[mythtv-users] Still can't figure out Avermedia AvertTV A180

Nick Morrott knowledgejunkie at gmail.com
Mon Jun 4 02:02:22 UTC 2007


On 03/06/07, Marc Barrett <mnealbarrett at cox.net> wrote:
> I'm still battling trying to get this card to work.  A web page somewhere indicated there might be a conflict
> between the saa7134 driver being hotplugged, and the saa7134-dvb which needs to be loaded, so I added
> 'blacklist saa7134' to /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.  Now, when I do '/sbin/modprobe saa7134-dvb' manually, a
> video device 'video0' shows up in /dev.  Here is part of my dmesg:
>
> Linux video capture interface: v2.00
> saa7130/34: v4l2 driver version 0.2.14 loaded
> ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:02:0b.0[A] -> GSI 19 (level, low) -> IRQ 17
> saa7130[0]: found at 0000:02:0b.0, rev: 1, irq: 17, latency: 32, mmio: 0xfa001000
> saa7130[0]: subsystem: 1461:1044, board: UNKNOWN/GENERIC [card=0,autodetected]

Has the card been autodetected correctly?

> saa7130[0]: board init: gpio is 10400
> saa7130[0]: i2c eeprom 00: 61 14 44 10 54 20 1c 00 43 43 a9 1c 55 d2 b2 92
> saa7130[0]: i2c eeprom 10: 00 ff 86 0f ff 20 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
> saa7130[0]: i2c eeprom 20: 01 40 01 02 02 ff 01 03 06 ff 00 10 00 00 00 00
> saa7130[0]: i2c eeprom 30: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
> saa7130[0]: i2c eeprom 40: ff 64 00 c2 14 16 ff ff 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
> saa7130[0]: i2c eeprom 50: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
> saa7130[0]: i2c eeprom 60: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
> saa7130[0]: i2c eeprom 70: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
> saa7130[0]: registered device video0 [v4l2]
> saa7130[0]: registered device vbi0

These devices are the 'standard' V4L analog devices.

> However, when I run mythtvsetup, it does not see any cards in the 'DVB DTV capture card (v3.x)' part.
> It says "Frontend id: could not open card #0 subtype: no such ...  " and the rest is cut off.  It says the same
> for the other subtypes.

Run

# modprobe saa7134-dvb

if this module has not loaded (check with lsmod), and then check
/dev/dvb* and your syslog to see if the DVB portion of the card has
been detected and loaded.

-- 
Nick

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