[mythtv-users] Getting this working should NOT be this hard!

[Harry Devine]

James Crow wrote:
> On Mon, 2008-10-20 at 10:34 -0400, Harry Devine wrote:
>   
>> James Crow wrote:
>>     
>>> On Mon, 2008-10-20 at 08:27 -0400, Harry Devine wrote:
>>>
>>>   
>>>       
>>>> Here's the new dvb-ppa.list file:
>>>> hdevine at hdevine-desktop:/etc/apt$ more dvb-ppa.list
>>>> deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/pitti/ubuntu hardy main
>>>> deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/pitti/ubuntu hardy main
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Any thoughts?
>>>> Harry
>>>>
>>>>     
>>>>         
>>> Harry,
>>>
>>>   One small problem. The file goes in the "/etc/apt/sources.list.d"
>>> directory. Your file is in the "/etc/apt" directory.
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> James
>>>
>>>
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>> Ahhhhhhh!  OK, I moved it and was able to download it fine now.  It just 
>> got done the build process, but I'll have to check it later when I get 
>> home.  I'm at work right now connected via SSH so I can't check the 
>> "Watch TV" portion from here.  Is there anything else I need to do in 
>> the meantime?  I was planning on rebooting the box to make sure that the 
>> modules load, etc.
>>
>> Thanks alot for the help!
>> Harry
>>
>>     
>
> You can do a few simple things through ssh. 
> 1) modprobe the modules or restart the system.
> 2) Check for entries under /dev/dvb
> 3) You can run scan to see what channels the card is detecting.
> ex: scan /usr/share/doc/dvb-utils/examples/scan/??? >> channels.conf
> Replace the ??? with the right frequency table for your part of the
> world.
> 4) cat channels.conf to see what channels scan detected a signal on.
>
> Cheers,
> James
>
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>   
I had to download dvb-utils for this, which wasn't a big deal, but when 
I try to run the scan, I get:

hdevine at hdevine-desktop:~$ sudo scan 
/usr/share/doc/dvb-utils/examples/scan/atsc/us-PA-Philadelphia > 
/tmp/channels.conf
[sudo] password for hdevine:
scanning /usr/share/doc/dvb-utils/examples/scan/atsc/us-PA-Philadelphia
using '/dev/dvb/adapter0/frontend0' and '/dev/dvb/adapter0/demux0'
main:2247: FATAL: failed to open '/dev/dvb/adapter0/frontend0': 16 
Device or resource busy

This was after I rebooted the box just to be sure.  Any ideas?

Thanks,
Harry