[mythtv-users] ivtv doesn't seem to register with KWorld Terminator

[Angus]

Nick Morrott wrote:
> On 14/03/07, Angus <sylvania at istop.com> wrote:
>   
>> Nick Morrott wrote:
>>     
>>> On 13/03/07, Angus <sylvania at istop.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>       
>>>> Nick Morrott wrote:
>>>>
>>>>         
>>>>> On 13/03/07, Angus <sylvania at istop.com> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>           
>>>>>> I think the problem starts with ivtv, following the directions on
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>             
>>>>> Using the wrong driver will not make hardware magically work :)
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>           
>>>>     That's very true, but if you'll look at my post again, you'll see
>>>> that it has nothing to do with not making the hardware work, but making
>>>> it work.
>>>>
>>>>         
>>> Sorry, perhaps I misunderstood. Why are you loading ivtv and checking
>>> its syslog output? Do you have another card that is supported by ivtv
>>> that is not being detected? Your Terminator card is *not* supported by
>>> ivtv.
>>>
>>>       
>>     Well in that case, I guess it doesn't matter. The instructions I was
>> following gave no such indication.
>>     
>
> Please post a link to the instructions.
>   

    That would be 
http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/Opensuse_10.2#Initial_System_Setup

>   
>>> You also seem to be running a 586 kernel - what CPU are you running?
>>>
>>>       
>>     800MHz Celeron Coppermine
>>     
>
> Using a (as I understand it) software encoder capture card requires
> ~1GHz of CPU - it'll be touch and go whether your Celeron will give
> you acceptable results. Read the MythTV docs for more info on this.
>   

    Well, the card claims that 800MHz is sufficient, and from what I've 
read, 800MHz is good enough for the role.

>>> There are more instructions on getting 7134-based capture cards
>>> working here: http://www.linuxtv.org/v4lwiki/index.php/Generic_SAA7134_Card_Installation.
>>> Note you may need to tweak the tuner option for the saa7134 module and
>>> enable the i2c scan per the link.
>>>
>>>       
>>     Ok, I followed the directions on that page, and I seem to be getting
>> the same sort of dmesg thing:
>> saa7133[0]: found at 0000:01:07.0, rev: 209, irq: 10, latency: 32, mmio:
>> 0xd4001000
>> saa7133[0]: subsystem: 1131:0000, board: UNKNOWN/GENERIC
>> [card=0,autodetected]
>> saa7133[0]: board init: gpio is 40
>> saa7133[0]: Huh, no eeprom present (err=-5)?
>> saa7133[0]: i2c scan: found device @ 0x96  [???]
>> saa7133[0]: registered device video0 [v4l2]
>> saa7133[0]: registered device vbi0
>>
>>     This is a little different from what they had. It doesn't look very
>> promising. Do I need to give any attention there? I'm not particularly
>> interested in the capture features at this moment (not that I mind
>>     
>
> The EEPROM messages don't look promising. The only other advice I can
> give is to check out http://gentoo-wiki.com/HARDWARE_saa7134 if you
> haven't already.
>   

    Ok, I've looked at it, and to my shock and dismay, I don't see the 
KWorld Global Terminator. Is this the end of the road?

> You can test the card with a TV program such a tvtime to see if the
> card actually works.
>   

    Uh... ok, I thought that MythTV *was* a TV program. There seems to 
be a lot of very confusing overlap of terms in this genre. Too many 
different things share terms.