[mythtv-users] NOVA-T Hauppauge testing to see if my card is working

Stephen Kitchener stephen at g6dzj.demon.co.uk
Mon Aug 22 19:27:22 UTC 2005


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..

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.

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


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 ??


Any help appriciated...Any more info required, please ask.

Thanks

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