[mythtv-users] HD3000: Could not get card info for card #0!

[David Cain]

Still trying to set up my 2 HD3000 cards in a backend.

Kernel 2.6.16-1 on Debian Sarge AMD64 SMP, headless backend server.

Using MythTV 0.19 from Marillat's repository.

azap (from linuxtv.org's dvb-tools (CVS)) works, shows the cards locking
signal on the DVB side. Have gotten some crummy analog NTSC video (but not
audio) out of the analog tuner section.

I've checked and the mythtv user (video group) should have permissions on
the /dev/dvb folder and its contents. (and I've tried as root too, so that
ought to give me permission...)

The firmware can be loaded: azap, along with a tail -f on syslog prove that.

But when I go to mythtv-setup (which I'm runing on a remote X display on my
PowerBook - don't have X on the server) and try to set up the cards as DVB
DTV capture cards, I get:

Frontend ID: Could not get card info for card #0! Subtype:         Invalid
Argument

Then once I change the DVB card number to something else (card 1, for
example) I get:

Frontend ID: Could not get card info for card #1! Subtype:         Success

If I change back to card 0, I then see:

Frontend ID: Could not get card info for card #0! Subtype:         Success

In no case can I configure a working card. If I switch to card numbers that
don't represent a card in the machine, the machine correctly detects that:

Frontend ID: Could not open card #2: Subtype:       No such file or directory

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I note that I couldn't compile some of the dvb-tools in an earlier attempt
- they too said something about frontend (and 'FE_ATSC' - "FrontEnd"?)
Anyone got any ideas here?

Is the issue that I've only installed mythtv-backend and mythtv-database on
this machine?

I've been stuck here for nearly a month. Nobody seems to have solved this,
or at least no one has reported on the solution anyplace I can find it.

Desperate for ideas here...

DC

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