[mythtv-users] HD3000, Sarge, AMD64 SMP, 0.19 from deb, Could not get card info for card #0! Subtype: Success!

[Jim Valavanis]

So what's the best way to test this HD3000 card to see if it is 
working?  Say you're using the S-Video out from a digital cable box to 
the card.

Douglas Wagner wrote:

> Basics: The pcHDTV3000 card is considered a DVB card, if you're doing 
> anything special to "set the card to DVB-T" Don't.  Actaully to access 
> it here in the US, I had to use the ATSC Stuff (azap) to get info from 
> it...i.e. I believe it's considered DVB-A?  Something like that? 
>
> All of that should be irrelivant.  You should see a /dev/dvb/adapterX 
> in devices and you should be selecting a DVB card type in Myth.  BTW, 
> the pre-packaged executables for Myth 0.19 work beautifully.  Also, in 
> some recent kernel (I think the 2.6.15 has them) DVB support for the 
> HD3000 card was rolled into the kernel (i'm sure you know this 
> already, but that would be the reason why you can't find any info 
> anymore about the HD3000 card, it's all "out of the box"  supported 
> now).  2.6.16 (most recent) kernel seems to be running flawlessly for 
> me (albeit it's a Fedora box) and Myth likes the tuner card well enough.
>
> --Douglas Wagner
>
> On 5/2/06, * Joe Votour* <joevph at yahoo.com <mailto:joevph at yahoo.com>> 
> wrote:
>
>
>
>     --- David Cain <sblkMythUser at jimmiedave.com
>     <mailto:sblkMythUser at jimmiedave.com>> wrote:
>
>     > I've been trying to get a dual HD3000 backend-only
>     > system working since
>     > March, and finally gotta buy a vowel. I've built
>     > MythTV systems twice
>     > before (PVR-350, Ubuntu Hoary, Sarge) but this is
>     > the first time with
>     > HD3000 cards, and first time with a backend-only
>     > machine.
>     >
>     > I'm using Sarge - the AMD64 unofficial distro, with
>     > an SMP setup,
>     > kernel 2.6.15 from backports. I'm using the 0.19
>     > debs from Christian
>     > Marillat's repository, have mastered getting
>     > mythtv-setup to connect to
>     > X remotely (that is, I don't have X installed on the
>     > backend) and am
>     > tantilizingly close to getting some TV recorded.
>     > MythTV works - except
>     > for tuning.
>     >
>     > I have the pcHDTV tuner cards set up as DVB-T
>     > devices. However, the
>     > capture card setup page in mythtv-setup says:
>     >
>     > "Could not get card info for card #0! Subtype:
>     >  Success"
>     >
>     > I get the same info for card #1. However, when I
>     > switch to a DVB Card
>     > Number that I know doesn't exist, I get:
>     >
>     > "Could not open card #3! Subtype         No such
>     > file or directory"
>     >
>     > So I know that MythTV sees SOMETHING there, but is
>     > having trouble
>     > talking to it.
>     >
>     > The only messages I see on the list archive are from
>     > people using
>     > versions 0.17 and 0.18 (and maybe older). Didn't see
>     > anything recent
>     > (or particularly useful) about this.
>     >
>     > I previously tried using the pcHDTV card type (which
>     > I now hear are
>     > mainly for the HD2000 card - gee, somebody should
>     > label it as such!),
>     > and while the pcHDTV card type would scan channels
>     > and get lock onto a
>     > number of OTA digital channels near me (Atlanta, GA,
>     > USA) it would only
>     > record completely black 1080i mpegs.
>     >
>     > I know the first responses will be "give me more
>     > info". Happy to do so.
>     > I haven't found anything in backend logs that I
>     > thought was revealing,
>     > but please, ask away.
>     >
>     > Any help is appreciated!
>     >
>     > DC
>     >
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>     Does the user that you're running mythtv-setup as have
>     read/write permissions to the DVB cards?
>
>     I now run a dedicated backend system, and I configured
>     it the same way (using X11 forwarding to my frontend).
>     Since mythbackend runs as root on my backend, I just
>     ran mythtv-setup as root also, that way I didn't have
>     to play around with device permissions (which Fedora
>     Core happily clobbers when you don't login through the
>     terminal/X).
>
>     -- Joe
>
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