[ubuntu-za] Offline Repository

[David Robert Lewis]

Dear LoCo

I am appealing to the LoCo to make available offline repositories of .deb files for Ubuntu. I am running Hardy Heron x64 and have installed Dapper Drake on an old x86 for a friend.

Regards

DRL
 

 
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----- Original Message ----
From: Robert Holm <robhholm at lantic.net>
To: Ubuntu South African Local Community <ubuntu-za at lists.ubuntu.com>
Sent: Thursday, 28 August, 2008 8:09:54
Subject: Re: [ubuntu-za] Video (TV) capture card

On Wed, 2008-08-27 at 23:06 +0200, Dale Marshall wrote:
> 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
> 
Thanks Dale. That looks pretty comprehensive. Will work through it this
afternoon and report back.

Gratefully

Robert

> 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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> > >        ubuntu-za at lists.ubuntu.com
> > >        https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-za
> > >        
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > -- 
> > > Jan Kroeze
> > > 
> > 
> > 
> 
> 


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