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sip03ds

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Registered: 2009-07-09

Posts: 21

Hauppauge HVR 900H

Dear all,

Has anyone managed to make the following TV tuner working (http://www.hauppauge.co.uk/site/product … vr900.html).

with lsusb, the stick is visible to the system, but the kernel does not load any modules. I tried to manually load the drivers with:

modprobe em28xx
modprobe em28xx-dvb
modprobe em28xx-alsa

but no device is created on /dev/video0

I am using the latest kernel.

Any ideas would be really appreaciated, thank you!

sip03ds

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Registered: 2009-07-09

Posts: 21

Re: Hauppauge HVR 900H

It seems my usb stick's chipset is Trident (tm6000 ??), does anyone know which modules I need to load?

Thank you again for your aid.

pigiron

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From: USA

Registered: 2009-07-14

Posts: 150

Re: Hauppauge HVR 900H

I spent a few hours looking into this because I know the trouble I had getting my Hauppauge HVR950Q running, so I know how lonely it can feel.

First a bit of advice. Don't pay (too) much attention to the model number (HVR 900H). Hauppauge is as bad as the network hardware folks about changing the chips inside their devices without changing the model number. Instead, concentrate on the VendorID:DeviceID. This should be displayed in the output of the "lsusb" command. For instance, my Hauppauge shows up like this:

# lsusb
Bus 007 Device 002: ID 2040:7240 Hauppauge

So the VendorID:DeviceID is 2040:7240. It's this number combination that the kernel will use to load the correct device driver.

So... for the following, I'm going to assume that your 900H has a VendorID:DeviceID of 2040:6600 or 2040:6601 or 2040:6610 or 2040:6611...

From my poking around in Google, the bad news is that it currently doesn't seem to be supported. The good news is that it may be supported in the (near) future.

I say that, because I ran across this thread:

http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.d … ture/17736

which led me to this:

http://www.mail-archive.com/linux-media … 16498.html

which got me to here:

http://git.linuxtv.org/awalls/v4l-dvb.g … 4f;hb=HEAD

which shows that it may be sitting in the 2.6.35-rc3 staging directory.

So perhaps you'll help test this staging driver???

Edit: forgot to add... be sure to pay attention to the dmesg output when you plug in the device (usually a lot of good info there). Also, you may have to hunt down the device's firmware... at least I had to for my 950Q.

Last edited by pigiron (2010-06-25 01:03:48)

sip03ds

Member

Registered: 2009-07-09

Posts: 21

Re: Hauppauge HVR 900H

Thank you for the info, but I will need aid in order to setup the kernel with the staging driver.

$lsusb
Bus 001 Device 003: ID 2040:6600 Hauppauge

and

$dmesg
usb 1-6: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 3

I suppose that using yaourt and installing the following package will lead in having the driver.

$ sudo yaourt -Ss kernel | grep "2.6.35"
aur/kernel26-rc 2.6.35rc3-1 (48)

Any help (tutorial maybe) for performing any the test will be appreciated.

Thanks again !

kYd

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Registered: 2009-01-20

Posts: 78

Re: Hauppauge HVR 900H

I've have the same model, and I've been endlessly searching for months for any solutions to get this device working.