[mythtv-users] [SOLVED-ish] Thinking of moving on from MythTV ... I found the main problem, but still have 292e woes

[Simon Hobson]

Damian <myth at surr.co.uk> wrote:

>> Have you tried, from a terminal,
>> 
>> dmesg | grep firmware
>> 
>> and
>> 
>> dmesg | grep adapter
>> 
>> and does it look as if the results are ok?
>> 
>> John
> 
> Hi John,
> 
> I wouldn't know if the results of a "dmesg | grep" command looked 'ok' or not if my life depended on it! :-)
> 
> I could try to find time to put the stick back in and try those commands if that would be useful.

It would be useful. For reference (so you can see roughly what it ought to look like), here's the output from my system which has two tuners (HVR1350 IIRC) in it :

$ dmesg | grep firmware
[  428.025540] tda10048_firmware_upload: waiting for firmware upload (dvb-fe-tda10048-1.0.fw)...
[  428.025550] cx23885 0000:02:00.0: firmware: requesting dvb-fe-tda10048-1.0.fw
[  428.056816] tda10048_firmware_upload: firmware read 24878 bytes.
[  428.056821] tda10048_firmware_upload: firmware uploading
[  430.708593] tda10048_firmware_upload: firmware uploaded
[  433.988708] tda10048_firmware_upload: waiting for firmware upload (dvb-fe-tda10048-1.0.fw)...
[  433.988717] cx23885 0000:03:00.0: firmware: requesting dvb-fe-tda10048-1.0.fw
[  433.993576] tda10048_firmware_upload: firmware read 24878 bytes.
[  433.993581] tda10048_firmware_upload: firmware uploading
[  436.624604] tda10048_firmware_upload: firmware uploaded
$ dmesg | grep adapter 
[    7.042137] DVB: registering new adapter (cx23885[0])
[    7.042147] DVB: registering adapter 0 frontend 0 (NXP TDA10048HN DVB-T)...
[    8.334137] DVB: registering new adapter (cx23885[1])
[    8.334146] DVB: registering adapter 1 frontend 0 (NXP TDA10048HN DVB-T)...

Here you can see messages showing the firmware upload, and adapter registrations.

Even if it makes no sense to you, someone here should be able to interpret it.