x6800
[87529.087675] No pack at 0x7000
[87529.087677] No pack at 0x7800

This repeats consistently as long as either 2250 tuner is active. If I pause a currently recording program and watch the total time, it increments by 1 second every 3 or 4 instead of every second.I have also posted my issue here:

http://www.kernellabs.com/blog/?p=14...1#comment-1874

I will post to this thread if I figure anything out.

[RadicalGeek]

I followed LowSky's instructions but it doesn't see the driver at the backend.
Did a dmesg and got the following output.

[ 9.908435] saa7164 driver loaded
[ 9.908475] saa7164 0000:02:00.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 17 (level, low) -> IRQ 17
[ 9.909233] CORE saa7164[0]: subsystem: 0070:8891, board: Hauppauge WinTV-HVR2250 [card=7,autodetected]
[ 9.909238] saa7164[0]/0: found at 0000:02:00.0, rev: 129, irq: 17, latency: 0, mmio: 0xfe400000
[ 9.909243] saa7164 0000:02:00.0: setting latency timer to 64
[ 10.076724] saa7164_downloadfirmware() no first image
[ 10.076762] saa7164_downloadfirmware() Waiting for firmware upload (v4l-saa7164-1.0.3.fw)
[ 10.103198] saa7164_downloadfirmware() Upload failed. (file not found?)

Looks like the firmware didn't load right.

How can I correct this?

Radical Geek

[jdk82]

Hi RadicalGeek,

It's looking for the wrong firmware, which would indicate that the driver did not build / install properly. Try following LowSky's instructions again and pay carefull attention to the output following the command

make CONFIG_DVB_FIREDTV:=n

If it works properly you'll see a lot modules being built. It took about 10 minutes on my machine. It may be a good idea to capture the output of that command so you can post it here if it still doesn't work.

[LowSky]

saa7164-1.0.3.fw is for using the digital tuner, not analog, and even so it isn't install correctly.