[MPlayer-users] watch tv on a Multimedia video controller: Conexant Systems, Inc. CX23887/8 PCIe Broadcast Audio and Video Decoder with 3D Comb (rev 0f)

[Antonio Olivares]

Dear folks,

A friend of mine gave me a TV card Conexant, with lspci showing:

Multimedia video controller: Conexant Systems, Inc. CX23887/8 PCIe Broadcast Audio and Video Decoder with 3D Comb (rev 0f)

and

dmesg showing

tveeprom 12-0050: Hauppauge model 78521, rev C1E9, serial# 3421116
tveeprom 12-0050: MAC address is 00:0d:fe:34:33:bc
tveeprom 12-0050: tuner model is Philips 18271_8295 (idx 149, type 54)
tveeprom 12-0050: TV standards NTSC(M) ATSC/DVB Digital (eeprom 0x88)
tveeprom 12-0050: audio processor is CX23887 (idx 42)
tveeprom 12-0050: decoder processor is CX23887 (idx 37)
tveeprom 12-0050: has radio
cx23885[0]: hauppauge eeprom: model=78521
[drm] nouveau 0000:06:00.0: 512 MiB GART (aperture)
[drm] Supports vblank timestamp caching Rev 1 (10.10.2010).
[drm] No driver support for vblank timestamp query.
cx25840 14-0044: cx23887 A/V decoder found @ 0x88 (cx23885[0])
[drm] nouveau 0000:06:00.0: 3 available performance level(s)
[drm] nouveau 0000:06:00.0: 0: core 135MHz shader 270MHz memory 135MHz voltage 850mV
[drm] nouveau 0000:06:00.0: 1: core 405MHz shader 810MHz memory 405MHz voltage 900mV
[drm] nouveau 0000:06:00.0: 3: core 520MHz shader 1238MHz memory 600MHz voltage 1000mV
[drm] nouveau 0000:06:00.0: c: core 405MHz shader 810MHz memory 405MHz voltage 900mV
[drm] nouveau 0000:06:00.0: MM: using COPY for buffer copies
[drm] nouveau 0000:06:00.0: allocated 1280x1024 fb: 0x2c0000, bo ffff880134d83000
fbcon: nouveaufb (fb0) is primary device
Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 160x64
fb0: nouveaufb frame buffer device
drm: registered panic notifier
[drm] Initialized nouveau 1.0.0 20120316 for 0000:06:00.0 on minor 0
cx25840 14-0044: unable to open firmware v4l-cx23885-avcore-01.fw
cx23885[0]: registered device video0 [v4l2]
cx23885[0]: registered device vbi0
cx23885[0]: registered ALSA audio device
cx23885[0]: registered device video1 [mpeg]
Firmware and/or mailbox pointer not initialized or corrupted, signature = 0xfff3e79b, cmd = PING_FW
ERROR: Hotplug firmware request failed (v4l-cx23885-enc.fw).
Please fix your hotplug setup, the board will not work without firmware loaded!
cx23885_initialize_codec() f/w load failed
cx23885_dvb_register() allocating 1 frontend(s)
cx23885[0]: cx23885 based dvb card
DVB: Unable to find symbol s5h1409_attach()
cx23885[0]: frontend initialization failed
cx23885_dvb_register() dvb_register failed err = -22
cx23885_dev_setup() Failed to register dvb on VID_C
cx23885_dev_checkrevision() Hardware revision = 0xb1
cx23885[0]/0: found at 0000:02:00.0, rev: 15, irq: 19, latency: 0, mmio: 0xfd400000
kvm: disabled by bios
r8169 0000:03:00.0: eth0: link down
r8169 0000:03:00.0: eth0: link down
NET: Registered protocol family 10
IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): eth0: link is not ready
r8169 0000:03:00.0: eth0: link up
IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): eth0: link becomes ready
[drm:drm_edid_block_valid] *ERROR* EDID checksum is invalid, remainder is 222
Raw EDID:
        00 ff ff ff ff ff ff 00 10 ac 5b 40 53 32 4c 35
        10 14 01 03 80 26 1e 78 ee ee 95 a3 54 4c 99 26
        0f ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
        ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
        ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
        ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
        ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
        ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
[drm:drm_edid_block_valid] *ERROR* EDID checksum is invalid, remainder is 74
Raw EDID:
        00 ff ff ff ff ff ff 00 10 ac 5b 40 53 32 4c 35
        10 14 01 03 80 26 1e 78 ee ee 95 a3 54 4c 99 26
        0f 50 54 a5 4b 00 71 4f 81 80 01 01 01 01 01 01
        01 ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
        ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
        ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
        ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
        ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
aufs may_rename_srcdir:487:Cache I/O[2600]: renaming dir who has child(ren) on multiple branches, is not supported
[drm:drm_edid_block_valid] *ERROR* EDID checksum is invalid, remainder is 43
Raw EDID:
        00 ff ff ff ff ff ff 00 10 ac 5b 40 53 32 4c 35
        10 14 01 03 80 26 1e 78 ee ee 95 a3 54 4c 99 26
        0f 50 54 a5 4b 00 71 4f 81 80 01 01 01 01 01 01
        01 01 01 01 01 01 30 2a 00 98 51 00 2a 40 30 70
        13 00 78 2d 11 00 00 1e 00 00 00 ff 00 39 4d 36
        32 43 30 34 42 35 4c 32 53 0a 00 00 00 fc 00 44
        45 4c 4c 20 50 31 39 30 53 0f ff ff ff ff ff ff
        ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff


If anyone has experience with it, please share.  I would like to watch TV using this video card.  Any suggestions, advice, comments are greatly appreciated.

Best Regards,


Antonio