[mythtv-users] Tuner not available

Kevin Kuphal kkuphal at gmail.com
Mon Aug 25 17:00:16 UTC 2008


On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 11:57 AM, Robert Holm <robhholm at lantic.net> wrote:

> Hi all
>
> I am running Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy (kernel 2.6.24-19-generic).
> I have installed mythtv from the repositories and under System
> Status/Tuner Status I get the message "Tuner 1 is not available"
>
> In the backend setup selecting New Capture card defaults to:
> Analog V4L capture card - Video device /dev/video)
> Probed info unknown/generic [saa 7134]
>
> lspci gives me: 00:0a.0 Multimedia controller: Philips Semiconductors
> SAA7133/SAA7135 Video Broadcast Decoder (rev d1)
>
> dmesg | grep saa7133 gives me:
> [   42.426884] saa7133[0]: found at 0000:00:0a.0, rev: 209, irq: 3,
> latency: 32, mmio: 0xef005000
> [   42.426893] saa7133[0]: subsystem: a0a0:058e, board: UNKNOWN/GENERIC
> [card=0,autodetected]
> [   42.426909] saa7133[0]: board init: gpio is 31400
> [   42.562245] saa7133[0]: i2c eeprom 00: a0 a0 8e 05 54 20 1c 00 43 43
> a9 1c 55 d2 b2 92
> [   42.562260] saa7133[0]: i2c eeprom 10: 00 00 01 00 ff 20 ff ff ff ff
> ff ff ff ff ff ff
> [   42.562271] saa7133[0]: i2c eeprom 20: 01 40 01 03 03 01 01 03 08 ff
> 01 8e ff ff ff ff
> [   42.562281] saa7133[0]: i2c eeprom 30: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
> ff ff ff ff ff ff
> [   42.562292] saa7133[0]: i2c eeprom 40: ff 22 00 c2 96 ff 02 30 10 ff
> ff ff ff ff ff ff
> [   42.562302] saa7133[0]: i2c eeprom 50: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
> ff ff ff ff ff ff
> [   42.562313] saa7133[0]: i2c eeprom 60: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
> ff ff ff ff ff ff
> [   42.562323] saa7133[0]: i2c eeprom 70: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
> ff ff ff ff ff ff
> [   42.638340] saa7133[0]: registered device video0 [v4l2]
> [   42.638404] saa7133[0]: registered device vbi0
> [   43.301116] saa7133[0]/alsa: saa7133[0] at 0xef005000 irq 3
> registered as card -2
>
> Am I correct in assuming this means the card is recognised and the
> driver is loaded?
>
> The backend log file includes the following:
>
> Starting up as the master server.
> 2008-08-25 17:15:18.894 TVRec(1) Error: Problem finding starting
> channel, setting to default of '3'.
> 2008-08-25 17:15:18.896 ChannelBase(1) Error: InitializeInputs():
>                        Could not get inputs for the capturecard.
>                        Perhaps you have forgotten to bind video
>                        sources to your card's inputs?
> ERROR: no valid capture cards are defined in the database.
>
> Can anyone suggest where I go from here?


Did you do as it instructs?  Did you attach a video source to your card in
the mythtv-setup?

Kevin
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