Hi,

I am relatively new to both myth and linux, however have been happily working through the issues to get my system up and running. My system is
Compaq EN SFF P3-700
Intel 815 chipset (onboard sound, network and video)
XFX GForce MX4000
Avermedia DVB-T 771 tv card

My location is Melb-AU in case anyone is interested.

I've got video out via TV working on the MX4000, nice.
I've still got to work on sound (nothing as yet)
I'm having difficulty with the tuner card.

I understand that the mt352 module is required to use the front-end for this tuner, but it is not in the 2.4 kernel. The dvb-kernel from www.linuxtv.org doesn't have it, but a cvs snapshot does. Problem is it no longer has a 2.4 build, only 2.6.

Anyone had any luck with this card, and would you mind outlining the steps?

I've had a play with upgrading to 2.6.10-rc2 which support the mt352 out of the box, but that's another story, and my lack of general linux knowledge there is frustrating my build efforts. I have no particular interest in moving to 2.6 unless I have no other option.

Regards
Simon

I have had several attempts at upgrading to a newer 2.6 kernel but have had many problems. I tried again today and found that the mouse would not work. I searched the forums but to no avail.

Has anyone out there successfully upgraded to 2.6.8.1+ or greater? This is required for the DVICO FusionHDTV driver written by Chris Pascoe.

I'll just close this call off so it's not left at a lose end.

I have managed to get the 771 working under 2.6.10-rc2. In short, it required that I compile the kernel with MT352 and BT878 support. However it also required that when running the MAKEDEV-DVB.sh script from linuxtv-dvb-XXX , that I run a CVS version of the script, as the versions in 1.1.0 and 1.1.1 don't set the device number correctly (they set it to 250 when it needs to be 212 for a 2.6 kernel). Just open the script to see what I mean.

Anyway, being not very well versed in the operations of linux, I may have muddled up the above somehow and just managed to fluke it, but the above steps seemed to clear it up for me. Following the setup of the devices, and adding the relevant modules into /etc/modules, and running scan and tzap to get the channel parameters, I was able to confirm with dvbstream that the card was working. A recompile of MythTV with DVB support, and manual adding of the channel data resulted in a working (sort of) myth box.

I have other problems now, but I'll open a new thread, as it is not directly DVB-T 771 related.

Cheers
Simon

Did you have any problems getting things working using the new kernel version? Last time I tried, my mouse didn't work. Other times I have found that my memory stick would no longer mount (which was a bit of a show stopper because I dont have a floppy drive or a network connection so the only way I could transfer files to thebox was by burning cds).

If not, how did you go about installing it?

not sure about the memory stick problem, but the mouse problem is simply because there is an additional module that has to be loaded for mouse support under 2.6 I've run into this a couple of times really had me scratching my head the first time.

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Greg,

I've run into USB problems with 2.6.10-rc2 (which is what I suspect you have been having). I still haven't managed to overcome them. It had me stumped for days, because I only have a usb keyboard & mouse, and once I upgraded I couldn't do anything. Wasn't until I plugged in a PS2 keyboard that everything came to life (i.e. USB would work as well once PS2 was plugged in, but not before).

I'm not going to take a wild guess at what's stuffed, but the standard recommendations relating to USB in 2.6 don't seem to be working for me. That is (and I'm doing this from memory so I might be a little wrong with some of the names and orders)

1. I built the kernel with module support fo UHCI (my board is intel 815)
2. I add to /etc/modules something along the lines of
uhci-hcd
usb-storage
usbkbd
usbmouse

but they didn't work (i.e. no USB on reboot), and dmesg spat out quite a few messages relating to unknown symbol usb_blah blah blah

Then once PS2 was plugged in, USB also magically came to life (no dmesg though ). I suspected that the USB support being invoked was the low level one that is mentioned in the kernel as conflicting with the usbkbd and usbmouse module, but I'm pretty much stumped about USB. I have to keep rebooting into 2.4 if I want to access my USB drive to transfer files in/out

sorry that doesn't help you. I've done a bit of searching to no avail on the subject.

Simon

hmmm odd is there a reason you are trying to use .10rc2 instead of the officially released .9 ? I've never had any problems with usb and 2.6, however I haven't tried 10rc? Wouldn't suprise me in the least if they hosed usb after what they did with optical drives in 2.6.8

One of these days they will decide to open up 2.7 and maybe 2.6 will actually become a stable kernel branch.

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.9 doesn't have the mt352 (for avermedia dvb-t 771) frontend tuner module, 10-rc2 does. No other reason. I guess I could have gone with 2.9 and a cvs of the linuxtv-dvb-xxx package, but at the time I put it together, that wasn't an option for me.

I'm not overly fussed with it at the moment. I'll figure it out at some point, and use a PS2 keyboard for the time being.