[linux-dvb] help! my modules have sudenly gone silent

[Scott White <scott-dvb@riskboys.com>]

I'm baffled.  I hope someone can help.

I have been running a Dell server with two Nova-T cards and Gentoo-
dev-2.6.8 for several months.  Today I upgraded the kernel to gentoo-
dev-2.6.10 and rebooted, (for the first time in two months).  When the
system came up the cards were not functioning and MythTv failed to
start.  So rather than debug it there and then I rebooted into my
original 2.6.8 but it was broken there also.  All the modules are loaded
but I have nothing in /dev/dvb.  If I

rmmod ttpci-eeprom saa7146_vv saa7146 tda1004x dvb-core v4l1-compat

modprobe v4l1-compat ; modprobe dvb-core ; modprobe tda1004x ; modprobe
saa7146 ; modprobe saa7146_vv  ; modprobe ttpci-eeprom

I get absolutely nothing in dmesg or /var/log/messages.  Not a single
line acknowledging the modules loaded or unloaded, never mind any error
messages.  This was working but something I have done has broken it.  My
best guess is one of the many regular updates to my gentoo packages has
done something but I can't even think where to start.

Does anyone have any tips?



Here is my lspci

0000:00:00.0 Host bridge: ServerWorks GCNB-LE Host Bridge (rev 32)
0000:00:00.1 Host bridge: ServerWorks GCNB-LE Host Bridge
0000:00:02.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corp. 82540EM Gigabit Ethernet
Controller (rev 02)
0000:00:04.0 Multimedia video controller: Internext Compression Inc
iTVC16 (CX23416) MPEG-2 Encoder (rev 01)
0000:00:06.0 Multimedia video controller: Brooktree Corporation Bt878
Video Capture (rev 11)
0000:00:06.1 Multimedia controller: Brooktree Corporation Bt878 Audio
Capture (rev 11)
0000:00:0e.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Rage XL
(rev 27)
0000:00:0f.0 Host bridge: ServerWorks CSB5 South Bridge (rev 93)
0000:00:0f.1 IDE interface: ServerWorks CSB5 IDE Controller (rev 93)
0000:00:0f.2 USB Controller: ServerWorks OSB4/CSB5 OHCI USB Controller
(rev 05)
0000:00:0f.3 ISA bridge: ServerWorks CSB5 LPC bridge
0000:00:10.0 Host bridge: ServerWorks CIOB-X2 (rev 05)
0000:00:10.2 Host bridge: ServerWorks CIOB-X2 (rev 05)
0000:01:02.0 Multimedia controller: Philips Semiconductors SAA7146 (rev
01)
0000:01:04.0 SCSI storage controller: LSI Logic / Symbios Logic 53c1030
PCI-X Fusion-MPT Dual Ultra320 SCSI (rev 07)
0000:01:06.0 Multimedia controller: Philips Semiconductors SAA7146 (rev
01)
0000:02:02.0 RAID bus controller: 3ware Inc 3ware ATA-RAID


And my lsmod


Module                  Size  Used by
ttpci_eeprom            3328  0
saa7146_vv             50048  0
saa7146                19368  1 saa7146_vv
tda1004x               18568  0
dvb_core               86312  1 tda1004x
v4l1_compat            14340  1 saa7146_vv
sg                     35232  0
usbcore               115684  1
sd_mod                 20608  2
video_buf              22404  1 saa7146_vv
v4l2_common             6784  1 saa7146_vv
videodev               10496  1 saa7146_vv
3w_9xxx                33924  1
e1000                  82948  0
st                     39964  0