[mythtv-users] How do I get a firewire GUID to show up in mythtv-setup

Jarod Wilson jarod at wilsonet.com
Sun Oct 11 04:22:16 UTC 2009


On Oct 10, 2009, at 11:40 PM, <bhaskins at chartermi.net> wrote:

> ---- Don Brett <dlbrett at zoominternet.net> wrote:
>> I have a new installation of Mythdora-10 and the box has a PCI  
>> firewire
>> board, but the guid is not displayed during mythtv-setup capture card
>> creation (and LiveTv doesn't do anything). I've tried several  
>> variations
>> on the installations, but each does the same thing. During  
>> installation,
>> there doesn't seem to be anything special to do.  Perhaps there a  
>> step I
>> missed? Here's what I have so far:
>>
>> [mythtv at localhost ~]$ lspci
>> ...
>> ...
>> 01:06.0 Multimedia video controller: Internext Compression Inc iTVC16
>> (CX23416) MPEG-2 Encoder (rev 01)
>> 01:07.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Texas Instruments TSB12LV26 IEEE-1394
>> Controller (Link)
>>
>> [mythtv at localhost ~]$ dmesg | grep firewire
>> firewire_ohci 0000:01:07.0: PCI INT A -> Link[LNKB] -> GSI 19 (level,
>> low) -> IRQ 19
>> firewire_ohci: Added fw-ohci device 0000:01:07.0, OHCI version 1.0
>> firewire_core: created device fw0: GUID 00308d0120435263, S400
...
> On all of mine, the GUID comes from the STB which must be
> on and connected at the time that you select the capture card.
> and there are two drivers shown by lsmod.
> The capture card page should be filled up as soon as you
> select FireWire.

Yep, dmesg only shows fw0 present on the bus, and that would be the  
controller itself. The cable box isn't seen at all. As suggested, the  
cable box needs to be on. If you still don't get an fw1, then the  
firewire port on your cable box might not actually be active.

-- 
Jarod Wilson
jarod at wilsonet.com






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