Backup of a NZ-modified UK-2.5.5

**thomson** · 12-04-2005, 12:38 PM

Originally Posted by samjohnson

The reason I was investigating using the UK image was to get menus that are in PAL resolution and having on-screen access to the Recorder and Phone setup menus.

Haha... I must agree with you there. It is also annoying to have the playback "progress bar" appear near the middle of the picture rather than at the bottom... you hit pause, and the bits that you were intending to study a little closer are covered up

Seriously though, I have done a bit of playing with the tivoapp binary and may (one day) have a look to see if I can locate where the position of the progress bar is stored. I located the segment in the UK image where the progress bar is sized so as to extend the LiveTV buffer (this was done to expand the bufferhack utility). I should be able to use the offsets for the US binary in the bufferhack utility and work backwards to find the location... but assembler can get pretty tedious... and time is limited

Lately I have been playing around with the On Screen Display (OSD) in order to fix up a few quirks with JPEGwriter and the TCS application... only to notice that even though we may run a US system in PAL, the OSD still seems to still be NTSC (likely as the result of it being controlled via ioctl's to a non-PAL kernel module)... I am still playing around with this, but I think making the v3.0 menus more PAL-friendly could be rather difficult (and way too much work for anyone to attempt).

**jph116** · 21-04-2005, 05:52 AM

Sorry – I have been out of town the last days.

Thanks for all your help – I tried the image from ozTIVO – works great!! (Not knowing that it actually is a backup-file – if not for Thomson, thanks - you are the top). I just renamed the file to tivo.bak and made a restore.

I also got an image from UK (thanks Peter) – if any one can use it, sendt me a PM.

Joergen (Denmark)

**jph116** · 30-04-2005, 05:20 AM

Still working great – no freezing at all (2 weeks runtime)

Everything works except the channels themselves - a couple works but this is just because they happen to match the frequencies used in Nz.

I have to built a new ukchan-2.5.5.o whit the right channels for Denmark - needs to modify ukchan-2.5.5.c and then compile it to Linux.

Unfortunately I know absolutely nothing about UNIX, Perl or Linux – so I have to ask if there are someone how are willing to compile it for me ??

Nr. MHz
1 48,25
2 55,25
3 175,25
4 182,25
5 189,25
6 203,25
7 210,25
8 217,25
9 439,25
10 471,25
11 479,25
12 495,25
13 502,25
14 511,25
15 519,25
16 535,25
17 543,25
18 599,25
19 607,25
20 615,25
21 647,25
22 655,25
23 663,25
24 679,25
25 711,25
26 759,25
27 775,25
28 815,25
29 823,25
30 831,25
31 839,25

Thanks in advance
Joergen

**thomson** · 30-04-2005, 07:38 AM

Originally Posted by jph116

I have to build a new ukchan-2.5.5.o with the right channels for Denmark - need to modify ukchan-2.5.5.c and then compile it to Linux.

No worries, expect it shortly, attached to this post. Something to note however is that you have provided the frequency list in the broadcast order.... that chances are your Channel 1 is not on Freq 1, and Channel 2 is not on Freq 2, etc...

When I compile the module for myself, I reorder the frequency table so that when I select '2' I get TV2, and '4' will give me 'C4', etc...

Code:

    { 1,   45250 },  /* freq:  1 - TV1      */
    { 2,  182250 },  /* freq:  5 - TV2      */
    { 3,  224250 },  /* freq: 11 - TV3      */
    { 4,   55250 },  /* freq:  2 - C4       */
    { 5,  783250 },  /* freq: 60 - Prime    */
    { 6,  655250 },  /* freq: 44 - Maori TV */
    { 7,  623250 },  /* freq: 40 - UHF40    */

I will give you a generic slice with all your frequencies, but if you wish to reorder them then just post here and I will post another custom one for you.

I have attached a custom ukchan module (ukchan-2.5.5_dk-nicam.o) with source for you... let me know if there are any problems.

**jph116** · 01-05-2005, 07:41 AM

Thanks a million !!!

Unfortunately I must have made an error installing – no channels at all. First I tried to rename ukchan-2.5.5_dk-nicam.o to ukchan-2.5.5.o and then a simple replace – Then copy ukchan-2.5.5_dk-nicam.o to /lib/modules and corrected rc.sysinit. No effect - I will give it an other try Sunday and report back to you.

Appreciate your offer to reorder the channels for me:

{ 0, 0 },
{ 1, 48250 }, /* freq: 1 – DR 1 */
{ 2, 175250 }, /* freq: 3 – TV 2 */
{3, 502250 }, /* freq: 13 – TV 3 */
{4, 495250 }, /* freq: 12 – TV 3+ */
{5, 527250 }, /* freq: 16 – TV 4 */
{ 6, 217250 }, /* freq: 8 – DK */
{7, 711250 }, /* freq: 26 – ZULU */
{8, 55250 }, /* freq: 2 – DR 2 */
{9, 839250 }, /* freq: 32 – Discovery */
{10, 189250 }, /* freq: 5 – SV 1 */
{11, 203250 }, /* freq: 6 – SV 2 */
{12, 471250 }, /* freq: 10 – NO 2 */
{13, 182250 }, /* freq: 4 – KBH */
{14, 815250 }, /* freq: 29 – CNN */
{15, 775250 }, /* freq: 28 – TCM */
{16, 679250 }, /* freq: 25 – Cartoon */
{17, 479250 }, /* freq: 11 – KABEL 1 */
{18, 439250 }, /* freq: 9 – TV 5 */
{19, 210250 }, /* freq: 7 – ITV */
{20, 511250 }, /* freq: 14 – ZDF */
{21, 519250 }, /* freq: 15 – DW */
{22, 535250 }, /* freq: 17 – RTL */
{23, 543250 }, /* freq: 18 – N 3 */
{24, 599250 }, /* freq: 19 – SAT 1 */
{25, 607250 }, /* freq: 20 – TRT */
{26, 615250 }, /* freq: 21 – ARD */
{27, 647250 }, /* freq: 22 – 3 SAT */
{28, 655250 }, /* freq: 23 – VOX */
{29, 663250 }, /* freq: 24 – PRO 7 */
{30, 759250 }, /* freq: 27 – CHARLIE */
{31, 823250 }, /* freq: 30 – MTV */
{32, 831250 }, /* freq: 31 – EUROSPORT */

Hopes the setup is useful.

Thanks again
Joergen

**thomson** · 01-05-2005, 02:14 PM

Originally Posted by jph116

Unfortunately I must have made an error installing – no channels at all. First I tried to rename ukchan-2.5.5_dk-nicam.o to ukchan-2.5.5.o and then a simple replace – Then copy ukchan-2.5.5_dk-nicam.o to /lib/modules and corrected rc.sysinit. No effect - I will give it an other try Sunday and report back to you.

I have attached the version with your channel order in it. You should just need to replace the insmod line in the rc.sysinit.author and reboot. My entry reads "insmod /var/hack/UKChan/ukchan-2.5.5_nz-wgtn.o"

You can check what modules are loaded using 'cat /proc/modules'. Should look something like this:

Code:

ukchan-2.5.5_nz-wgtn     856   0 (unused)
ax88796                 5008   0 (unused)
mixaud                  5872   1
scartmux                2628   1
pxmpegdecode           65260   0 [scartmux]
therm                   1164   0 (unused)
fan                      976   0
fpga7114              146156   5 [ukchan-2.5.5_nz-wgtn scartmux]
i2c                    10480   0 [ukchan-2.5.5_nz-wgtn scartmux pxmpegdecode therm fpga7114]

FYI: Modules can be removed using 'rmmod' which is actually the same binary as 'insmod' so if you do not have that command you can create it using the following:

Code:

# rw
# cd /sbin
# ln -s insmod rmmod
# ro

**jph116** · 02-05-2005, 04:27 AM

Thanks again Thomson – should you ever be around the Copenhagen area I will buy you the biggest and coldest beer in town.

Don’t know that I am doing wrong – but I can’t se any channels at all.

Copied the new ukchan-2.5.5_dk-nicam.o to /lib/modules

Changed /ect/rc.d/rc.sysinit from:

echo "PALmod: Setting Oz Channel Frequencies"
insmod -f /lib/modules/ukchan-2.5.5.o

to

echo "PALmod: Setting Oz Channel Frequencies"
insmod -f /lib/modules/ukchan-2.5.5_dk-nicam.o

After reboot Cat /proc/modules look like this:

[TiVo [p0] ~]# cat /proc/modules
turbonet2 12032 1
mixaud 5872 1
cachecard 279864 0 (unused)
scartmux 2628 1
ukchan-2.5.5_dk-nicam 1064 0 (unused)
pxmpegdecode 65260 0 [scartmux]
therm 1164 0 (unused)
fan 976 0
ideturbo 4920 0 (unused)
fpga7114 146156 5 [scartmux ukchan-2.5.5_dk-nicam]
i2c 10480 0 [scartmux ukchan-2.5.5_dk-nicam pxmpegdecode therm fpga7114]
[TiVo [p0] ~]#

All with out any effect – no channels at all.

If I change it back to the old ukchan-2.5.5.o (from NZ) then I have the channels back as before.

I have been working with it all Sunday – very proud of my self - but total lost.
I have learned a lot after all and will give it an other try Monday or Tuesday.

Will keep you posted – but any proposal is welcome

Joergen

**thomson** · 02-05-2005, 06:37 AM

Originally Posted by jph116

Don’t know that I am doing wrong – but I can’t see any channels at all.

Module is loading correctly, so I am not sure what is going wrong. The attached version has a couple of debug lines added. It will write messages to the /var/log/kernel file. The messages will be tagged with 'getFreq_x' and should display the channel that the TiVo is trying to change to, along with the frequency. Things to watch are that the channels being used are 1-32... if they are not then the chances are that your headend has the wrong channels in it. You can either change the headend and reload it... or the simpler approach is to use the ChannelMap module to remap the channels correctly.

**jph116** · 03-05-2005, 06:50 AM

I’m not sure how - but now it works perfectly.

After loading the file – clear and delete everything – all channels in place

Dear Thomson - Thank you so must for all your help

Appreciate it – Joergen

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