[mythtv-users] Nova T PCI

[John Veness]

Tim Sawyer wrote:
> On Saturday 12 Apr 2008, John Veness wrote:
>> Tim Sawyer wrote:
>>> On Friday 11 Apr 2008, Nick Morrott wrote:
>>>> On 11/04/2008, Tim Sawyer <mythtv at calidris.co.uk> wrote:
>>>>> Hi Folks,
>>>>>
>>>>>  Given my trouble with the Nova-T-500, I've got hold of a couple of
>>>>> Nova-T PCI cards.
>>>>>
>>>>>  I can't find anywhere how to set them up in mythtv.  What kind of card
>>>>> are they?  There is nothing on any of the wiki pages suggesting how to
>>>>> set this card up.
>>>> They're standard DVB cards, same as the Nova T-500. Set them up the
>>>> same as you would the Nova T-500.
>>> Hmm.  They don't show up in the same place in the config.  I've set them
>>> up as MPEG2 cards, using /dev/video0 and /dev/video1 and they don't work,
>>> trying to watch live TV just gives me a black screen then it returns back
>>> to the myth menu.
>> They're not MPEG2 cards, they are DVB, so you need to select DVB when
>> adding the card, then look for card 2, 3, 4 etc. If that isn't working,
>> what does lspci say, and what do you have in your /dev/dvb folder?
> 
> tjs at mythtv:/dev/dvb$ ls
> adapter0  adapter1
> 
> These two are probably the T-500 card?

Yep. There should be adapter2 and adapter3 there too, so that's a problem.

> tjs at mythtv:/dev/dvb$ lspci
> 00:00.0 Memory controller: nVidia Corporation CK804 Memory Controller (rev a3)
> 00:01.0 ISA bridge: nVidia Corporation CK804 ISA Bridge (rev a3)
> 00:01.1 SMBus: nVidia Corporation CK804 SMBus (rev a2)
> 00:02.0 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation CK804 USB Controller (rev a2)
> 00:02.1 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation CK804 USB Controller (rev a3)
> 00:04.0 Multimedia audio controller: nVidia Corporation CK804 AC'97 Audio 
> Controller (rev a2)
> 00:06.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation CK804 IDE (rev f2)
> 00:07.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation CK804 Serial ATA Controller (rev f3)
> 00:08.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation CK804 Serial ATA Controller (rev f3)
> 00:09.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation CK804 PCI Bridge (rev a2)
> 00:0a.0 Bridge: nVidia Corporation CK804 Ethernet Controller (rev a3)
> 00:0b.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation CK804 PCIE Bridge (rev a3)
> 00:0c.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation CK804 PCIE Bridge (rev a3)
> 00:0d.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation CK804 PCIE Bridge (rev a3)
> 00:0e.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation CK804 PCIE Bridge (rev a3)
> 00:18.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] 
> HyperTransport Technology Configuration
> 00:18.1 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] 
> Address Map
> 00:18.2 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] DRAM 
> Controller
> 00:18.3 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] 
> Miscellaneous Control
> 01:06.0 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 
> Controller (rev 62)
> 01:06.1 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 
> Controller (rev 62)
> 01:06.2 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB 2.0 (rev 65)
> 01:07.0 Multimedia video controller: Conexant CX23880/1/2/3 PCI Video and 
> Audio Decoder (rev 05)
> 01:07.2 Multimedia controller: Conexant CX23880/1/2/3 PCI Video and Audio 
> Decoder [MPEG Port] (rev 05)
> 01:07.4 Multimedia controller: Conexant CX23880/1/2/3 PCI Video and Audio 
> Decoder [IR Port] (rev 05)
> 01:08.0 Multimedia video controller: Conexant CX23880/1/2/3 PCI Video and 
> Audio Decoder (rev 05)
> 01:08.2 Multimedia controller: Conexant CX23880/1/2/3 PCI Video and Audio 
> Decoder [MPEG Port] (rev 05)
> 01:08.4 Multimedia controller: Conexant CX23880/1/2/3 PCI Video and Audio 
> Decoder [IR Port] (rev 05)
> 05:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation G72 [GeForce 7300 LE] 
> (rev a1)
> 
> I can't select the card the same as the T-500, it just lists 0-in use and 1-in 
> use and then cycles around to 0 again.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Tim.

I don't know enough to know if that lspci is correct, but it's probably 
useful info to someone. Anyway, the problem is with the Nova-Ts, not 
Myth. I suggest you look at the dvb-v4l wiki site/wiki/mailing list 
http://www.linuxtv.org/.

Cheers,

John

-- 
John Veness, MythTV user, UK, DVB-T