[mythtv-users] HD3000: Could not get card info for card #0!

[Steven Adeff]

On 5/11/06, David Cain <sblkMythUser at jimmiedave.com> wrote:
> Still trying to set up my 2 HD3000 cards in a backend.
>
> Kernel 2.6.16-1 on Debian Sarge AMD64 SMP, headless backend server.
>
> Using MythTV 0.19 from Marillat's repository.
>
> azap (from linuxtv.org's dvb-tools (CVS)) works, shows the cards locking
> signal on the DVB side. Have gotten some crummy analog NTSC video (but not
> audio) out of the analog tuner section.
>
> I've checked and the mythtv user (video group) should have permissions on
> the /dev/dvb folder and its contents. (and I've tried as root too, so that
> ought to give me permission...)
>
> The firmware can be loaded: azap, along with a tail -f on syslog prove that.
>
> But when I go to mythtv-setup (which I'm runing on a remote X display on my
> PowerBook - don't have X on the server) and try to set up the cards as DVB
> DTV capture cards, I get:
>
> Frontend ID: Could not get card info for card #0! Subtype:         Invalid
> Argument
>
> Then once I change the DVB card number to something else (card 1, for
> example) I get:
>
> Frontend ID: Could not get card info for card #1! Subtype:         Success
>
> If I change back to card 0, I then see:
>
> Frontend ID: Could not get card info for card #0! Subtype:         Success
>
> In no case can I configure a working card. If I switch to card numbers that
> don't represent a card in the machine, the machine correctly detects that:
>
> Frontend ID: Could not open card #2: Subtype:       No such file or directory
>
> -------------------
>
> I note that I couldn't compile some of the dvb-tools in an earlier attempt
> - they too said something about frontend (and 'FE_ATSC' - "FrontEnd"?)
> Anyone got any ideas here?
>
> Is the issue that I've only installed mythtv-backend and mythtv-database on
> this machine?
>
> I've been stuck here for nearly a month. Nobody seems to have solved this,
> or at least no one has reported on the solution anyplace I can find it.
>
> Desperate for ideas here...


make sure myth is compiled with DVB support and you have the proper
driver headers, this happened to me with an older kernel with the
wrong driver headers.

also, run mythtv-setup as root so you don't have to worry about
permission problems.


-- 
Steve
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