[mythtv-users] One half of Nova-T has stopped working

[Nicolas Will]

On Mon, 2008-09-29 at 09:07 +0100, Nick Craig-Wood wrote:
> Edmund <edmund.1 at dial.pipex.com> wrote:
> >  Nick Craig-Wood wrote:
> > > Edmund <edmund.1 at dial.pipex.com> wrote:
> > >   
> > >>  Paul Gardiner wrote:
> > >>     
> > >>> Edmund wrote:
> > >>>   
> > >>>       
> > >>>> I have three dual tuner Nova-T-500s. Until recently all three were fine.
> > >>>>
> > >>>> Now today card 5 won't tune in but 0 to 4 will. So the other half of 
> > >>>> this card is fine.
> > >>>>
> > >>>> I have made some changed to both software and hardware recently, but I 
> > >>>> have just checked that all PCI cards are fully in their slots.
> > >>>>
> > >>>>         
> > > IIRC Nova-t 500s are USB based internally.
> > >
> > > You might get some useful debug out of lsusb which will show you
> > > devices, and usbview which will show you the topology.
> > >
> > >   
> >  Sorry to ask for further help but I am quite new to this. I am running 
> >  Ubuntu server 8.04. I am using USB viewer with X forwarding. X isn't 
> >  installed on the backend.
> > 
> >  I get and error can not open the file /proc/bus/usb/devices. (Verify 
> >  that you have USB compiled into your kernel, have the USB core modules 
> >  loaded and have the usbdevfs filesystem mounted.
> > 
> >  I'm not sure what I have. lsusb works.
> > 
> >  I tried mount -t usbdevfs none /proc/bus/usb but I get unknown 
> >  filesystem type. apt-cache search doesn't show anything for
> >  usbdevfs
> 
> Odd...
> 
> Posting the output of lsusb should give a clue though



This should help for the tuner loss:

http://www.youplala.net/linux/home-theater-pc#toc-not-losing-one-of-the-nova-t-500s-tuners

Nico