[mythtv-users] SAA7146 'budget' PCI

[Robert Longbottom]

On Thu, April 8, 2010 10:26 am, mat wrote:
> Hi there MythTv'ers,
>
> I'm trying to get a Philips Semiconductors SAA7146 based 'budget' PCI card
> working alongside my NOVA-T-500-DualTuner in MythTV 0.21 on Debian Etch
> (kernel 2.6.22.19)
>
> It appears I require a firmware file, this  I have:
>
> dvb-fe-tda10046.fw (24478)
> dvb-fe-tda10045.fw (30555)
>
> in /lib/firmware
>
> If I modprobe budget_ci budget_core tda tda1004x, then the device node
> gets created just fine but the logs don't mention the above firmware. My
> understanding is that a cold-boot is required to load the firmware again,
> which suggests to me that the firmware is loaded and all is cool. Except
> it's not as MythTV "cannot access card", when I attempt to set it up with
> the Mythtv-setup.
>
> Is there a way of forcing the firmware to be reloaded?
> Is it even neccesary, as the dev node is created?
> How can I determine why Myth fails to access card?
>
> I was hoping that I could try some stuff here at work (via ssh, no X).
>
> I would really like to get this working as the Analog TV's been switched
> of here now, so my server will get some more usage.
>
> Any ideas, gratefully recieved.

An obvious one, have you checked the permissions on the device?

Robert.