<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:times new roman,new york,times,serif;font-size:12pt"><div><br></div><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br><div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><br><br><br><br>________________________________<br><br>Message: 23<br>Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2011 00:25:58 +0000<br>From: Nick Morrott <<a ymailto="mailto:knowledgejunkie@gmail.com" href="mailto:knowledgejunkie@gmail.com">knowledgejunkie@gmail.com</a>><br>Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Getting going<br>To: Discussion about MythTV <<a ymailto="mailto:mythtv-users@mythtv.org" href="mailto:mythtv-users@mythtv.org">mythtv-users@mythtv.org</a>><br>Message-ID:<br> <<a ymailto="mailto:AANLkTimipYiDsCdot1PmvBWd5KoCM6-b5txH7FvkwfTj@mail.gmail.com"
href="mailto:AANLkTimipYiDsCdot1PmvBWd5KoCM6-b5txH7FvkwfTj@mail.gmail.com">AANLkTimipYiDsCdot1PmvBWd5KoCM6-b5txH7FvkwfTj@mail.gmail.com</a>><br>Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8<br><br>On 27 February 2011 21:57, Alexander Ellis <<a ymailto="mailto:saveourtivo@yahoo.com" href="mailto:saveourtivo@yahoo.com">saveourtivo@yahoo.com</a>> wrote:<br>> I have installed mythbuntu using a Hauppaugge nova-s-plus card.<br>> I can watch TV using<br>> mkdir ~/.mplayer<br>> cp channels.conf ~/.mplayer<br>> mplayer dvb://"BBC THREE"<br>> But I can't get myth to find channels<br><br>Alek,<br><br>Can you provide us with more details on how you've tried to configure<br>MythTV with your DVB-S card? Are you trying to scan for channels<br>within MythTV, or are you importing your channels.conf file?<br><br>If scanning within MythTV, you need to ensure that you have configured<br>the LNB (part of capture card setup) before you can successfully
scan<br>for DVB-S channels.<br><br>Cheers,<br>Nick<br><br>-- <br>Nick Morrott<br><br>I have run through set up from the start using defaults mostly as I don't know <br>what a lot of the settings are.<br><br>I have tried setting the card as. IVTV MPEG-2 encoder and DVB DTV capture card <br>(v3.x), but neither works.<br><br>I looked at the log and it says No capture cards are defined please run the <br>setup program.<br><br>So maybe I need drivers or something to make myth see the card<br><br>I was trying to scan for channels which it does but doesn't find any<br><br>Alek<br><br><br> <br>-------------- next part --------------<br>An HTML attachment was scrubbed...<br><span>URL: <a target="_blank" href="http://www.mythtv.org/pipermail/mythtv-users/attachments/20110228/6500515b/attachment-0001.html">http://www.mythtv.org/pipermail/mythtv-users/attachments/20110228/6500515b/attachment-0001.html</a>
</span><br><br>------------------------------<br><br>Message: 15<br>Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2011 08:58:55 +0000<br>From: David Watkins <<a ymailto="mailto:watkinshome@gmail.com" href="mailto:watkinshome@gmail.com">watkinshome@gmail.com</a>><br>Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] getting going<br>To: Discussion about MythTV <<a ymailto="mailto:mythtv-users@mythtv.org" href="mailto:mythtv-users@mythtv.org">mythtv-users@mythtv.org</a>><br>Message-ID:<br> <<a ymailto="mailto:AANLkTikT-w5mGQpJkSxR1KCfbLq_g92M10YggwrdpM9Y@mail.gmail.com" href="mailto:AANLkTikT-w5mGQpJkSxR1KCfbLq_g92M10YggwrdpM9Y@mail.gmail.com">AANLkTikT-w5mGQpJkSxR1KCfbLq_g92M10YggwrdpM9Y@mail.gmail.com</a>><br>Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1<br><br>> I have run through set up from the start using defaults mostly as I don't<br>> know what a lot of the settings are.<br>> I have tried setting the card as. IVTV MPEG-2 encoder and DVB DTV
capture<br>> card (v3.x), but neither works.<br>> I looked at the log and it says No capture cards are defined please run the<br>> setup program.<br>> So maybe I need drivers or something to make myth see the card<br>> I was trying to scan for channels which it does but doesn't find any<br>> Alek<br><br>The linux equivalent of hardware drivers are kernel modules, which are<br>generally loaded automatically by the kernel, but may need to be<br>loaded by hand (or in a script) if the kernel doesn't detect the<br>hardware correctly.<br><br>You can tell if the kernel module has been loaded by looking in:<br><br>/var/log/messages<br><br>for entries referring to loading of dvb modules<br><br>or seeing whether the directories<br><br>/dev/dvb/adapter0/...<br><br>have been created.<br><br>If everything looks OK it's possible that you have a permissions<br>problem. What access rights does the /dev/dvb/... have, and what user<br>are you
running mytht-setup as? Also, I believe you should make sure<br>that mythbackend is not running when you run mythtv-setup.<br><br><br><br><br>Here is /var/log/messages<br><br><span style="border-bottom: 2px dotted rgb(54, 99, 136); cursor: pointer;" class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1298917386_9">Feb 28 16:00:51</span> al-Uk kernel: [ 91.824098] Pid: 0, comm: swapper Tainted: P <span style="border-bottom: 2px dotted rgb(54, 99, 136); cursor: pointer;" class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1298917386_10">2.6.35</span>-25-generic #44-Ubuntu<br>Feb 28 16:00:51 al-Uk kernel: [ 91.824102] Call Trace:<br>Feb 28 16:00:51 al-Uk kernel: [ 91.824115] [<c014ad42>] warn_slowpath_common+0x72/0xa0<br>Feb 28 16:00:51 al-Uk kernel: [ 91.824120] [<c050f67d>] ? dev_watchdog+0x1fd/0x210<br>Feb 28 16:00:51 al-Uk kernel: [ 91.824124]
[<c050f67d>] ? dev_watchdog+0x1fd/0x210<br>Feb 28 16:00:51 al-Uk kernel: [ 91.824129] [<c014ae13>]
warn_slowpath_fmt+0x33/0x40<br>Feb 28 16:00:51 al-Uk kernel: [ 91.824133] [<c050f67d>] dev_watchdog+0x1fd/0x210<br>Feb 28 16:00:51 al-Uk kernel: [ 91.824142] [<c0161e46>] ? insert_work+0x66/0xb0<br>Feb 28 16:00:51 al-Uk kernel: [ 91.824150] [<c012cf18>] ? default_spin_lock_flags+0x8/0x10<br>Feb 28 16:00:51 al-Uk kernel: [ 91.824154] [<c0162106>] ? __queue_work+0x36/0x50<br>Feb 28 16:00:51 al-Uk kernel: [ 91.824159] [<c050f480>] ? dev_watchdog+0x0/0x210<br>Feb 28 16:00:51 al-Uk kernel: [ 91.824163] [<c0157f0f>] call_timer_fn+0x2f/0xf0<br>Feb 28 16:00:51 al-Uk kernel: [ 91.824167] [<c01223eb>] ? lapic_next_event+0x1b/0x20<br>Feb 28 16:00:51 al-Uk kernel: [ 91.824176] [<c017452b>] ? clockevents_program_event+0x8b/0x140<br>Feb 28 16:00:51 al-Uk kernel: [
91.824180] [<c0159154>] run_timer_softirq+0x104/0x210<br>Feb 28 16:00:51 al-Uk kernel: [ 91.824185] [<c0175932>] ? tick_dev_program_event+0x42/0x150<br>Feb 28 16:00:51 al-Uk kernel: [ 91.824189] [<c050f480>] ? dev_watchdog+0x0/0x210<br>Feb 28 16:00:51 al-Uk kernel: [ 91.824196] [<c015136c>] __do_softirq+0x9c/0x1b0<br>Feb 28 16:00:51 al-Uk kernel: [ 91.824200] [<c016c35e>] ? sched_clock_tick+0x5e/0x90<br>Feb 28 16:00:51 al-Uk kernel: [ 91.824204] [<c01514c5>] do_softirq+0x45/0x50<br>Feb 28 16:00:51 al-Uk kernel: [ 91.824208] [<c0151635>] irq_exit+0x65/0x70<br>Feb 28 16:00:51 al-Uk kernel: [ 91.824213] [<c05d0c5b>] smp_apic_timer_interrupt+0x5b/0x8a<br>Feb 28 16:00:51 al-Uk kernel: [ 91.824219] [<c05caa65>] apic_timer_interrupt+0x31/0x38<br><span
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16:00:51</span> al-Uk kernel: [ 91.824223] [<c012c31a>] ? native_safe_halt+0xa/0x10<br>Feb 28 16:00:51 al-Uk kernel: [ 91.824232] [<c010a3b9>] default_idle+0x49/0xb0<br>Feb 28 16:00:51 al-Uk kernel: [ 91.824236] [<c0101fcc>] cpu_idle+0x8c/0xd0<br>Feb 28 16:00:51 al-Uk kernel: [ 91.824242] [<c05b3951>] rest_init+0x71/0x80<br>Feb 28 16:00:51 al-Uk kernel: [ 91.824249] [<c081981a>] start_kernel+0x36e/0x374<br>Feb 28 16:00:51 al-Uk kernel: [ 91.824253] [<c08199dd>] ? pass_all_bootoptions+0x0/0xa<br>Feb 28 16:00:51 al-Uk kernel: [ 91.824257] [<c08190d7>] i386_start_kernel+0xd7/0xdf<br>Feb 28 16:00:51 al-Uk kernel: [ 91.824261] ---[ end trace ce0ed5923c1b2792 ]---<br>Feb 28 16:00:51 al-Uk kernel: [ 91.824266] eth0: Transmit timeout, status 00000004 00000000<br>Feb 28
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al-Uk kernel: [ 92.576871] eth0: Media Link On 100mbps full-duplex<br><span style="border-bottom: 2px dotted rgb(54, 99, 136); cursor: pointer;" class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1298917386_12">Feb 28 16:00:57</span> al-Uk kernel: [ 98.592310] eth0: Media Link Off<br><span style="border-bottom: 2px dotted rgb(54, 99, 136); cursor: pointer;" class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1298917386_13">Feb 28 16:01:07</span> al-Uk kernel: [ 107.824022] eth0: Transmit timeout, status 00000004 00000000<br>Feb 28 16:01:07 al-Uk kernel: [ 108.608911] eth0: Media Link On 100mbps full-duplex<br>al@al-Uk:~$ <br><br>I was mistaken before looking for adapter O it is adapter zero.<br><br>Adapter 0 exists and contains...demux0 dvr0 frontend0 net0<br><br><br>I don't understand about access rights or running as a different user.<br><br>Setup does ask me to stop the back end before set up.<br><br><br>Alek<br><br><br><br><br></div></div>
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