I posted the stuff below on the mythtvtalk forum and it's been a few days and I've heard nothing. I've also searched for answers elsewhere, but no go. Since I'm running my setup under gentoo, I thought I try this list. I hope you don't mind.
I recently acquired a new Hauppauge WinTV 1600 and have successfully gotten the analog side working with the analog channels (1-99). That is, I can plug my (Comcast) cable from the wall to the tuner card's analog input and get the basic cable channels. However, the whole reason for getting tv tuner card and mythtv was to record japanTV, which is beyond channel 99 and requires a set top box to watch it on the TV. I've read the installation instructions for the ATSC input of the card but I'm having problems and am aware of the IR blaster option. I suppose the main problem . . . the one causing the other problems like not getting any channels is that mythtv is not "seeing" my card. When I go to configure the capture card there is not DVB DTV card type offered, which suggests to me that card is not being "seen." Suggestions? I have posted below some various info, but before that I want to ask one more thing, if all were fine, should it be the case that I plug the cable from the wall to the ATSC input (i.e., not through the set top box) and it just work (as if it were the set top box)? Thanks for your time. -neal russell ~ # uname -a Linux russell 2.6.30-gentoo-r5 #1 SMP Sun Aug 30 04:58:43 CDT 2009 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) Processor AuthenticAMD GNU/Linux russell ~ # dmesg | grep cx18 cx18: Start initialization, version 1.2.0 cx18-0: Initializing card 0 cx18-0: Autodetected Hauppauge card cx18 0000:00:11.0: PCI INT A -> Link[LNKA] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ 11 cx18-0: Unreasonably low latency timer, setting to 64 (was 32) cx18-0: cx23418 revision 01010000 (B) cx18-0: Autodetected Hauppauge HVR-1600 cx18-0: Simultaneous Digital and Analog TV capture supported IRQ 11/cx18-0: IRQF_DISABLED is not guaranteed on shared IRQs tuner 2-0061: chip found @ 0xc2 (cx18 i2c driver #0-1) cs5345 1-004c: chip found @ 0x98 (cx18 i2c driver #0-0) cx18-0: Registered device video0 for encoder MPEG (64 x 32 kB) DVB: registering new adapter (cx1 cx18-0: DVB Frontend registered cx18-0: Registered DVB adapter0 for TS (32 x 32 kB) cx18-0: Registered device video32 for encoder YUV (16 x 128 kB) cx18-0: Registered device vbi0 for encoder VBI (20 x 51984 bytes) cx18-0: Registered device video24 for encoder PCM audio (256 x 4 kB) cx18-0: Initialized card: Hauppauge HVR-1600 cx18: End initialization russell ~ # dmesg | grep DVB DVB: registering new adapter (cx1 DVB: registering adapter 0 frontend 0 (Samsung S5H1409 QAM/8VSB Frontend)... cx18-0: DVB Frontend registered cx18-0: Registered DVB adapter0 for TS (32 x 32 kB) lspci -v output: 00:11.0 Multimedia video controller: Conexant CX23418 Single-Chip MPEG-2 Encoder with Integrated Analog Video/Broadcast Audio Decoder Subsystem: Hauppauge computer works Inc. Device 7444 Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 11 Memory at f0000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64M] Capabilities: [44] Vital Product Data <?> Capabilities: [4c] Power Management version 2 Kernel driver in use: cx18 Kernel modules: cx18
