[nflug] MythTV issues

Joshua Ronne Altemoos joshua at wolfnix.net
Wed Mar 8 19:42:53 EST 2006


It is built onto my AGP card and is a philips brand. Where can I get the
drivers for it so it detects it?

> It appears your system isn't recognizing the tuner.
> you should see
> 0000:00:11.0 Multimedia video controller: Brooktree
> Corporation Bt878 Video Capture (rev 11)
> 0000:00:11.1 Multimedia controller: Brooktree
> Corporation Bt878 Audio Capture (rev 11)
>
>
> --- Joshua Ronne Altemoos <joshua at wolfnix.net> wrote:
>
>> Here is what I have, I did not see the tuner but the
>> Box says it is a
>> philiphs
>>
>>
> -----------------------------------------------------------
>> # /etc/modules: kernel modules to load at boot time.
>> #
>> # This file contains the names of kernel modules
>> that should be loaded
>> # at boot time, one per line. Lines beginning with
>> "#" are ignored.
>>
>> lp
>> mousedev
>> psmouse
>> nvidia
>>
> --------------------------------------------------------------
>> root at purgatory:/etc#  lspci
>> 0000:00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc.
>> VT8363/8365 [KT133/KM133]
>> (rev 03)
>> 0000:00:01.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc.
>> VT8363/8365 [KT133/KM133 AGP]
>> 0000:00:07.0 ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc.
>> VT82C686 [Apollo Super
>> South] (rev 40)
>> 0000:00:07.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc.
>> VT82C586A/B/VT82C686/A/B/VT823x/A/C PIPC Bus Master
>> IDE (rev 06)
>> 0000:00:07.2 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc.
>> VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1
>> Controller (rev 1a)
>> 0000:00:07.3 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc.
>> VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1
>> Controller (rev 1a)
>> 0000:00:07.4 SMBus: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C686
>> [Apollo Super ACPI]
>> (rev 40)
>> 0000:00:07.5 Multimedia audio controller: VIA
>> Technologies, Inc. VT82C686
>> AC97 Audio Controller (rev 50)
>> 0000:00:0a.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek
>> Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
>> RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ (rev 10)
>> 0000:00:0c.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corp.
>> 82557/8/9 [Ethernet Pro 100]
>> (rev 08)
>> 0000:01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia
>> Corporation NV18 [GeForce4
>> MX 440 AGP 8x] (rev c1)
>> root at purgatory:/etc#
>>
>>
>> > kobear at sharedbrain.net wrote:
>> >> I did not see the error message in the email.
>> >>
>> >> Is this video card your primary video card as
>> well?  Or a secondary
>> >> card?  If it
>> >> is the primary card, then the video card portion
>> is fine.  Usually, the
>> >> tuner
>> >> would use the bttv driver.  Check out Jarod's
>> guide to installing MythTV
>> >> (http://wilsonet.com/mythtv/fcmyth.php).  It is
>> specific to FC, but it
>> >> should
>> >> give you some good pointers.
>> >>
>> >> Kyle
>> >>
>> >> Quoting Joshua Ronne Altemoos
>> <joshua at wolfnix.net>:
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>> Hey,
>> >>>
>> >>> I have a EVGA gforce4 MX|440 8x AGP card with
>> 64MB DDR with a built in
>> >>> philips tuner, I can not seem to find any type
>> of drivers for the
>> >>> tuner.
>> >>> I was able to get the nvidia for the graphics
>> end No Problem. This is
>> >>> Ubuntu
>> >>> 5.10.
>> >>> I get MythTV installed via apt-get and get
>> everthing set up but once I
>> >>> hit
>> >>> watchTv it blacks out on me and it says what I
>> have pasted below. That
>> >>> goes
>> >>> on and on and on untill I cancel the run.
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>> Anyone with any info? Thanks in advance!
>> >>>
>> >>> ~josh
>> >>>
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>> > If it is a philips chipset it most likely will use
>> the bttv module. What
>> > do you have currently in your modules file? (don't
>> know exact
>> > name/location of modules file in ubuntu). If your
>> system doesn't
>> > recognize the card, mythtv wont either. If you
>> have the kernel docs on
>> > your system, there is some pretty good info on
>> what options to use with
>> > what chipsets, etc.. You should send the output of
>>  lspci to the list
>> > and I will dig a little for ya.
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