[nflug] MythTV issues
Cyber Source
peter at thecybersource.com
Wed Mar 8 22:11:01 EST 2006
Joshua Ronne Altemoos wrote:
> 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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Even iIF you did not have the drivers for it, the lspci should show the
device. Show us the details of "lspci -vvvv"
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