[mythtv-users] HD3000, Sarge, AMD64 SMP, 0.19 from deb, Could not get card info for card #0! Subtype: Success!
David Cain
sblkMythUser at jimmiedave.com
Fri May 5 02:53:34 UTC 2006
Well, that's hard to know. I don't have a cable box, and even if I did,
S-Video would only address the analog section of the card - not the DTV
tuners, which is what's giving me fits right now.
Your point is well-taken: I don't have X on the machine and the
traditional methods of testing are problematic (though I suppose I
could put X apps for testing on there and export the display - but
that's probably about the slowest way I could go. Better to try and
capture some MPEGs and file-copy those).
So does anybody else have any bright ideas on this before I chuck the
whole thing and start fresh with Fedora (not my style really, but I
can't get Sarge working, don't want to wait to December for a release
of Etch, really wanted a clean install from debs, not a lot of
hair-pulling and slobbering stuff into every nook and cranny of the
machine).
Still looking for a hand...
DC
On May 2, 2006, at 11:36 PM, Jim Valavanis wrote:
> 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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