<html><head><style type="text/css"></style></head><body><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:14pt">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   <div> </div><div align="center">"Freedom of speech looses its meaning if dissenting ideas are banned by the medical dismissal of those who speak them out." Tristano Ajmone </div><div style="color: rgb(191, 191, 0); font-weight: bold;" align="center">FAX: 0865-141011 MOBILE: +27+82-425-1454 SKYPE: david.robert.lewis PO BOX 4398, CAPE TOWN 8000 RSA</div><div> </div><div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"> <div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">----- Original Message ---- From: Robert Holm <robhholm@lantic.net> To: Ubuntu South African Local Community <ubuntu-za@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) > > <a href="http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-357706.html" target="_blank">http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-357706.html</a> > > 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 <<a ymailto="mailto:robhholm@lantic.net" href="mailto:robhholm@lantic.net">robhholm@lantic.net</a>> > > >        > > >        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 > > >        > > >        > > >        -- > > >        ubuntu-za mailing list > > >        <a ymailto="mailto:ubuntu-za@lists.ubuntu.com" href="mailto:ubuntu-za@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-za@lists.ubuntu.com</a> > > >        <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-za" target="_blank">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-za</a> > > >        > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > Jan Kroeze > > > > > > > > > -- ubuntu-za mailing list <a ymailto="mailto:ubuntu-za@lists.ubuntu.com" href="mailto:ubuntu-za@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-za@lists.ubuntu.com</a> <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-za" target="_blank">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-za</a> </div></div></div> </body></html>