[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)

[Jonathan Isom]

On Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at 8:06 AM, Antonio Olivares
<olivares14031 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 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)
>
You are on the wrong list for this, however it looks like you need the
firmware "v4l-cx23885-avcore-01.fw" for it. I think the list you want
is linux-media btw.

HTH

Jonathan

> 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
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