[mythtv-users] Can't see my tuner card?

Greg greg12866 at nycap.rr.com
Fri May 11 15:03:50 UTC 2012


On 05/11/2012 09:51 AM, Patrick Oglesby wrote:
>> There is possibly also slot voltage and PCI version.
>>
>> Make absolutely sure the card is fully seated in the slot. Use lots of light
>> and a magnifying glass. The camera on your phone might work as well
>> depending on whether it can do closeups.
>>
>
> The 1250 is PCIe, not PCI so there should not be any issues with slot voltage.
>
> Do check the seating of the card.
>
> You should be looking for the phrase DVB in the system log or dmesg.
>
> If everything is loaded correctly, then you should see something under /dev/dvb/
>
> If you are wanting to use this card for analog, then you are barking
> up the wrong tree as the analog side is not supported as far as I can
> remember.  The analog side is just a frame grabber with no encoding
> capabilities.  With other, better options for analog, the support was
> never developed in linux.
>
> - Patrick
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Right, this card won't work for analog under Linux...

Do a:
  ls /dev/video* and see if a node has been created...


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