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

Nick Craig-Wood nick at craig-wood.com
Mon Sep 29 08:07:46 UTC 2008


Edmund <edmund.1 at dial.pipex.com> wrote:
>  Nick Craig-Wood wrote:
> > 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.
> >>>>
> >>>>         
> > 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.
> >
> >   
>  Sorry to ask for further help but I am quite new to this. I am running 
>  Ubuntu server 8.04. I am using USB viewer with X forwarding. X isn't 
>  installed on the backend.
> 
>  I get and error can not open the file /proc/bus/usb/devices. (Verify 
>  that you have USB compiled into your kernel, have the USB core modules 
>  loaded and have the usbdevfs filesystem mounted.
> 
>  I'm not sure what I have. lsusb works.
> 
>  I tried mount -t usbdevfs none /proc/bus/usb but I get unknown 
>  filesystem type. apt-cache search doesn't show anything for
>  usbdevfs

Odd...

Posting the output of lsusb should give a clue though

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