[mythtv-users] HD3000, Sarge, AMD64 SMP, 0.19 from deb, Could not get card info for card #0! Subtype: Success!

[Joe Votour]

--- David Cain <sblkMythUser at jimmiedave.com> wrote:

> I've been trying to get a dual HD3000 backend-only
> system working since 
> March, and finally gotta buy a vowel. I've built
> MythTV systems twice 
> before (PVR-350, Ubuntu Hoary, Sarge) but this is
> the first time with 
> HD3000 cards, and first time with a backend-only
> machine.
> 
> I'm using Sarge - the AMD64 unofficial distro, with
> an SMP setup, 
> kernel 2.6.15 from backports. I'm using the 0.19
> debs from Christian 
> Marillat's repository, have mastered getting
> mythtv-setup to connect to 
> X remotely (that is, I don't have X installed on the
> backend) and am 
> tantilizingly close to getting some TV recorded.
> MythTV works - except 
> for tuning.
> 
> I have the pcHDTV tuner cards set up as DVB-T
> devices. However, the 
> capture card setup page in mythtv-setup says:
> 
> "Could not get card info for card #0! Subtype:      
>  Success"
> 
> I get the same info for card #1. However, when I
> switch to a DVB Card 
> Number that I know doesn't exist, I get:
> 
> "Could not open card #3! Subtype         No such
> file or directory"
> 
> So I know that MythTV sees SOMETHING there, but is
> having trouble 
> talking to it.
> 
> The only messages I see on the list archive are from
> people using 
> versions 0.17 and 0.18 (and maybe older). Didn't see
> anything recent 
> (or particularly useful) about this.
> 
> I previously tried using the pcHDTV card type (which
> I now hear are 
> mainly for the HD2000 card - gee, somebody should
> label it as such!), 
> and while the pcHDTV card type would scan channels
> and get lock onto a 
> number of OTA digital channels near me (Atlanta, GA,
> USA) it would only 
> record completely black 1080i mpegs.
> 
> I know the first responses will be "give me more
> info". Happy to do so. 
> I haven't found anything in backend logs that I
> thought was revealing, 
> but please, ask away.
> 
> Any help is appreciated!
> 
> DC
> 
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Does the user that you're running mythtv-setup as have
read/write permissions to the DVB cards?

I now run a dedicated backend system, and I configured
it the same way (using X11 forwarding to my frontend).
 Since mythbackend runs as root on my backend, I just
ran mythtv-setup as root also, that way I didn't have
to play around with device permissions (which Fedora
Core happily clobbers when you don't login through the
terminal/X).

-- Joe

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