[mythtv-users] DVB card and lirc stopped working

Tim Draper veehexx at gmail.com
Tue Jun 7 20:04:01 UTC 2011


which version of myth are you running... or more precisely, which kernel are
you currently running (uname -a).

the TBS drivers have to be ran on =< certain kernel versions.
have you ran any updates?

On 2 June 2011 12:46, David Cushing <david.cushing at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 6:25 PM, Mike Perkins <mikep at randomtraveller.org.uk
> > wrote:
>
>> On 01/06/11 12:43, David Cushing wrote:
>> > It's 64 bit OS.
>> >
>> > According to dmesg the driver for the card is unable to tell which card
>> it
>> > is... which is strange, as it was working before.
>> > When I try and recompile/reinstall the driver, I get error messages
>> saying
>> > it can't find files it needs, yet I have my kernel sources installed and
>> am
>> > following instructions to the letter.
>> >
>> (Please bottom-post to messages on this list)
>>
>> Your missing files... does your card need firmware files?
>>
>>
>>
> It does - but as I say, it was working before... and now it's not!
> When I tried re-compiling/installing - it failed.
>
> Having said all that, the system then got into a state where it would not
> boot at all.
> Given that I had also been unable to get the touch-screen on my case to
> work (it too mysteriously stopped working a while back, having worked just
> fine previously), and it had started refusing to resume from suspend-to-ram,
> I decided that rather than try and fix all of these little strange oddities,
> I would start afresh - with a different distro :)
>
> So I installed Fedora yesterday.  Which has the benefit of being
> "supported" (ahem) by my oldest friend, who has - to his chagrin - been
> giving me computer support in areas that have befuddled me since we were at
> school together. :)
> Now I just need to convince him to pop by for "dinner". ;)
>
> Cheers guys
>
> D.
>
>
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