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

[Edmund]

Nicolas Will wrote:
> On Mon, 2008-09-29 at 09:07 +0100, Nick Craig-Wood wrote:
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>> Edmund <edmund.1 at dial.pipex.com> wrote:
>>     
>>>  Nick Craig-Wood wrote:
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>>>> Edmund <edmund.1 at dial.pipex.com> wrote:
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>>>>         
>>>>>  Paul Gardiner wrote:
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>>>>>           
>>>>>> Edmund wrote:
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>>>>>>> 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.
>>>>
>>>>   
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>>>  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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>
>
> This should help for the tuner loss:
>
> http://www.youplala.net/linux/home-theater-pc#toc-not-losing-one-of-the-nova-t-500s-tuners
>
> Nico
>   
I think I might have had a hardware failure. My problem remained even 
after a reboot. When I rotated my cards the problem moved with it. I 
have now replaced a card and all 6 tuners now record. I have turned EIT 
off on all cards and I do have a delay on the tuning.