[linux-dvb] Re: 5 months and counting...

[Andrew de Quincey <adq_dvb@lidskialf.net>]

On Monday 11 Oct 2004 01:41, raid517 wrote:
> Well maybe this is a record, but I have been trying on ond off for about
> 5 months now to get my TV card working in Linux.
>
> In that time I have tried maybe 8 different distros (although I am now
> settled on Debian with no intention of switching).
>
> I think unless any of you guys have any more suggestions it may be time
> to give up.
>
> Everything seems as it should be. I have a winTV nova-t card, the
> drivers and (as far as I can tell) the firmware is loaded, the script
> MAKEDEV-DVB.sh to create the correct devices in /dev/dvb ran without a
> glitch, lspci and modprobe lists my drivers and card type as being in
> agreement, cat /proc/devices gives 212 DVB as my major DVB device number
> - everything *seems* to be singing in harmony. Yet when I run the
> command ./scan dvb-t/uk-Fenham I just get the same old output I have
> always got:
>
> ./scan dvb-t/uk-Fenham
> scanning dvb-t/uk-Fenham
> using '/dev/dvb/adapter0/frontend0' and '/dev/dvb/adapter0/demux0'
> main:1882: FATAL: failed to open '/dev/dvb/adapter0/frontend0': 19 No
> such device

What is the output of lspci -v?

Does the card work under windows?