[Wolves] Fwd: pvr help (fixed a bit)

[Mark Croft Redditch Linux Mint]

one step closer

https://github.com/ljalves/linux_media/wiki/CX24117-firmware

had to copy the firmware into the
 /lib/firmware/dvb-fe-cx24117.fw

i found it somewhere about 10 minutes ago..


On Mon, 26 Jul 2021 at 16:22, Mark Croft Redditch Linux Mint
<mark.croft.lug at gmail.com> wrote:
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> It fresh install of Ubuntu mate 20
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> On Mon, 26 Jul 2021, 13:22 Adam Sweet via Wolves, <wolves at mailman.lug.org.uk> wrote:
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>> On 26/07/2021 11:13, Mark Croft Redditch Linux Mint via Wolves wrote:
>> > Still having problems getting my TBS dvb card working.. details below..
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>> <snip>
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>> > https://controlc.com/7026a620 <https://controlc.com/7026a620> pwd MONKEY
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>> I'm not clear on the order you've provided the information in here, it
>> seems a bit mixed up. Also, you don't say what OS this is on but what
>> follows assumes it's something Ubuntu based.
>>
>>  From the information you provided it looks like the device is detected
>> and a driver is loaded for it, then you get an error about the firmware,
>> you say you think the firmware is installed, then you delete all kernel
>> media device drivers, then you run a script to build a driver for the
>> device...
>>
>> Firstly, running the following command seems a really bad idea.
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>> (Hint that should be obvious, do not try the following command at home)
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>> # sudo rm -rf /lib/modules/`uname -r`/kernel/drivers/media/
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>> It will have forcibly removed all media device drivers (there are a lot
>> under there) and you would presumably have needed some of the core and
>> common ones that you removed. I'd be surprised if you aren't having
>> weird AV related things fail now, or at least after rebooting.
>>
>> You'll probably have to reinstall your kernel to put them back,
>> something like:
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>> # sudo apt-get install --reinstall linux-image-generic linux-image
>>
>> Moving on, maybe the order that you provided the information in is wrong
>> but as I said it seems you had a working driver already and were getting
>> a firmware loading error. You're going to need to be sure that firmware
>> is there. What do you see when you run the following:
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>> ls -lh /lib/firmware/dvb-fe-cx24117.fw
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>> If it's not there then it's not there. It looks like you can get it from
>> the following link if it's not in your driver bundle:
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>> https://github.com/OpenELEC/dvb-firmware/blob/master/firmware/dvb-fe-cx24117.fw
>>
>> Or follow the instructions here:
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>> https://github-wiki-see.page/m/ljalves/linux_media/wiki/CX24117-firmware
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>> And copy it to /lib/firmware/dvb-fe-cx24117.fw (with sudo).
>>
>> To check that the driver is working, look at dmesg as you did (dmesg |
>> grep dvb) and fire up whatever front end viewer you're using. It's a
>> long time since I played with this stuff but I recall there are a few
>> hoops to jump through to scan for channels, store them and then view
>> them. I believe the KDE media player Kaffeine made this somewhat easier
>> but this email from March has some links to help you with some tools for
>> the job:
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>> https://mailman.lug.org.uk/pipermail/wolves/2021-March/033781.html
>>
>> HTH. If you get it working let us know.
>>
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