[mythtv-users] Nova-T PCI has disappeared

[Tino Keitel]

On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 12:48:04 +0000, Roy Lofthouse wrote:
> My nova-t has recently stopped working, but I'm not sure if it has
> something to do with a recent kernel upgrade or not?
> 
> Has anybody had any issues with this card?
> 
> Currently running FC9 with Kernel 2.6.26.6-79.
> 
> lspci shows:
> 
> 02:0b.0 Multimedia video controller: Brooktree Corporation Bt878 Video
> Capture (rev 11)
> 02:0b.1 Multimedia controller: Brooktree Corporation Bt878 Audio
> Capture (rev 11)
> 02:0d.0 Multimedia controller: Philips Semiconductors SAA7146 (rev 01)
> 
> and lspci -v:
> 
> 02:0d.0 Multimedia controller: Philips Semiconductors SAA7146 (rev 01)
>         Subsystem: Technotrend Systemtechnik GmbH Unknown device 8843
>         Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 5
>         Memory at feaff400 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=512]
> 
> There is no frontend adapter showing at all in /dev/dvb

Maybe you just need to load the frontend module. This isn't shown in
lspci.

Try this command as root and look if a frontend appears in
/dev/dvb/...:

/sbin/modprobe -l | grep frontend | sed "s/.*\/\(.*\).ko/\1/" | xargs -n1 sudo modprobe

IIRC my Nova-T PCI required the tda1004x module.

Regards,
Tino