Installing TV card driver kills sound in VLC

[Martin Goose]

I have installed the latest 2010 KDE full version with the standard apps and then installed VLC only. The sound is fine. KMix shows two tabbed mixers named HDA NVidia and Conexant CX8811.

Installing Kaffeine does not kill the VLC sound but as soon as I install the driver for the TV card, VLC sound is no more. The same media files play correctly in Kaffeine so I have not killed all sound, only VLC.

The TV card driver is installed using the following commands:

wget ftp://167.206.143.11/outgoing/Oxford/88x_2_119_25023_WHQL.zip
unzip -jo 88x_2_119_25023_WHQL.zip Driver88/hcw88bda.sys
dd if=hcw88bda.sys of=/lib/firmware/dvb-fe-cx24116.fw skip=81768 bs=1 count=32522

Can someone offer advice on how to diagnose this problem, and fix it?

[menotu]

Is that a Windows driver ?

[Martin Goose]

Is that a Windows driver ?

Not sure. I was given the advice on this forum back in July last year. It also needed a newer kernel that I was not able to install, in order to work so a put the matter on hold.  When 2010 beta arrived, I tried again and it just worked.

[helmut singh]

It is actually the windows version firmware driver, the command you issue extracts the firmware (dvb-fe-cx24116.fw) to your /lib/firmware folder, would be a good idea to see it is actually in the /lib/firmware folder of your root partition. Personally I would use kaffeine for tv viewing of your Hauppage sat card, far easier to setup. As the sound issue goes I would imagine you have your sound devices setup in the wrong order, in kmix I would bet that Conexant CX8811 is on the first tab?

[Martin Goose]

It is actually the windows version firmware driver, the command you issue extracts the firmware (dvb-fe-cx24116.fw) to your /lib/firmware folder, would be a good idea to see it is actually in the /lib/firmware folder of your root partition.

Yes it is there.

Personally I would use kaffeine for tv viewing of your Hauppage sat card, far easier to setup.

Yes that is what I am doing. I only use VLC for playing audio and video files as I have been using it for a long time and am very happy with the way I have it set up and the wide range of codecs supported.

As the sound issue goes I would imagine you have your sound devices setup in the wrong order, in kmix I would bet that Conexant CX8811 is on the first tab?

Yes it is the first tab. I previously wondered if this might be a clue but did not know if this was true or how to change things. Perhaps there is a config file somewhere listing the sound devices which needs to be edited?

[helmut singh]

In /etc/modprobe.d you need to have a file called "options" if its not there then create it and open it and add

Code: [Select]

options cx88_alsa index=1 then save and reboot.

[Martin Goose]

That worked a treat. Thanks.

I just need to keep a note of what I did in case I need to do a future reinstall.