[ubuntu-za] Video (TV) capture card

[Robert Holm]

On Tue, 2008-08-26 at 09:36 +0200, Robert Holm wrote: 
> Still battling to get mythtv to recognise my card.
> 
> Am I correct in believing that the following output means that the card
> is recognised by Ubuntu and that the driver is loaded? There isn't any
> point in continuing the struggle if the card is not operative.
> 
> lspci gives me: 00:0a.0 Multimedia controller: Philips Semiconductors
> SAA7133/SAA7135 Video Broadcast Decoder (rev d1)
> 
> dmesg | grep saa7133 gives me:
> [   42.426884] saa7133[0]: found at 0000:00:0a.0, rev: 209, irq: 3,
> latency: 32, mmio: 0xef005000
> [   42.426893] saa7133[0]: subsystem: a0a0:058e, board: UNKNOWN/GENERIC
> [card=0,autodetected]
> [   42.426909] saa7133[0]: board init: gpio is 31400
> [   42.562245] saa7133[0]: i2c eeprom 00: a0 a0 8e 05 54 20 1c 00 43 43
> a9 1c 55 d2 b2 92
> [   42.562260] saa7133[0]: i2c eeprom 10: 00 00 01 00 ff 20 ff ff ff ff
> ff ff ff ff ff ff
> [   42.562271] saa7133[0]: i2c eeprom 20: 01 40 01 03 03 01 01 03 08 ff
> 01 8e ff ff ff ff
> [   42.562281] saa7133[0]: i2c eeprom 30: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
> ff ff ff ff ff ff
> [   42.562292] saa7133[0]: i2c eeprom 40: ff 22 00 c2 96 ff 02 30 10 ff
> ff ff ff ff ff ff
> [   42.562302] saa7133[0]: i2c eeprom 50: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
> ff ff ff ff ff ff
> [   42.562313] saa7133[0]: i2c eeprom 60: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
> ff ff ff ff ff ff
> [   42.562323] saa7133[0]: i2c eeprom 70: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
> ff ff ff ff ff ff
> [   42.638340] saa7133[0]: registered device video0 [v4l2]
> [   42.638404] saa7133[0]: registered device vbi0
> [   43.301116] saa7133[0]/alsa: saa7133[0] at 0xef005000 irq 3
> registered as card -2
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Robert
> 
Guys,

I realise that question may be trivial or stupid, and the answer
probably should be self evident, but as a 77 year old struggling
newcomer to computers I really would appreciate it if one of you
knowledgeable people could set my geriatric concern to rest :-)

Thanks

Robert