Re: Difficulties with Conexant Winfast TV2000 XP (rev 05)

Jack Bertram <jack@xxxxxxxxxxxx> · Wed, 2 Feb 2005 08:57:34 +0000

* Ian Pickworth <ian@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> [050201 07:41]:
> Have you tried the latest v4l snapshot? PAL-I sound only started working 
> on the CX88 from snapshot video4linux-20050120-125446.tar.gz 
> (http://dl.bytesex.org/cvs-snapshots/).

Great!  I struggled with several problems to get this compiled (the
dvb headers were missing, the kernel source in Ubuntu isn't vanilla,
blah, blah) but eventually succeeded and I got glorious colour and
sound in xawtv.

Once.

Then, flushed with success, I tried to get MythTV working again and now
I seem to be back to square one.  But at least I know it works now...

> You may then have to explicitly force the TV norm into PAL-I. Using 
> tvtime, I use the following script to get it all started properly (you 
> also need xawtv installed for this to work):
> 
> #!/bin/sh
> nohup tvtime &
> sleep 1
> v4lctl setnorm PAL-I
> tvtime-command CHANNEL_DOWN CHANNEL_UP
> 
> If that still doesn't work, you may have to explicitly load the tda9887 
> module at boot (or at least before you load cx8800). When you load it 
> correctly, you should see something like the following in dmesg when 
> cx8800 loads (around the time that tuner gets set):
> 
> tda9885/6/7: chip found @ 0x86
> 
> If that still doesn't work, try placing this in /etc/modules.conf and 
> reload:
> 
> options tda9885 qss=1

I haven't tried any of these further suggestions yet, so I will when I
get another chance to experiment.

Thanks for your help

jack