[mythtv-users] One half of Nova-T has stopped working

Nick Craig-Wood nick at craig-wood.com
Thu Sep 25 11:49:21 UTC 2008


Edmund <edmund.1 at dial.pipex.com> wrote:
>  Paul Gardiner wrote:
> > Edmund wrote:
> >   
> >> I have three dual tuner Nova-T-500s. Until recently all three were fine.
> >>
> >> Now today card 5 won't tune in but 0 to 4 will. So the other half of 
> >> this card is fine.
> >>
> >> I have made some changed to both software and hardware recently, but I 
> >> have just checked that all PCI cards are fully in their slots.
> >>
> >> dmesg | grep DVB shows only the usual message.
> >>  
> >> And all three are identical.
> >>
> >> Is there anyway of identifying which card is which input in myth?
> >
> > Maybe there's some reason why in your case this would be hard to do,
> > but if it were me, I'd swap the cards in their slots to see if
> > that the changed which logical card fails. That give you some info
> > as to whether it's hardware or software.
> 
>  I'll give that a go and see if it throws up an interesting
>  result. Thanks

IIRC Nova-t 500s are USB based internally.

You might get some useful debug out of lsusb which will show you
devices, and usbview which will show you the topology.

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