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

[Damian]

On 20/04/2017 13:59, Simon Hobson wrote:
> 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.

With the two working tuners ...

$ dmesg | grep firmware
[    2.356051] GHES: APEI firmware first mode is enabled by WHEA _OSC.
[   13.186503] dvb-usb: found a 'Hauppauge Nova-T Stick' in cold state, 
will try to load a firmware
[   13.359628] dvb-usb: downloading firmware from file 
'dvb-usb-dib0700-1.20.fw'
[   13.569833] dib0700: firmware started successfully.
[   14.729802] dvb-usb: found a 'Hauppauge Nova-T Stick' in cold state, 
will try to load a firmware
[   14.729885] dvb-usb: downloading firmware from file 
'dvb-usb-dib0700-1.20.fw'
[   14.935039] dib0700: firmware started successfully.
$ dmesg | grep adapter
[   14.072264] DVB: registering new adapter (Hauppauge Nova-T Stick)
[   14.459652] usb 1-5: DVB: registering adapter 0 frontend 0 (DiBcom 
7000PC)...
[   15.442022] DVB: registering new adapter (Hauppauge Nova-T Stick)
[   15.689719] usb 2-1: DVB: registering adapter 1 frontend 0 (DiBcom 
7000PC)...

When I plug in the HD tuner in addition (didn't reboot) ...

$ dmesg | grep firmware
[    2.356051] GHES: APEI firmware first mode is enabled by WHEA _OSC.
[   13.186503] dvb-usb: found a 'Hauppauge Nova-T Stick' in cold state, 
will try to load a firmware
[   13.359628] dvb-usb: downloading firmware from file 
'dvb-usb-dib0700-1.20.fw'
[   13.569833] dib0700: firmware started successfully.
[   14.729802] dvb-usb: found a 'Hauppauge Nova-T Stick' in cold state, 
will try to load a firmware
[   14.729885] dvb-usb: downloading firmware from file 
'dvb-usb-dib0700-1.20.fw'
[   14.935039] dib0700: firmware started successfully.
$ dmesg | grep adapter
[   14.072264] DVB: registering new adapter (Hauppauge Nova-T Stick)
[   14.459652] usb 1-5: DVB: registering adapter 0 frontend 0 (DiBcom 
7000PC)...
[   15.442022] DVB: registering new adapter (Hauppauge Nova-T Stick)
[   15.689719] usb 2-1: DVB: registering adapter 1 frontend 0 (DiBcom 
7000PC)...
[70692.548419] DVB: registering new adapter (em28178 #0)
[70692.548428] usb 1-4: DVB: registering adapter 2 frontend 0 (Silicon 
Labs Si2168)...