[ubuntu-za] Video (TV) capture card

[Robert Holm]

On Wed, 2008-08-27 at 21:00 +0200, Jan Kroeze wrote:
> Well, I know nothing about video cards, but the lspci output is a bit
> odd.
> 
> 00:0a.0 ... is that correct? Might be worth some research.
> 
> Also, the last line from dmesg is "registered as card -2". As a
> programmer, that would indicate an error to me...
> 
Thanks for the response Jan, much appreciated 

> 2008/8/27 Robert Holm <robhholm at lantic.net>
>         
>         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
>         
>         
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> 
> 
> -- 
> Jan Kroeze
>