Thread: Fusion HDTV5 Gold+ vs. US OTA HD vs. my sanity

Hoping someone has some experience with this setup... I've been going by "in transition" docs and outdated forum hearsay and having no success...

I've been struggling to get OTA HD output from my tuner card for a while now, with no results. I can get the channel listings from the Zap2It service (and for my listing there I've selected only the local OTA HD channels). I live about 3 miles from the transmitter, but only get snow. If I do a channel scan, mythtv will find the SD channels and add them, and I can watch live sdtv. I've been trying to avoid mixing SD and HD, since there were notes on other boards that you couldn't readily use both digital and analog at the same time with the Fusion card. That, and the only reason I bought the card was for HD

Not getting sound with SD or HD, but more worried about the HD tuner for now.

I'm wondering if there is a way to graphically see the strengh of HD signal, to see if I have a dud card or something. More likely (make that *very likely*) it's user error on my part, but stranger things have happened.

System specs as follows: Pentium D 2.8, Nvidia 6600GT (latest nvidia drivers installed and v4l added in xorg.cnf), 2GB Ram. Fedora Core 5 (x86_64 2080 kernel version) with the latest updates. Latest mythtv-suite from yum.

# mythbackend

Code:

2006-04-24 12:21:45.242 Using runtime prefix = /usr
2006-04-24 12:21:45.260 New DB connection, total: 1
2006-04-24 12:21:45.265 Connected to database 'mythconverg' at host: localhost
2006-04-24 12:21:45.267 Current Schema Version: 1124
Starting up as the master server.
2006-04-24 12:21:45.271 mythbackend: MythBackend started as master server
2006-04-24 12:21:47.001 New DB connection, total: 2
2006-04-24 12:21:47.002 Connected to database 'mythconverg' at host: localhost
2006-04-24 12:21:47.004 Channel(/dev/video0) Error: SetInputAndFormat(0, ATSC)
                        while setting format (v4l v2)
                        eno: Invalid argument (22)
2006-04-24 12:21:47.004 Channel(/dev/video0): SetInputAndFormat(0, ATSC)
                        Setting video mode with v4l version 1 worked
2006-04-24 12:21:47.005 Channel(/dev/video0) Error: SetInputAndFormat(0, ATSC)
                        while setting format (v4l v2)
                        eno: Invalid argument (22)
2006-04-24 12:21:47.005 Channel(/dev/video0): SetInputAndFormat(0, ATSC)
                        Setting video mode with v4l version 1 worked
2006-04-24 12:21:47.006 New DB connection, total: 3
2006-04-24 12:21:47.007 Connected to database 'mythconverg' at host: localhost
2006-04-24 12:21:54.915 New DB scheduler connection
2006-04-24 12:21:54.916 Connected to database 'mythconverg' at host: localhost
2006-04-24 12:21:54.920 mythbackend version: 0.19.20060121-2 www.mythtv.org
2006-04-24 12:21:54.920 Enabled verbose msgs:  important general
2006-04-24 12:21:54.920 AutoExpire: Found 1 recorders w/max rate of 72 MiB/min
2006-04-24 12:21:54.921 AutoExpire: Required Free Space: 2.1 GB w/freq: 10 min
2006-04-24 12:22:02.247 Reschedule requested for id -1.
2006-04-24 12:22:02.297 mythbackend: Running housekeeping thread
2006-04-24 12:22:10.530 Scheduled 476 items in 8.3 = 0.09 match + 8.19 place
2006-04-24 12:22:10.531 scheduler: Scheduled items: Scheduled 476 items in 8.3 = 0.09 match + 8.19 place
2006-04-24 12:22:10.535 Seem to be woken up by USER

and

# /sbin/lspci -v

Code:

00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 945G/P Memory Controller Hub
        Subsystem: Intel Corporation Unknown device 4e53
        Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0
        Capabilities: [e0] Vendor Specific Information

00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 945G/P PCI Express Graphics Port (prog-if 00 [Normal decode])
        Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0
        Bus: primary=00, secondary=01, subordinate=01, sec-latency=0
        Memory behind bridge: 54000000-55ffffff
        Prefetchable memory behind bridge: 0000000040000000-000000004ff00000
        Capabilities: [88] #0d [0000]
        Capabilities: [80] Power Management version 2
        Capabilities: [90] Message Signalled Interrupts: 64bit- Queue=0/0 Enable-
        Capabilities: [a0] Express Root Port (Slot+) IRQ 0
        Capabilities: [100] Virtual Channel
        Capabilities: [140] Unknown (5)

00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) High Definition Audio Controller (rev 01)
        Subsystem: Intel Corporation Unknown device 0b0b
        Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 20
        Memory at 56100000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
        Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 2
        Capabilities: [60] Message Signalled Interrupts: 64bit+ Queue=0/0 Enable-
        Capabilities: [70] Express Unknown type IRQ 0
        Capabilities: [100] Virtual Channel
        Capabilities: [130] Unknown (5)

01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV43 [GeForce 6600 GT] (rev a2) (prog-if 00 [VGA])
        Subsystem: Giga-byte Technology Unknown device 3126
        Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 16
        Memory at 55000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16M]
        Memory at 40000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=256M]
        Memory at 54000000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16M]
        Expansion ROM at <ignored> [disabled]
        Capabilities: [60] Power Management version 2
        Capabilities: [68] Message Signalled Interrupts: 64bit+ Queue=0/0 Enable-
        Capabilities: [78] Express Endpoint IRQ 0
        Capabilities: [100] Virtual Channel
        Capabilities: [128] Power Budgeting

05:03.0 Multimedia video controller: Conexant CX23880/1/2/3 PCI Video and Audio Decoder (rev 05)
        Subsystem: DViCO Corporation DViCO FusionHDTV5 Gold
        Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 19
        Memory at 52000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16M]
        Capabilities: [44] Vital Product Data
        Capabilities: [4c] Power Management version 2

05:03.1 Multimedia controller: Conexant CX23880/1/2/3 PCI Video and Audio Decoder [Audio Port] (rev 05)
        Subsystem: DViCO Corporation DViCO FusionHDTV5 Gold
        Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 11
        Memory at 51000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16M]
        Capabilities: [4c] Power Management version 2

05:03.2 Multimedia controller: Conexant CX23880/1/2/3 PCI Video and Audio Decoder [MPEG Port] (rev 05)
        Subsystem: DViCO Corporation DViCO FusionHDTV5 Gold
        Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 19
        Memory at 50000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16M]
        Capabilities: [4c] Power Management version 2

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

How are you setting up the card in mythtv-setup? I had to setup my HD-3000 as a dvb device in there using 8vsb, if I remember correctly. Then I did a channel scan in mythtv and it got the channels.

Drivers: For my HD-3000 with the FC4 2.6.16-1.2069 kernel all I needed to do was get the firmware in the /lib/firmware directory and the drivers were in the kernel.

Did you get the card working outside of mythtv using the dvb-apps from linuxtv.org? They have a channel scan app and a signal app.