[ubuntu-za] Video (TV) capture card

[Dale Marshall]

Sorry Robert, here's something for you to take a look at. seems you
haven't got the modules loaded for your card (board: UNKNOWN/GENERIC)

http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-357706.html

hope that gives you enough to go with for now.

Dale

On Wed, 2008-08-27 at 21:12 +0200, Robert Holm wrote:
> 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
> > 
> 
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