[mythtv-users] /dev/dvb disappeared

Nick Rout nick at rout.co.nz
Fri Jul 20 02:34:53 UTC 2007


I am not sure if this page applies to your card, but when I saw Twinhan I
thought of it (as i was looking at this the other day)

http://linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php/Twinhan_VP-1020A


On Fri, July 20, 2007 12:23 pm, Jarrod Harch wrote:
> Hi,
>
> My mythtv box has recently stopped working for me. The problem is the
> /dev/dvb has disappeared, I'd previously used it for many months without
> problems. Not sure what I did to break it, or even exactly when.
>
> The system is running Ubuntu 7.04 and has the stock Ubuntu kernel
> 2.6.20-16-386. DVB card is a Twinhan mini-Ter.
>
> dmesg shows:
> ...
> [   32.376000] bttv: driver version 0.9.16 loaded
> [   32.376000] bttv: using 8 buffers with 2080k (520 pages) each for
> capture
> [   32.384000] bt878: AUDIO driver version 0.0.0 loaded
> [   32.384000] bt878: Bt878 AUDIO function found (0).
> [   32.384000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKB] enabled at IRQ 5
> [   32.384000] PCI: setting IRQ 5 as level-triggered
> [   32.384000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:09.1[A] -> Link [LNKB] -> GSI
> 5 (level, low) -> IRQ 5
> [   32.384000] bt878_probe: card id=[0x11822],[ Twinhan VisionPlus DVB ]
> has DVB functions.
> [   32.384000] bt878(0): Bt878 (rev 17) at 00:09.1, irq: 5, latency: 32,
> memory: 0xe2001000
> ...
>
> There is no DVB front-end registration message, which I know should be
> there.
>
> lspci shows that the appropriate modules seem to be loading:
>
> # lsmod | grep "dv\|br"
> dvb_bt8xx              17156  0
> dvb_core               78760  2 dvb_bt8xx,dst
> bt878                  10920  2 dvb_bt8xx,dst
> bttv                  170356  2 dvb_bt8xx,bt878
> i2c_core               21648  9
> i2c_ec,dvb_bt8xx,dst,bttv,i2c_algo_bit,i2c_viapro,tveeprom,via686a,i2c_isa
>
> Also, here is what scanpci finds:
> ...
> pci bus 0x0000 cardnum 0x09 function 0x00: vendor 0x109e device 0x036a
>   Brooktree Corporation  Device unknown
>
> pci bus 0x0000 cardnum 0x09 function 0x01: vendor 0x109e device 0x0878
>   Brooktree Corporation Bt878 Audio Capture
> ...
>
> Does anyone have some ideas?
>
> Many thanks,
> Jarrod
>
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Nick Rout



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