Re: It BOOTS! 3.13.5 that is.

[Gene Heskett]

On Saturday 22 February 2014, Ilia Mirkin wrote:
>On Sat, Feb 22, 2014 at 10:42 PM, Gene Heskett <gheskett@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> On Saturday 22 February 2014, Ilia Mirkin wrote:
>>>On Sat, Feb 22, 2014 at 8:22 PM, Gene Heskett <gheskett@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>> But my tv card isn't being found by kaffeine.  It is this card:
>>>> 
>>>> 01:08.0 Multimedia video controller: Conexant Systems, Inc.
>>>> CX23880/1/2/3 PCI Video and Audio Decoder (rev 05)
>>>> 
>>>>         Subsystem: pcHDTV Device 3000
>>>>         Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 10
>>>>         Memory at fb000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16M]
>>>>         Capabilities: [44] Vital Product Data <?>
>>>>         Capabilities: [4c] Power Management version 2
>>>> 
>>>> 01:08.2 Multimedia controller: Conexant Systems, Inc. CX23880/1/2/3
>>>> PCI Video and Audio Decoder [MPEG Port] (rev 05)
>>>> 
>>>>         Subsystem: pcHDTV Device 3000
>>>>         Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 10
>>>>         Memory at fa000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16M]
>>>>         Capabilities: [4c] Power Management version 2
>>>> 
>>>> From an lspci
>>>> 
>>>> In a make xconfig, I cannot find this specific card in the list of
>>>> DVB front ends.  What modules do I need to make sure are being
>>>> built?
>>>
>>>You're looking for VIDEO_CX88 ("Conexant 2388x (bt878 successor)
>>>support") and its various sub-options (esp CX88_DVB). iirc the
>>>pchdtv3000 had a OR51132 tuner, but right now the config is set to
>>>auto-select a whole bunch of tuners if you have
>>>MEDIA_SUBDRV_AUTOSELECT turned on. Otherwise make sure to select that
>>>tuner device. (Hm, I appear to have both OR51132 and CX22702 enabled,
>>>and I have that same card.)
>>>
>>>  -ilia
>> 
>> or51132 rings a bell and is enabled, CX22702 is not.  And I don't seem
>> to be able to find the CX88** at all.  I'll give the CX22702 a shot,
>> thanks a bunch ilia.
>
>grep CX88 .config

That returns a linefeed only.  And I have done some dozen or so make 
oldconfigs.
>
>If it says "not set" for things like CONFIG_VIDEO_CX88_DVB, you won't
>get anything to work.
>
>  -ilia

If this fails, I'll see if I can plug that in with an editor, but the last 
time I tried that, the friggin make did an automatic oldconfig and stripped 
it.  Its enough to make one want to reduce the neighborhood cat population.

Thanks Ilia

Cheers, Gene
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