[mythtv-users] DVB-T, Could not open card #0

David Whyte david.whyte at gmail.com
Sun Nov 7 08:59:44 UTC 2004


Doh!!!  Your not going to believe this.  It may well have been because
I had a job running which was tzap!!!

Once I had forced that to stop, the DVB-T card is showing fine....

Dave - The linux dumbass :|


On Sun, 07 Nov 2004 19:13:34 +1030, Markus Buchanan
<markusb at netspace.net.au> wrote:
> Yep, that's all I did...
> 
> markus
> 
> 
> 
> On Sun, 2004-11-07 at 18:50, David Whyte wrote:
> > Hey Markus,
> >
> > Thanks for your reply.  I am a linux newb, so I was wandering it is
> > just a case of chmodding the 'devices' listed under adaptor0?
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Dave
> >
> >
> > On Sun, 7 Nov 2004 18:35:26 +1030, Markus Buchanan
> > <markusb at netspace.net.au> wrote:
> > > I had this problem with a Nebula DigiTV card, turned out the permission were
> > > wrong.
> > >
> > > Have a look at the permissions on the device files, once I change mine Myth
> > > was happy to register it.
> > >
> > > markus
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org
> > > [mailto:mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org] On Behalf Of David Whyte
> > > Sent: Sunday, 7 November 2004 4:01 PM
> > > To: Discussion about mythtv
> > > Subject: [mythtv-users] DVB-T, Could not open card #0
> > >
> > > Wow!!!  I think my AverMedia 771 DVB-T card is up and running.  I can run
> > > tzap and get signal locks, but I can't use player to test (even after trying
> > > to recompile with DVB support it just does not seem to understand the dvb://
> > > argument.
> > >
> > > Anyways, everything seems good, with the following output from DMESG
> > >
> > > PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:11.5 to 64 Linux video capture
> > > interface: v1.00
> > > bttv: driver version 0.9.15 loaded
> > > bttv: using 8 buffers with 2080k (520 pages) each for capture
> > > bttv: Bt8xx card found (0).
> > > ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:0a.0[A] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ 11
> > > bttv0: Bt878 (rev 17) at 0000:00:0a.0, irq: 11, latency: 32, mmio:
> > > 0xea000000
> > > bttv0: detected: AVermedia DVB-T 771 [card=123], PCI subsystem ID is
> > > 1461:0771
> > > bttv0: using: AVerMedia AVerTV DVB-T 771 [card=123,autodetected]
> > > bttv0: gpio: en=00000000, out=00000000 in=00f0ff0f [init]
> > > bttv0: using tuner=4
> > > bttv0: registered device video0
> > > bttv0: registered device vbi0
> > > bttv0: PLL: 28636363 => 35468950 .. ok
> > > bttv0: add subdevice "remote0"
> > > bttv0: add subdevice "dvb0"
> > > bt878: AUDIO driver version 0.0.0 loaded
> > > bt878: Bt878 AUDIO function found (0).
> > > ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:0a.1[A] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ 11
> > > bt878(0): Bt878 (rev 17) at 00:0a.1, irq: 11, latency: 32, memory:
> > > 0xea001000
> > > DVB: registering new adapter (bttv0).
> > > DVB: registering frontend 0 (Zarlink MT352 DVB-T)...
> > >
> > > The problem is that in Mythsetup, when I try and setup the adaptor, it
> > > obvisouly recognises the card as being there but it cannot open the card,
> > > the 'Device or Resource is busy'.  I am running everything as root and the
> > > ls of the adaptor0 directory is as follows:
> > >
> > > [myth at myth myth]$ ls -l /dev/dvb/adapter0/ total 0
> > > crw-rw----  1 root video 212, 1 Nov  4 23:09 audio0
> > > crw-rw----  1 root video 212, 6 Nov  4 23:09 ca0
> > > crw-rw----  1 root video 212, 4 Nov  4 23:09 demux0
> > > crw-rw----  1 root video 212, 5 Nov  4 23:09 dvr0
> > > crw-rw----  1 root video 212, 3 Nov  4 23:09 frontend0
> > > crw-rw----  1 root video 212, 7 Nov  4 23:09 net0
> > > crw-rw----  1 root video 212, 8 Nov  4 23:09 osd0
> > > crw-rw----  1 root video 212, 0 Nov  4 23:09 video0
> > >
> > > I don't know what, but in another post i read, the '212' part was
> > > significant, something to do with a change in the major version number.  Of
> > > what I don't know, but by soeone noting that, it fixed the guys problems.
> > >
> > > Anyone have any decent ideas of a way to step forward???
> > >
> > > Cheers,
> > > Dave
> > > --
> > > GMAIL is 'da bomb baby....YEAH
> > >
> > >
> >
> 
> 


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