Trying to make TV-Card Winfast TV2000 XP Global work!

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Logan11 · Post by **Logan11** » Thu Oct 30, 2008 4:01 am

Need some help to setup this card.

I shall give as more details as i can.

My TV-Card is this one: Winfast TV2000 XP Global
http://www.leadtek.com/eng/tv_tuner/spe ... id=6&act=2

My lspci | grep Multimedia :

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01:06.0 Multimedia video controller: Conexant CX23880/1/2/3 PCI Video and Audio Decoder (rev 05)
01:06.1 Multimedia controller: Conexant CX23880/1/2/3 PCI Video and Audio Decoder [Audio Port] (rev 05)

My Kernel Config cat /boot/kernel-config | grep CX:

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# CONFIG_EEPROM_93CX6 is not set
CONFIG_VIDEO_BTCX=m
CONFIG_VIDEO_CX88=m
CONFIG_VIDEO_CX88_ALSA=m
# CONFIG_VIDEO_CX88_BLACKBIRD is not set
# CONFIG_SND_PCXHR is not set

More Kernel Config cat /boot/kernel-config | grep CONFIG_I2C:

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CONFIG_I2C=y
CONFIG_I2C_BOARDINFO=y
CONFIG_I2C_CHARDEV=y
CONFIG_I2C_HELPER_AUTO=y
CONFIG_I2C_ALGOBIT=m
CONFIG_I2C_ALI1535=m
CONFIG_I2C_ALI1563=m
CONFIG_I2C_ALI15X3=m
CONFIG_I2C_AMD756=m
# CONFIG_I2C_AMD756_S4882 is not set
CONFIG_I2C_AMD8111=m
# CONFIG_I2C_I801 is not set
# CONFIG_I2C_ISCH is not set
# CONFIG_I2C_PIIX4 is not set
CONFIG_I2C_NFORCE2=m
# CONFIG_I2C_NFORCE2_S4985 is not set
CONFIG_I2C_SIS5595=m
CONFIG_I2C_SIS630=m
CONFIG_I2C_SIS96X=m
CONFIG_I2C_VIA=m
CONFIG_I2C_VIAPRO=m
CONFIG_I2C_OCORES=m
CONFIG_I2C_SIMTEC=m
# CONFIG_I2C_PARPORT_LIGHT is not set
# CONFIG_I2C_TAOS_EVM is not set
CONFIG_I2C_TINY_USB=m
# CONFIG_I2C_VOODOO3 is not set
# CONFIG_I2C_PCA_PLATFORM is not set
CONFIG_I2C_STUB=m
# CONFIG_I2C_DEBUG_CORE is not set
# CONFIG_I2C_DEBUG_ALGO is not set
# CONFIG_I2C_DEBUG_BUS is not set
# CONFIG_I2C_DEBUG_CHIP is not set

My emerge --info :

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emerge --info
WARNING: repository at /usr/portage-local is missing a repo_name entry
Portage 2.2_rc12 (default/linux/amd64/2008.0/desktop, gcc-4.3.1, glibc-2.8_p20080602-r0, 2.6.27-gentoo x86_64)
=================================================================
System uname: Linux-2.6.27-gentoo-x86_64-AMD_Phenom-tm-_9550_Quad-Core_Processor-with-glibc2.2.5
Timestamp of tree: Wed, 29 Oct 2008 09:00:02 +0000
app-shells/bash:     3.2_p33
dev-java/java-config: 1.3.7, 2.1.6
dev-lang/python:     2.4.4-r13, 2.5.2-r7
dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r6
dev-util/cmake:      2.6.2
sys-apps/baselayout: 2.0.0
sys-apps/openrc:     0.3.0-r1
sys-apps/sandbox:    1.2.18.1-r2
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.63
sys-devel/automake:  1.5, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10.1-r1
sys-devel/binutils:  2.18-r3
sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.0-r4
sys-devel/libtool:   1.5.26
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.23-r3
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64"
CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-march=amdfam10 -O2 -pipe"
CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/share/config /var/lib/hsqldb"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/gentoo-release /etc/php/apache2-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cgi-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cli-php5/ext-active/ /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo /etc/udev/rules.d"
CXXFLAGS="-march=amdfam10 -O2 -pipe"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="buildpkg candy distlocks fixpackages parallel-fetch preserve-libs protect-owned sandbox sfperms strict unmerge-orphans userfetch"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://ftp-stud.fht-esslingen.de/pub/Mirrors/gentoo/"
LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1"
LINGUAS="en el"
MAKEOPTS="-j9"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages/phenom"
PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/portage-local"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="7zip X X509 a52 aac aalib acct acl acpi aiglx alsa amd amd64 amr amuled apache2 asf audiofile avi beagle berkdb bidi bl blas bluetooth branding bzip2 cairo cdda cddb cdio cdparanoia cdr chm cli cpudetection cracklib crypt cups curl dbus directfb djvu dmx dnd dri dts dv dvb dvd dvdr dvdread dvi edl eds emboss encode esd evo exif expat extrafilters fam fame fbcon ffmpeg firefox flac foomaticdb fortran freetype freetype2 gdbm ggi gif gimp gimpprint glib glitz gnome gnutls gphoto gphoto2 gpm graphviz gstreamer gtk gtk2 gtkhtml h264 hal hddtemp hdf5 hpn hwdata-gentoo iconv idn ieee1394 imagemagick imlib ipv6 isdnlog ithreads jack java joystick jpeg jpeg2k kde kdeenablefinal kdehiddenvisibility kdexdeltas kdrive kerberos keyring kipi lame lcms libcaca libnotify libsamplerate lirc live lm_sensors lua lzo matroska midi mime mjpeg mmap mmx mmx2 mmxext mng mod modplug mono motif mozcalendar mozilla mozsvg mp3 mp4 mpeg mpi mplayer msn mudflap multilib musepack mysql nas nautilus ncurses network nfs nls nntp nodrm nptl nptlonly nsplugin ogg openexr opengl openmp pam pch pcre pdf perl plotutils png pppd python qt qt3 qt3support qt4 quicktime quotas rdesktop readline reflection remote rtc ruby samba scanner screen sdl sensord session shout silc slang smp sndfile sound speex spell spl sqlite sqlite3 sse sse2 ssl startup-notification stats stream subtitles subversion svg sysfs tcltk tcpd tetex tga theora threads tiff timidity truetype ucs2 unicode usb userlocales v4l v4l2 vcd vhosts vorbis widescreen winbind wma wmf wxgtk1 x264 xanim xcomposite xine xml xml2 xorg xpm xprint xscreensaver xulrunner xv xvid xvmc yv12 zlib" ALSA_CARDS="snd-hda-intel" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mmap_emul mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" APACHE2_MODULES="actions alias auth_basic authn_alias authn_anon authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache dav dav_fs dav_lock deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="en el" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="ati fglrx vesa"
Unset:  CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, FFLAGS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS

My /etc/conf.d/modules:

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modules_2_6="vbodrv cx88xx"
module_cx88xx_args="card=61"

Having done all that, when I boot the system,
dmesg says that it doesn't recognize the card:
dmesg | grep cx

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cx2388x alsa driver version 0.0.6 loaded
cx88/0: cx2388x v4l2 driver version 0.0.6 loaded
cx8800 0000:01:06.0: PCI INT A -> Link[APC1] -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 16
cx88[0]: Your board isn't known (yet) to the driver.  You can
cx88[0]: try to pick one of the existing card configs via
cx88[0]: card=<n> insmod option.  Updating to the latest
cx88[0]: version might help as well.
cx88[0]: Here is a list of valid choices for the card=<n> insmod option:
cx88[0]:    card=0 -> UNKNOWN/GENERIC
cx88[0]:    card=1 -> Hauppauge WinTV 34xxx models
.
.
.
cx88[0]:    card=59 -> DViCO FusionHDTV 5 PCI nano
cx88[0]:    card=60 -> Pinnacle Hybrid PCTV
cx88[0]:    card=61 -> Winfast TV2000 XP Global
cx88[0]:    card=62 -> PowerColor RA330
cx88[0]:    card=63 -> Geniatech X8000-MT DVBT
cx88[0]:    card=64 -> DViCO FusionHDTV DVB-T PRO
cx88[0]:    card=65 -> DViCO FusionHDTV 7 Gold
cx88[0]:    card=66 -> Prolink Pixelview MPEG 8000GT
cx88[0]:    card=67 -> Kworld PlusTV HD PCI 120 (ATSC 120)
cx88[0]: subsystem: 107d:6618, board: UNKNOWN/GENERIC [card=0,autodetected]
cx88[0]: TV tuner type -1, Radio tuner type -1
cx88[0]/0: found at 0000:01:06.0, rev: 5, irq: 16, latency: 32, mmio: 0xf4000000
cx88[0]/0: registered device video0 [v4l2]
cx88[0]/0: registered device vbi0
cx88_audio 0000:01:06.1: PCI INT A -> Link[APC1] -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 16
cx88[0]/1: CX88x/0: ALSA support for cx2388x boards
cx8800 0000:01:06.0: PCI INT A disabled

Any advice please? What am I doing wrong?

Tariella · Post by **Tariella** » Thu Oct 30, 2008 9:12 am

Your Card might not be supported yet.
The best link for running TV-cards under Linux is here.
Unfortunately there isn't much info about your card.

I'd recommend you try the card=0 setting (since it claims that your card is unknown) and see if it works then.

Logan11 · Post by **Logan11** » Thu Oct 30, 2008 12:16 pm

Tariella wrote:Your Card might not be supported yet.
The best link for running TV-cards under Linux is here.
Unfortunately there isn't much info about your card.

I'd recommend you try the card=0 setting (since it claims that your card is unknown) and see if it works then.

Thanx for the link.

The driver documentation says that it supports the card. It is card number 61 from the list.

http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/g ... 03;hb=HEAD

When I had the 2.6.26 Kernel the card was not on the list at all.

Logan11 · Post by **Logan11** » Sun Nov 02, 2008 11:52 am

I tried the card=0 option as well as the card=5 which is a similar TV-card but nothing worked.

I don't know what else I can do...

Any ideas??

Tariella · Post by **Tariella** » Mon Nov 03, 2008 10:45 am

Sometimes tv card brands are "relaunched" by the manifacturer with newer chip versions and won't work with the drivers any more. Maybe one of the newer kernel release candidates is including a enhanced/updated driver version, where your chip is supported. Try 2.6.28, it came out today in a new rc version.

Good luck!