Stephen Kitchener wrote: >Hi, > >I would like to able to see if my card is working before I get into the full >mythtv install process, so I tried to install the modules as described in >various howto's and documents that I have found, but I have not been able to >get the frontend installed or get the device entries added to /dev/ or /udev >as Ithink my machine has. I am running Mandrake 10.1 and I think that it is >udev, someone will correct me I am sure.. > > I had to: cd /dev ./MAKEDEV dvb (and FWIW, on Debian IIRC it didn't work properly - I think I had to manually create the /dev/dvb/ dir - maybe just my system)
>Anyway her is what I have done, > >I found on one document that I needed to have dvb-ttpci-01.fw installed >in /usr/lib/hotplug/firmware and another site said that I needed to have >dvb-fe-tda10045.fw and yet another said that I needed tda1004x.mc, so I am a >little confused as to what I need to have in /usr/lib/hotplug/firmware. > > teak:/# ll /usr/lib/hotplug/firmware/ -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 30555 2005-08-11 18:34 dvb-fe-tda10045.fw >However, when I run these commands as described on >http://www.ethics-gradient.net/myth/mythdvb2.html > >modprobe v4l1-compat >modprobe v4l2-common >modprobe video-buf >modprobe dvb-core >modprobe tda1004x >modprobe saa7146 >modprobe saa7146_vv >modprobe ttpci-eeprom >modprobe budget >modprobe budget-ci > > I am using 2.6.12.4 Here are my modules: Module Size Used by budget_ci 11520 7 tda1004x 14724 1 budget_ci firmware_class 7936 1 budget_ci budget_core 7428 1 budget_ci dvb_core 76072 2 budget_ci,budget_core saa7146 15240 2 budget_ci,budget_core ttpci_eeprom 2432 1 budget_core stv0299 10888 1 budget_ci I just modprobe budget_ci and it brings the rest in. I don't have saa7146_vv - try and get rid of that... I put some notes on the kernel config here: http://www.linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php/TDA10045 please verify... :) > >and look in dmesg for the results, I get half the answer expected, ie >saa7146: register extension 'budget dvb'. >PCI: Found IRQ 3 for device 0000:00:0b.0 >PCI: Sharing IRQ 3 with 0000:00:0c.0 >saa7146: found saa7146 @ mem f8bde000 (revision 1, irq 3) (0x13c2,0x1005). >DVB: registering new adapter (TT-Budget/WinTV-NOVA-T PCI). >TT-Budget/WinTV-NOVA-T PCI adapter 0 has MAC addr = 00:d0:5c:21:82:cd > >However I don't get the line saying that the front end was installed or >detected. > >What can I do to rectify this please ?? Am I missing modules that I need to >install ?? > >I am running Mandrake 10.1 with a 2.6 kernel and I am using a Hauppauge Nova-t >card that "lspci -v" gives as a result this.. > >00:0b.0 Multimedia controller: Philips Semiconductors SAA7146 (rev 01) > Subsystem: Technotrend Systemtechnik GmbH Technotrend-Budget / >Hauppauge WinTV-NOVA-T DVB card > Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 3 > Memory at ed800000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=512] > >I have tried to run kaffine, I realise that this isn't a kaffine list but at >least it will give me an idication of the card working or not. I reports that >if can't find the dev device, is that because the front-end isn't being >initialised ?? > > I suspect so. I found Kaffiene to be excellent to get things going :) David _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users