[pvrusb2] Hauppauge 1950 Install?

[Justin Piszcz]

On Mon, 16 Nov 2009, Joel Mayer wrote:

> Justin-
>
> I copied the tarball you sent me- Hauppauge1950.Linux -to a CD
> and then copied it off the CD to the Desktop on my SuSE Linux
> 11.1 distro on my dual boot laptop.
>
> For a time I tried various linux 'add remove program' strategies to
> install the software you sent. Nothing worked, but after a while I
> saw a folder labeled Hauppauge1950.Linux on my Desktop as well
> as the card board box the tarball came in.
>
> So then I went to a terminal and got myself root privileges. After
> running cd Desktop I typed in: zypper install Hauppauge1950.Linux
>
> The output looked like: "Retrieving repository 'KDE:KDE3' metadata
> [done] .... Loading repository data ... Reading installed packages
> ... Hauppauge1950.Linux not found ... Resolving package dependencies
> Nothing to do ...
>
> Mike-
>
> As you suggested, I ran the following command: "perl -v". The
> output read: This is perl, v5.10.0 built for i586 -linux thread- multi
> copywright 1987- 2007 Larry Wall
>
> Next with root privileges I typed in: perl fwextract_new.pl
> The output was: fewextract version: fwextract.pl 2422 2009-11-12
> 08:01:132   Reading internal configuration data base   driver path
> is win_driver Extracting firmware files from driver directory   Failed
> to locate any files to scan anywhere with win_driver
>
> As a last resort I entered the command: sudo mythtv-setup
> The reply to this was: cannot connect to X server. I then backed
> out of the terminal and went to MythTV through "Applications" ->
> "Multimedia". Like it always does, the Myth TV set up program
> told me- unpnpNotFound (universal plug and play device not
> found).
>
> Ideas? Suggestions?
>
> Thanks Again / Joel Mayer / joelm_audion at msn.com<mailto:joelm_audion at msn.com>
>
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Hello,

You need to extract the files into the /lib/firmware directory.

As root, run the following where you saved the tar.bz2:

1. tar jxf Ha*bz2
2. mv Ha*re/* /lib/firmware

Then unload/reload the kernel modules and/or reboot and then show us your 
output from dmesg.

Try to get the device to work with mplayer first before trying to get 
MythTV to work.

Justin.