[mythtv-users] getting going

[David Watkins]

> I have run through set up from the start using defaults mostly as I don't
> know what a lot of the settings are.
> I have tried setting the card as. IVTV MPEG-2 encoder and DVB DTV capture
> card (v3.x), but neither works.
> I looked at the log and it says No capture cards are defined please run the
> setup program.
> So maybe I need drivers or something to make myth see the card
> I was trying to scan for channels which it does but doesn't find any
> Alek

The linux equivalent of hardware drivers are kernel modules, which are
generally loaded automatically by the kernel, but may need to be
loaded by hand (or in a script) if the kernel doesn't detect the
hardware correctly.

You can tell if the kernel module has been loaded by looking in:

/var/log/messages

for entries referring to loading of dvb modules

or seeing whether the directories

/dev/dvb/adapter0/...

have been created.

If everything looks OK it's possible that you have a permissions
problem.  What access rights does the /dev/dvb/... have, and what user
are you running mytht-setup as?  Also, I believe you should make sure
that mythbackend is not running when you run mythtv-setup.