(Solved) Where are all the v4l drivers?

lindegur · Last edited by lindegur on Sat Jul 26, 2014 10:52 am; edited 3 times in total

The Hauppauge WinTV Nova T USB dvb-t receiver worked well in older kernels making use of the firmware linuxtv-dvb-firmware DVB_CARDS="usb-dib0700" and the driver from the kernel source dvb-usb-dib0700.

After some updates I got now kernel 3.8.13-gentoo and the receiver does not work anymore.

The reason for that is quite obvious the kernel driver dvb-usb-dib0700 is missing.

The problem that I have is that I do not find it anymore using make menuconfig. Looking at the kernel source there are still some files under /usr/src/linux/drivers/media/usb/dvb-usb as dib0700.h that give me hope that it is still there :roll:

. So my first question:
How to select dvb-usb-dib0700 in new kernels as 3.8.13-gentoo :?:

In 3.8.13-gentoo there is CONFIG_DVB_TTUSB_BUDGET that seems promising, however some tests with it were not successful. I have no clue how to get what to do with the firmware from linuxtv-dvb-firmware. Some hints here :?:

http://linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php/DVB-T_USB_Devices#DVB-T_USB_Devices says that my stick with 2040:7070 is a Hauppauge Nova-T-CE Stick and the driver should be in in kernel since 2.6.25 and the firmware to be used should be dvb-usb-dib0700-1.20.fw. This is exactly what I successfully had in the past. But now what to do :?:

lindegur · Posted: Fri Aug 23, 2013 3:50 pm Post subject:

Some progress I did. The driver is still supported by http://www.linuxtv.org downloading and installing it as shown in http://www.linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php/How_to_Obtain,_Build_and_Install_V4L-DVB_Device_Drivers makes the system happy. The kernel finds it and downloads the firmware and /dev/dvb/adapter0 appears.

Unfortunately I live in two locations and here I have a bad DVB-T signal. So I'm stuck getting a picture, I just see that w_scan finds the right frequencies.

I guess dvb-usb-dib0700 is no more in the kernel (I have hope that it comes back). There is something in the vdr-testing overlay mantis-v4l-dvb-hg but it does not look so promising. So next step probably means creating an ebuild.

lindegur · Posted: Fri Sep 13, 2013 6:10 pm Post subject:

Ok being back in the location where I get a dvb-t signal helps.
Everything works fine now.

Next step will be an ebuild and then putting solved to this post.

Schnulli · Guru Joined: 25 Jun 2010 Posts: 320 Location: Bremen DE

only chance is to downgrade the kernel <3.6.x and b t w , "T" is nearly abt to die
we´r running the good old 2.6.38 patched kernels and it works soooo nice

regards

lindegur · Posted: Mon Sep 23, 2013 5:38 pm Post subject:

Thank you schnulli,

It explains why it was running with an old kernel source.
However it works also well with the 3.8.13-gentoo kernel, after having configured, compiled and installed the http://www.linuxtv.org stuff. I'm not very enthusiastic about DVB-T, but I'm convinced it will be around in my county for the next decades.

With what I know now, I would have given this topic an other name as Where are all the v4l drivers?
If I

lindegur · Posted: Sat Jul 26, 2014 10:51 am Post subject:

oops

One of my computer crashed and now I'm installing on a new one the DVB-T device and I came again to the question:
How to select dvb-usb-dib0700 in new kernels as 3.12.21-gentoo-r1 :?:

The answer is easy:
Just select Remote Controller support and then CONFIG_DVB_USB_DIB0700 is there.

In the past I switched Remote Controller support intentionally off since I had a conflict with a LIRC device (the LIRC device plus my DVB receiver received and IR signals).