[mythtv-users] /dev/dvb disappeared

[Jarrod Harch]

I have it working again now.

I think the problem was related to changing a PCI 802.11 card recently, 
for some reason when I moved the DVB card into a different slot it 
started working again.

Cheers
Jarrod

Nick Rout wrote:
> Sorry i may have been on the wrong track there. This page
> http://linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php/TwinhanDTV_Digital_Terrestrial_TV_Card_Ter
> says there is no firmware needed for your card.
> 
> 
> On Fri, July 20, 2007 2:34 pm, Nick Rout wrote:
>> I am not sure if this page applies to your card, but when I saw Twinhan I
>> thought of it (as i was looking at this the other day)
>>
>> http://linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php/Twinhan_VP-1020A
>>
>>
>> On Fri, July 20, 2007 12:23 pm, Jarrod Harch wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> My mythtv box has recently stopped working for me. The problem is the
>>> /dev/dvb has disappeared, I'd previously used it for many months without
>>> problems. Not sure what I did to break it, or even exactly when.
>>>
>>> The system is running Ubuntu 7.04 and has the stock Ubuntu kernel
>>> 2.6.20-16-386. DVB card is a Twinhan mini-Ter.
>>>
>>> dmesg shows:
>>> ...
>>> [   32.376000] bttv: driver version 0.9.16 loaded
>>> [   32.376000] bttv: using 8 buffers with 2080k (520 pages) each for
>>> capture
>>> [   32.384000] bt878: AUDIO driver version 0.0.0 loaded
>>> [   32.384000] bt878: Bt878 AUDIO function found (0).
>>> [   32.384000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKB] enabled at IRQ 5
>>> [   32.384000] PCI: setting IRQ 5 as level-triggered
>>> [   32.384000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:09.1[A] -> Link [LNKB] -> GSI
>>> 5 (level, low) -> IRQ 5
>>> [   32.384000] bt878_probe: card id=[0x11822],[ Twinhan VisionPlus DVB ]
>>> has DVB functions.
>>> [   32.384000] bt878(0): Bt878 (rev 17) at 00:09.1, irq: 5, latency: 32,
>>> memory: 0xe2001000
>>> ...
>>>
>>> There is no DVB front-end registration message, which I know should be
>>> there.
>>>
>>> lspci shows that the appropriate modules seem to be loading:
>>>
>>> # lsmod | grep "dv\|br"
>>> dvb_bt8xx              17156  0
>>> dvb_core               78760  2 dvb_bt8xx,dst
>>> bt878                  10920  2 dvb_bt8xx,dst
>>> bttv                  170356  2 dvb_bt8xx,bt878
>>> i2c_core               21648  9
>>> i2c_ec,dvb_bt8xx,dst,bttv,i2c_algo_bit,i2c_viapro,tveeprom,via686a,i2c_isa
>>>
>>> Also, here is what scanpci finds:
>>> ...
>>> pci bus 0x0000 cardnum 0x09 function 0x00: vendor 0x109e device 0x036a
>>>   Brooktree Corporation  Device unknown
>>>
>>> pci bus 0x0000 cardnum 0x09 function 0x01: vendor 0x109e device 0x0878
>>>   Brooktree Corporation Bt878 Audio Capture
>>> ...
>>>
>>> Does anyone have some ideas?
>>>
>>> Many thanks,
>>> Jarrod
>>>
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>>
>> --
>> Nick Rout
>>
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