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>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) Well,. I don't have /MAKEDEV inside /dev or elseware, what's why I am convinced that my system is useing /udev... >>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 I do have this installed and lt have the correct perms and settings >>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 I am using 2.6.8.1-12 on a madrake 10.1 system >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. If I do that all I get in dmesg is... saa7146: register extension 'budget_ci dvb' Nothing else happens >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... :) I have had a look at that, looks ok, but I am trying to do this with the installed kernel and installing the modules that exist, it should be possible... >> >>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 -- O o _\_ o \\/ o\ . //\___= '' RHCT 603005411793211 RHCE 804005830215073 Mon, 22 Aug 2005 23:30:11 +0100 23:30:11 up 7:59, 1 user, load average: 1.52, 1.54, 1.50 We prefer to speak evil of ourselves rather than not speak of ourselves at all.
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