[mythtv-users] HD3000, Sarge, AMD64 SMP, 0.19 from deb, Could not get card info for card #0! Subtype: Success!

[Douglas Wagner]

Basics: The pcHDTV3000 card is considered a DVB card, if you're doing
anything special to "set the card to DVB-T" Don't.  Actaully to access it
here in the US, I had to use the ATSC Stuff (azap) to get info from
it...i.e. I believe it's considered DVB-A?  Something like that?

All of that should be irrelivant.  You should see a /dev/dvb/adapterX in
devices and you should be selecting a DVB card type in Myth.  BTW, the
pre-packaged executables for Myth 0.19 work beautifully.  Also, in some
recent kernel (I think the 2.6.15 has them) DVB support for the HD3000 card
was rolled into the kernel (i'm sure you know this already, but that would
be the reason why you can't find any info anymore about the HD3000 card,
it's all "out of the box"  supported now).  2.6.16 (most recent) kernel
seems to be running flawlessly for me (albeit it's a Fedora box) and Myth
likes the tuner card well enough.

--Douglas Wagner

On 5/2/06, Joe Votour <joevph at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>
>
> --- David Cain <sblkMythUser at jimmiedave.com> wrote:
>
> > I've been trying to get a dual HD3000 backend-only
> > system working since
> > March, and finally gotta buy a vowel. I've built
> > MythTV systems twice
> > before (PVR-350, Ubuntu Hoary, Sarge) but this is
> > the first time with
> > HD3000 cards, and first time with a backend-only
> > machine.
> >
> > I'm using Sarge - the AMD64 unofficial distro, with
> > an SMP setup,
> > kernel 2.6.15 from backports. I'm using the 0.19
> > debs from Christian
> > Marillat's repository, have mastered getting
> > mythtv-setup to connect to
> > X remotely (that is, I don't have X installed on the
> > backend) and am
> > tantilizingly close to getting some TV recorded.
> > MythTV works - except
> > for tuning.
> >
> > I have the pcHDTV tuner cards set up as DVB-T
> > devices. However, the
> > capture card setup page in mythtv-setup says:
> >
> > "Could not get card info for card #0! Subtype:
> >  Success"
> >
> > I get the same info for card #1. However, when I
> > switch to a DVB Card
> > Number that I know doesn't exist, I get:
> >
> > "Could not open card #3! Subtype         No such
> > file or directory"
> >
> > So I know that MythTV sees SOMETHING there, but is
> > having trouble
> > talking to it.
> >
> > The only messages I see on the list archive are from
> > people using
> > versions 0.17 and 0.18 (and maybe older). Didn't see
> > anything recent
> > (or particularly useful) about this.
> >
> > I previously tried using the pcHDTV card type (which
> > I now hear are
> > mainly for the HD2000 card - gee, somebody should
> > label it as such!),
> > and while the pcHDTV card type would scan channels
> > and get lock onto a
> > number of OTA digital channels near me (Atlanta, GA,
> > USA) it would only
> > record completely black 1080i mpegs.
> >
> > I know the first responses will be "give me more
> > info". Happy to do so.
> > I haven't found anything in backend logs that I
> > thought was revealing,
> > but please, ask away.
> >
> > Any help is appreciated!
> >
> > DC
> >
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> Does the user that you're running mythtv-setup as have
> read/write permissions to the DVB cards?
>
> I now run a dedicated backend system, and I configured
> it the same way (using X11 forwarding to my frontend).
> Since mythbackend runs as root on my backend, I just
> ran mythtv-setup as root also, that way I didn't have
> to play around with device permissions (which Fedora
> Core happily clobbers when you don't login through the
> terminal/X).
>
> -- Joe
>
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