[mythtv-users] Upgraded to 0.21 and "could not open card" in setup?

[Mike Dent]

On 15/03/2008, Nick Morrott <knowledgejunkie at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 15/03/2008, Mike Dent <mcdent at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> > On 15/03/2008, Nick Morrott <knowledgejunkie at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > On 15/03/2008, Mike Dent <mcdent at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > As a route to upgrade from 0.20.2 to 0.21 I have upgraded Ubuntu
> from
> > 6.1 to
> > > > Gutsy.
> > > > All seems to have gone ok and it has upgraded myth to 0.21 it seems.
> > > >
> > > >  However when I go in to the mythtv-setup, delete the 2 interfaces
> and
> > try
> > > > to re-create the WinTV PVR-250's
> > > > I see an error under the DVB card type:-
> > > >
> > > > could not open card"#0 subtype mythtv
> > >
> > >
> > > The PVR-250 is not a DVB card. It is a hardware MPEG-2 encoder.
> >
> > Sorry I had a senior moment there! The cards I have are WinTV Nova-T
> model
> > 909 cards.
>
>
> In that case, first check for the existence and permissions of your
> /dev/dvb/* devices and ensure the user running mythtv-setup and
> mythbackend can access them. If you have updated your distro, you
> might also want to check the correct DVB modules have been loaded for
> the DVB cards (lsmod) and check their initialisation in dmesg/syslog.


Yes that looks like the problem I have no /dev/dvb folder or devices, oops.
thanks
Mike


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