Hauppauge HVR2200 installed but scanning fails. Help needed

[miketimberlake]

Hello all you lovely Linux people! I'm tearing my hair out trying to get this Happuauger HVR2200 installed, and I badly need your help.

Just so you know where I'm cmoing from, I wouldn't call myself a Linux Noob, but I'm not far from it. Usually I'll read forums until I find the answer to my problem, and I almost never post on forums for help. But, in this case, I've

read all the forums I can and now find myself going in circles after 2 days of trying..

Please help! I feel that I'm really close, but missing something very simple...

Here's how thiings stand.

I'm trying to install the card on a headless Open Media Vault box, which is running debian 2.6.32 64 bit kernel. I plan to use Tvheadend to get the output to another computer, if it ever works...

Basically, the card appears to be installed properly, and femon reports a good signal, but w_scan does not find any channels. The only slightly non-standard aspect of my build is that the TV card is inserted in the pci-e 16x slot. I

should also say that I'm not sure what signal/s I'm getting into my card, as I live in a block, with some kind of shared arial. But, as femon tells me I'm getting a very strong signal, that doesn't appear to be the problem.

The module was inserted like this:

insmod saa7164 card=4

THE GOOD:

lspci -v produces:

04:00.0 Multimedia controller: Philips Semiconductors SAA7164 (rev 81)
Subsystem: Hauppauge computer works Inc. WinTV HVR-2200 (submodel 89619)
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 16
Memory at fd400000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4M]
Memory at fd000000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4M]
Capabilities: [40] MSI: Enable- Count=1/16 Maskable- 64bit+
Capabilities: [50] Express Endpoint, MSI 00
Capabilities: [74] Power Management version 3
Capabilities: [7c] Vendor Specific Information: Len=84 <?>
Capabilities: [100] Vendor Specific Information: ID=0000 Rev=0 Len=060 <?>
Capabilities: [160] Virtual Channel
Kernel driver in use: saa7164

lsmod produces:
saa7164 44937 0
tda18271 40933 2

femon produces:
FE: NXP TDA10048HN DVB-T (DVBT)
status | signal fdfd | snr 00d7 | ber 0000ffff | unc 00000000 |
status | signal ffff | snr 0000 | ber 0000ffff | unc 00000000 |
status | signal fbfb | snr 00b9 | ber 0000ffff | unc 00000000 |

THE BAD:

w_scan -c PL produces:

w_scan version 20100316 (compiled for DVB API 5.1)
using settings for POLAND
DVB aerial
DVB-T Europe
frontend_type DVB-T, channellist 4
output format vdr-1.6
Info: using DVB adapter auto detection.
/dev/dvb/adapter0/frontend0 -> DVB-T "NXP TDA10048HN DVB-T": good
/dev/dvb/adapter1/frontend0 -> DVB-T "NXP TDA10048HN DVB-T": good
Using DVB-T frontend (adapter /dev/dvb/adapter0/frontend0)
-_-_-_-_ Getting frontend capabilities-_-_-_-_
Using DVB API 5.2
frontend NXP TDA10048HN DVB-T supports
INVERSION_AUTO
QAM_AUTO
TRANSMISSION_MODE_AUTO
GUARD_INTERVAL_AUTO
HIERARCHY_AUTO
FEC_AUTO
-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_
Scanning 7MHz frequencies...
177500: (time: 00:00)
184500: (time: 00:03)
191500: (time: 00:05)
(etC)
Scanning 8MHz frequencies...
474000: (time: 00:20)
482000: (time: 00:23)
490000: (time: 00:26)
(etc)
ERROR: Sorry - i couldn't get any working frequency/transponder
Nothing to scan!!

I get a warning at when the module is loaded at boot that I'm using an outdated/obsolete driver, but when I try to compile the latest Video for Linux Drivers the compilation fails with:

build failed at ./build line 452.


I've tried patching the build as per the instructions here:

http://www.linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php/How_to_Obtain,_Build_and_Install_V4L-DVB_Device_Drivers

but I don't really understand the instructions, so my attempt to apply the patch/es doesn't make any difference to the build error.

Lastly this:

$ hg clone http://kernellabs.com/hg/saa7164-stable/
$ make menuconfig

fails with:

make[3]: *** No rule to make target `/lib/modules/2.6.32-5-686/source/scripts/basic/Makefile'. Stop.
make[2]: *** [scripts_basic] Error 2
make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.32-5-686'
make[1]: *** [/lib/modules/2.6.32-5-686/build/scripts/kconfig/mconf] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/mike/saa7164-stable/v4l'
make: *** [menuconfig] Error 2

[miketimberlake]

sorry to bump, but bump!

I managed to get the card installed properly after upgrading my kernel. At least it *appears* to be installed properly, but now I can't get any results from tuning it.

Strangely, femon shows very good signal strength, whether or not the antenna is attached.


w_scan -c PL

w_scan version 20120605 (compiled for DVB API 5.4)
using settings for POLAND
DVB aerial
DVB-T Europe
scan type TERRESTRIAL, channellist 4
output format vdr-1.6
WARNING: could not guess your codepage. Falling back to 'UTF-8'
output charset 'UTF-8', use -C <charset> to override
Info: using DVB adapter auto detection.
        /dev/dvb/adapter0/frontend0 -> TERRESTRIAL "NXP TDA10048HN DVB-T": good :-)
        /dev/dvb/adapter1/frontend0 -> TERRESTRIAL "NXP TDA10048HN DVB-T": good :-)
Using TERRESTRIAL frontend (adapter /dev/dvb/adapter0/frontend0)
-_-_-_-_ Getting frontend capabilities-_-_-_-_
Using DVB API 5.4
frontend 'NXP TDA10048HN DVB-T' supports
INVERSION_AUTO
QAM_AUTO
TRANSMISSION_MODE_AUTO
GUARD_INTERVAL_AUTO
HIERARCHY_AUTO
FEC_AUTO
FREQ (177.00MHz ... 858.00MHz)
-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_
Scanning 7MHz frequencies...
177500: (time: 00:01)
184500: (time: 00:03)
191500: (time: 00:06)
198500: (time: 00:08)
205500: (time: 00:11)
212500: (time: 00:14)
219500: (time: 00:16)
226500: (time: 00:19)
Scanning 8MHz frequencies...
474000: (time: 00:21)
482000: (time: 00:24)
490000: (time: 00:26)
498000: (time: 00:29)
506000: (time: 00:32)
514000: (time: 00:34)
522000: (time: 00:37)
530000: (time: 00:39)
538000: (time: 00:42)
546000: (time: 00:44)
554000: (time: 00:47)
562000: (time: 00:50)
570000: (time: 00:52)
578000: (time: 00:55)
586000: (time: 00:57)
594000: (time: 01:00)
602000: (time: 01:02)
610000: (time: 01:05)
618000: (time: 01:08)
626000: (time: 01:10)
634000: (time: 01:13)
642000: (time: 01:15)
650000: (time: 01:18)
658000: (time: 01:20)
666000: (time: 01:23)
674000: (time: 01:26)
682000: (time: 01:28)
690000: (time: 01:31)
698000: (time: 01:33)
706000: (time: 01:36)
714000: (time: 01:38)
722000: (time: 01:41)
730000: (time: 01:43)
738000: (time: 01:46)
746000: (time: 01:49)
754000: (time: 01:51)
762000: (time: 01:54)
770000: (time: 01:56)
778000: (time: 01:59)
786000: (time: 02:01)
794000: (time: 02:04)
802000: (time: 02:07)
810000: (time: 02:09)
818000: (time: 02:12)
826000: (time: 02:14)
834000: (time: 02:17)
842000: (time: 02:19)
850000: (time: 02:22)
858000: (time: 02:25)

ERROR: Sorry - i couldn't get any working frequency/transponder
 Nothing to scan!!