I want to share an experience with you all, since everybody loves to watch a train wreck. As developers, we like to think that the state of the LinuxTV project is continuously improving. Then I have days like yesterday…. I wanted to build myself a MythTV box for personal use. Since my goal is to… Read More
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Making progress…
Things are moving along – last night I issued PULL requests for the em28xx PAL VBI support, as well as some cleanups for the HVR-1600 ALSA support that Mauro asked for. http://kernellabs.com/hg/~dheitmueller/em28xx-pal-vbi-2/ http://kernellabs.com/hg/~dheitmueller/hvr-1600-alsa-2/ I also checked in the patches I referred to last week when doing cx88 testing with tvtime (testing with a PCTV 800i)…. Read More
Xc5000 improvements Released!
Tonight I finally fixed the last Pinnacle 800i issue and issued a PULL request to Mauro for the xc5000 improvements. If you’re reading this because you’re looking for the firmware, you can find it here: http://kernellabs.com/firmware/xc5000/ Now that we have legal redistribution rights, I’ll be working on getting this firmware into the various distributions so… Read More
Yet even more Pinnacle 800i debugging…
I spent pretty much all evening continuing to debug strobing the xc5000 reset on the Pinnacle 800i. Not to beat the topic to death, but this has proved more of a challenge than ever expected. If nothing else, perhaps you will learn something new about methods for debugging these sorts of issues. I took several… Read More
More Pinnacle 800i work
I spent most of last night attempting to get the xc5000 reset pin working on the Pinnacle 800i. Either I am not properly programming the GPIO registers to go low on the cx23883, or the reset isn’t actually tied to one of the GPIOs. Steve was nice enough to lend a hand over irc and… Read More
Pinnacle 800i reset pin
I think I’ve said this before, but life is *much* easier when you have an engineering level contact at the vendor. After my previous post, I had an extended discussion with Steven Toth (who committed the original GPIO fix) on strategies for determining the correct GPIO to reset the xc5000. These included ideas like adding… Read More
XC5000 feedback and the Pinnacle 800i
Got some feedback today on the xc5000 tree I posted yesterday. It’s been generally positive, although one user is reporting some suspicious behavior. I also started debugging why the Pinnacle 800i stopped working with my tree. I bisected the patch series and determined that the problem was introduced in the patch that started doing power… Read More
XC5000: Now with faster tuning and power management!
For those of you who might be reading this blog because of an interest in developments on the HVR-950q or the Pinnacle PCTV HD Pro 801e, you might want to check the linux-media mailing list. Tonight I announced a beta release of the xc5000 changes I have been working on since last August. Here are… Read More