I bought a NEXUS-s Version 2.2. How can I get it to work on Debian Sarge with Kernel 2.6.11 with plain old Antenna reception? I'd like to use kdetv to watch TV with if possible.

I found this information about the card:

features: decoder, partialts
card driver: dvb-ttpci
interface: PCI
PCI device id: 1131:7146
PCI subsystem id: 13c2:0003
Bridge: Philips SAA7146A
audio DAC: Crystal CS4341
frontend possibility 1:
tin box: ALPS BSRU6
frontend driver: stv0299
demodulator location: tin box
demodulator: ST stv0299b @0x68
PLL: Philips tsa5059 @0x61
Notes: This card has the same PCI ID as the other rev2.X DVB-S c

I ran "modprobe dvb-ttpci" and there were no errors, what do I do next? I have kdetv and xawtv both installed, but I can't see any channel list... I'm new to this. Thanks.

Update: TVTime says "videoinput: Cannot open capture device /dev/video0: No such device" when I run it. Please help.

WolfCub

Firstly I'm not familiar with Debian Sarge or a Linux TV expert but here goes

Is this your card "WinTV-Nexus-s (=Technotrend Premium 2.1 or 2.2)"

If so the driver should be "bttv" Information from Here

Try as root

# modprobe bttv

Then still as root check

# lspci (may need to use sbin/lspci)

Here's mine

0000:03:04.0 Multimedia video controller: Brooktree Corporation Bt878 Video Capture (rev 11)
0000:03:04.1 Multimedia controller: Brooktree Corporation Bt878 Audio Capture (rev 11)

# dmesg (again may need sbin/dmesg)

Here's mine

Linux video capture interface: v1.00
bttv: driver version 0.9.15 loaded
bttv: using 8 buffers with 2080k (520 pages) each for capture
bttv: Bt8xx card found (0).
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:03:04.0[A] -> GSI 18 (level, low) -> IRQ 169
bttv0: Bt878 (rev 17) at 0000:03:04.0, irq: 169, latency: 32, mmio: 0xfc001000
bttv0: detected: Hauppauge WinTV [card=10], PCI subsystem ID is 0070:13eb
bttv0: using: Hauppauge (bt878) [card=10,autodetected]
bttv0: gpio: en=00000000, out=00000000 in=00ffffdb [init]
bttv0: Hauppauge/Voodoo msp34xx: reset line init [5]
i2c-algo-bit.o: (0) scl=1, sda=1
i2c-algo-bit.o: (1) scl=1, sda=0
i2c-algo-bit.o: (2) scl=1, sda=1
i2c-algo-bit.o: (3) scl=0, sda=1
i2c-algo-bit.o: (4) scl=1, sda=1
i2c-algo-bit.o: bt878 #0 [sw] passed test.
tveeprom: Hauppauge: model = 44805, rev = D135, serial# = 7421672
tveeprom: tuner = Temic 4066FY5 (idx = 35, type = 18)
tveeprom: tuner fmt = PAL(I) (eeprom = 0x10, v4l2 = 0x00000010)
tveeprom: audio_processor = None (type = 0)
bttv0: using tuner=18
bttv0: i2c: checking for MSP34xx @ 0x80... not found
bttv0: i2c: checking for TDA9875 @ 0xb0... not found
bttv0: i2c: checking for TDA7432 @ 0x8a... not found
tvaudio: TV audio decoder + audio/video mux driver
tvaudio: known chips: tda9840,tda9873h,tda9874h/a,tda9850,tda9855,tea6300,tea6320,tea6420,tda8425,pic16c54 (PV951),ta8874z
bttv0: i2c: checking for TDA9887 @ 0x86... not found
tuner: chip found at addr 0xc2 i2c-bus bt878 #0 [sw]
tuner: type set to 18 (Temic PAL_I (4066 FY5)) by bt878 #0 [sw]
bttv0: registered device video0
bttv0: registered device vbi0
bttv0: PLL: 28636363 => 35468950 .. ok

See if the above gives any results if so we can move on, if not at least I tried

Pete

debian:~# modprobe bttv


debian:~# lspci
0000:00:00.0 Host bridge: nVidia Corporation nForce2 AGP (different version?) (rev c1)
0000:00:00.1 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation nForce2 Memory Controller 1 (rev c1)
0000:00:00.2 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation nForce2 Memory Controller 4 (rev c1)
0000:00:00.3 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation nForce2 Memory Controller 3 (rev c1)
0000:00:00.4 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation nForce2 Memory Controller 2 (rev c1)
0000:00:00.5 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation nForce2 Memory Controller 5 (rev c1)
0000:00:01.0 ISA bridge: nVidia Corporation nForce2 ISA Bridge (rev a4)
0000:00:01.1 SMBus: nVidia Corporation nForce2 SMBus (MCP) (rev a2)
0000:00:02.0 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation nForce2 USB Controller (rev a4)
0000:00:02.1 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation nForce2 USB Controller (rev a4)
0000:00:02.2 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation nForce2 USB Controller (rev a4)
0000:00:04.0 Ethernet controller: nVidia Corporation nForce2 Ethernet Controller (rev a1)
0000:00:05.0 Multimedia audio controller: nVidia Corporation nForce MultiMedia audio [Via VT82C686B] (rev a2)
0000:00:06.0 Multimedia audio controller: nVidia Corporation nForce2 AC97 Audio Controler (MCP) (rev a1)
0000:00:08.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation nForce2 External PCI Bridge (rev a3)
0000:00:09.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation nForce2 IDE (rev a2)
0000:00:0c.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation nForce2 PCI Bridge (rev a3)
0000:00:0d.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): nVidia Corporation nForce2 FireWire (IEEE 1394) Controller (rev a3)
0000:00:1e.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation nForce2 AGP (rev c1)
0000:01:08.0 Multimedia controller: Philips Semiconductors SAA7146 (rev 01)
0000:01:0b.0 RAID bus controller: Silicon Image, Inc. (formerly CMD Technology Inc) SiI 3112 [SATALink/SATARaid] Serial ATA Controller (rev 02)
0000:02:01.0 Ethernet controller: 3Com Corporation 3C920B-EMB Integrated Fast Ethernet Controller [Tornado] (rev 40)
0000:03:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation: Unknown device 0045 (rev a1)
debian:~#


debian:~# dmesg
PI: PCI Interrupt Link [LUBA] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 10 11 *12 14 15)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LUBB] (IRQs 3 4 *5 6 7 10 11 12 14 15)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LMAC] (IRQs 3 4 *5 6 7 10 11 12 14 15)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LAPU] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 10 11 *12 14 15)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LACI] (IRQs 3 4 *5 6 7 10 11 12 14 15)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LMCI] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 10 11 12 14 15) *0, disabled.
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LSMB] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 10 *11 12 14 15)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LUB2] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 10 11 *12 14 15)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LFIR] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 10 *11 12 14 15)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [L3CM] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 10 11 *12 14 15)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LIDE] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 10 11 12 14 15) *0, disabled.
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [APC1] (IRQs *16), disabled.
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [APC2] (IRQs *17), disabled.
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [APC3] (IRQs *18), disabled.
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [APC4] (IRQs *19), disabled.
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [APC5] (IRQs *16), disabled.
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [APCF] (IRQs 20 21 22) *0, disabled.
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [APCG] (IRQs 20 21 22) *0, disabled.
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [APCH] (IRQs 20 21 22) *0, disabled.
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [APCI] (IRQs 20 21 22) *0, disabled.
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [APCJ] (IRQs 20 21 22) *0, disabled.
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [APCK] (IRQs 20 21 22) *0, disabled.
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [APCS] (IRQs *23), disabled.
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [APCL] (IRQs 20 21 22) *0, disabled.
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [APCM] (IRQs 20 21 22) *0, disabled.
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [AP3C] (IRQs 20 21 22) *0, disabled.
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [APCZ] (IRQs 20 21 22) *0, disabled.
Linux Plug and Play Support v0.97 (c) Adam Belay
pnp: PnP ACPI init
pnp: PnP ACPI: found 15 devices
PnPBIOS: Disabled by ACPI PNP
PCI: Using ACPI for IRQ routing
** PCI interrupts are no longer routed automatically. If this
** causes a device to stop working, it is probably because the
** driver failed to call pci_enable_device(). As a temporary
** workaround, the "pci=routeirq" argument restores the old
** behavior. If this argument makes the device work again,
** please email the output of "lspci" to bjorn.helgaas@hp.com
** so I can fix the driver.
pnp: 00:00: ioport range 0x4000-0x407f could not be reserved
pnp: 00:00: ioport range 0x4080-0x40ff has been reserved
pnp: 00:00: ioport range 0x4400-0x447f has been reserved
pnp: 00:00: ioport range 0x4480-0x44ff could not be reserved
pnp: 00:00: ioport range 0x4200-0x427f has been reserved
pnp: 00:00: ioport range 0x4280-0x42ff has been reserved
pnp: 00:01: ioport range 0x5000-0x503f has been reserved
pnp: 00:01: ioport range 0x5500-0x553f has been reserved
highmem bounce pool size: 64 pages
VFS: Disk quotas dquot_6.5.1
Dquot-cache hash table entries: 1024 (order 0, 4096 bytes)
devfs: 2004-01-31 Richard Gooch (rgooch@atnf.csiro.au)
devfs: boot_options: 0x0
Initializing Cryptographic API
isapnp: Scanning for PnP cards...
isapnp: No Plug & Play device found
serio: i8042 AUX port at 0x60,0x64 irq 12
serio: i8042 KBD port at 0x60,0x64 irq 1
Serial: 8250/16550 driver $Revision: 1.90 $ 48 ports, IRQ sharing enabled
ttyS0 at I/O 0x3f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
ttyS1 at I/O 0x2f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A
ttyS0 at I/O 0x3f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
ttyS1 at I/O 0x2f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A
io scheduler noop registered
io scheduler anticipatory registered
io scheduler deadline registered
io scheduler cfq registered
RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 8192K size 1024 blocksize
input: AT Translated Set 2 keyboard on isa0060/serio0
NET: Registered protocol family 2
IP: routing cache hash table of 8192 buckets, 64Kbytes
TCP established hash table entries: 262144 (order: 9, 2097152 bytes)
TCP bind hash table entries: 65536 (order: 6, 262144 bytes)
TCP: Hash tables configured (established 262144 bind 65536)
NET: Registered protocol family 8
NET: Registered protocol family 20
ACPI wakeup devices:
HUB0 HUB1 USB0 USB1 USB2 F139 MMAC MMCI UAR1
ACPI: (supports S0 S1 S4 S4bios S5)
RAMDISK: cramfs filesystem found at block 0
RAMDISK: Loading 4744KiB [1 disk] into ram disk... done.
VFS: Mounted root (cramfs filesystem) readonly.
Freeing unused kernel memory: 172k freed
NET: Registered protocol family 1
Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00alpha2
ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
NFORCE2: IDE controller at PCI slot 0000:00:09.0
NFORCE2: chipset revision 162
NFORCE2: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
NFORCE2: BIOS didn't set cable bits correctly. Enabling workaround.
NFORCE2: 0000:00:09.0 (rev a2) UDMA133 controller
ide0: BM-DMA at 0xf000-0xf007, BIOS settings: hdaMA, hdbMA
ide1: BM-DMA at 0xf008-0xf00f, BIOS settings: hdcMA, hddMA
Probing IDE interface ide0...
hda: WDC WD2500PB-98FBA0, ATA DISK drive
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
Probing IDE interface ide1...
hdc: HL-DT-ST RW/DVD GCC-4520B, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
Probing IDE interface ide2...
Probing IDE interface ide3...
Probing IDE interface ide4...
Probing IDE interface ide5...
hda: max request size: 1024KiB
hda: 488397168 sectors (250059 MB) w/8192KiB Cache, CHS=30401/255/63, UDMA(100)
hda: cache flushes supported
/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0: p1 p2 p4
VFS: Can't find ext3 filesystem on dev hda2.
VFS: Can't find an ext2 filesystem on dev hda2.
ReiserFS: hda2: found reiserfs format "3.6" with standard journal
ReiserFS: hda2: using ordered data mode
ReiserFS: hda2: journal params: device hda2, size 8192, journal first block 18, max trans len 1024, max batch 900, max commit age 30, max trans age 30
ReiserFS: hda2: checking transaction log (hda2)
ReiserFS: hda2: Using r5 hash to sort names
Adding 1052216k swap on /dev/hda1. Priority:-1 extents:1
Real Time Clock Driver v1.12
hdc: ATAPI 52X DVD-ROM CD-R/RW drive, 2048kB Cache, UDMA(33)
Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20
ieee1394: Initialized config rom entry `ip1394'
SCSI subsystem initialized
sbp2: $Rev: 1219 $ Ben Collins <bcollins@debian.org>
Capability LSM initialized
ReiserFS: hda4: found reiserfs format "3.6" with standard journal
ReiserFS: hda4: using ordered data mode
ReiserFS: hda4: journal params: device hda4, size 8192, journal first block 18, max trans len 1024, max batch 900, max commit age 30, max trans age 30
ReiserFS: hda4: checking transaction log (hda4)
ReiserFS: hda4: Using r5 hash to sort names
Linux agpgart interface v0.100 (c) Dave Jones
ohci1394: $Rev: 1223 $ Ben Collins <bcollins@debian.org>
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [APCM] enabled at IRQ 22
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:0d.0[A] -> GSI 22 (level, high) -> IRQ 177
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:0d.0 to 64
ohci1394: fw-host0: OHCI-1394 1.1 (PCI): IRQ=[177] MMIO=[eb084000-eb0847ff] Max Packet=[2048]
forcedeth.c: Reverse Engineered nForce ethernet driver. Version 0.31.
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [APCH] enabled at IRQ 21
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:04.0[A] -> GSI 21 (level, high) -> IRQ 185
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:04.0 to 64
eth0: forcedeth.c: subsystem: 01043:80a7 bound to 0000:00:04.0
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [AP3C] enabled at IRQ 20
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:02:01.0[A] -> GSI 20 (level, high) -> IRQ 193
3c59x: Donald Becker and others. www.scyld.com/network/vortex.html
0000:02:01.0: 3Com PCI 3c920 Tornado at 0xc000. Vers LK1.1.19
libata version 1.10 loaded.
sata_sil version 0.8
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [APC3] enabled at IRQ 18
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:01:0b.0[A] -> GSI 18 (level, high) -> IRQ 201
ata1: SATA max UDMA/100 cmd 0xF8B38080 ctl 0xF8B3808A bmdma 0xF8B38000 irq 201
ata2: SATA max UDMA/100 cmd 0xF8B380C0 ctl 0xF8B380CA bmdma 0xF8B38008 irq 201
ohci1394: fw-host0: SelfID received outside of bus reset sequence
ata1: no device found (phy stat 00000000)
scsi0 : sata_sil
ata2: no device found (phy stat 00000000)
scsi1 : sata_sil
ieee1394: Host added: ID:BUS[0-00:1023] GUID[00e0180000255f9b]
eth1394: $Rev: 1224 $ Ben Collins <bcollins@debian.org>
eth1394: eth2: IEEE-1394 IPv4 over 1394 Ethernet (fw-host0)
usbcore: registered new driver usbfs
usbcore: registered new driver hub
ohci_hcd: 2004 Nov 08 USB 1.1 'Open' Host Controller (OHCI) Driver (PCI)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [APCF] enabled at IRQ 22
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:02.0[A] -> GSI 22 (level, high) -> IRQ 177
ohci_hcd 0000:00:02.0: nVidia Corporation nForce2 USB Controller
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:02.0 to 64
ohci_hcd 0000:00:02.0: irq 177, pci mem 0xeb087000
ohci_hcd 0000:00:02.0: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1
hub 1-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 1-0:1.0: 3 ports detected
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [APCG] enabled at IRQ 21
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:02.1[B] -> GSI 21 (level, high) -> IRQ 185
ohci_hcd 0000:00:02.1: nVidia Corporation nForce2 USB Controller (#2)
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:02.1 to 64
ohci_hcd 0000:00:02.1: irq 185, pci mem 0xeb082000
ohci_hcd 0000:00:02.1: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 2
hub 2-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 2-0:1.0: 3 ports detected
usb 1-1: new full speed USB device using ohci_hcd and address 2
usb 1-2: new low speed USB device using ohci_hcd and address 3
usbcore: registered new driver hiddev
input: USB HID v1.11 Mouse [Logitech USB Receiver] on usb-0000:00:02.0-2
usbcore: registered new driver usbhid
drivers/usb/input/hid-core.c: v2.0:USB HID core driver
drivers/usb/class/usblp.c: usblp0: USB Bidirectional printer dev 2 if 0 alt 0 proto 2 vid 0x03F0 pid 0x7304
usbcore: registered new driver usblp
drivers/usb/class/usblp.c: v0.13: USB Printer Device Class driver
ts: Compaq touchscreen protocol output
mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [APCL] enabled at IRQ 20
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:02.2[C] -> GSI 20 (level, high) -> IRQ 193
ehci_hcd 0000:00:02.2: nVidia Corporation nForce2 USB Controller
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:02.2 to 64
ehci_hcd 0000:00:02.2: irq 193, pci mem 0xeb083000
ehci_hcd 0000:00:02.2: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 3
PCI: cache line size of 64 is not supported by device 0000:00:02.2
ehci_hcd 0000:00:02.2: park 0
ehci_hcd 0000:00:02.2: USB 2.0 initialized, EHCI 1.00, driver 10 Dec 2004
usb 1-1: USB disconnect, address 2
drivers/usb/class/usblp.c: usblp0: removed
hub 3-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 3-0:1.0: 6 ports detected
usb 1-2: USB disconnect, address 3
ohci_hcd 0000:00:02.0: wakeup
usb 1-1: new full speed USB device using ohci_hcd and address 4
drivers/usb/class/usblp.c: usblp0: USB Bidirectional printer dev 4 if 0 alt 0 proto 2 vid 0x03F0 pid 0x7304
usb 1-2: new low speed USB device using ohci_hcd and address 5
input: USB HID v1.11 Mouse [Logitech USB Receiver] on usb-0000:00:02.0-2
agpgart: Detected NVIDIA nForce2 chipset
agpgart: Maximum main memory to use for agp memory: 941M
agpgart: AGP aperture is 64M @ 0xe0000000
i2c_adapter i2c-0: nForce2 SMBus adapter at 0x5000
i2c_adapter i2c-1: nForce2 SMBus adapter at 0x5500
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [APCJ] enabled at IRQ 22
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:06.0[A] -> GSI 22 (level, high) -> IRQ 177
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:06.0 to 64
intel8x0_measure_ac97_clock: measured 49198 usecs
intel8x0: clocking to 47388
cpci_hotplug: CompactPCI Hot Plug Core version: 0.2
pci_hotplug: PCI Hot Plug PCI Core version: 0.5
shpchp: shpc_init : shpc_cap_offset == 0
shpchp: shpc_init : shpc_cap_offset == 0
shpchp: shpc_init : shpc_cap_offset == 0
shpchp: Standard Hot Plug PCI Controller Driver version: 0.4
Linux video capture interface: v1.00
saa7146: register extension 'dvb'.
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:01:08.0[A] -> GSI 18 (level, high) -> IRQ 201
saa7146: found saa7146 @ mem f8d8a000 (revision 1, irq 201) (0x13c2,0x0003).
dvb-ttpci: could not load firmware, file not found: dvb-ttpci-01.fw
dvb-ttpci: usually this should be in /usr/lib/hotplug/firmware
dvb-ttpci: and can be downloaded here http://www.linuxtv.org/download/dvb/firmware/
input: PC Speaker
Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077
parport: PnPBIOS parport detected.
parport0: PC-style at 0x378 (0x778), irq 7, dma 3 [PCSPP,TRISTATE,COMPAT,ECP,DMA]
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:02:01.0[A] -> GSI 20 (level, high) -> IRQ 193
CSLIP: code copyright 1989 Regents of the University of California
PPP generic driver version 2.4.2
NET: Registered protocol family 17
NET: Registered protocol family 10
Disabled Privacy Extensions on device c0320820(lo)
IPv6 over IPv4 tunneling driver
lp0: using parport0 (interrupt-driven).
Warning: /proc/ide/hd?/settings interface is obsolete, and will be removed soon!
nvidia: module license 'NVIDIA' taints kernel.
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [APC4] enabled at IRQ 19
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:03:00.0[A] -> GSI 19 (level, high) -> IRQ 209
NVRM: loading NVIDIA Linux x86 NVIDIA Kernel Module 1.0-7174 Tue Mar 22 06:44:39 PST 2005
agpgart: Found an AGP 3.0 compliant device at 0000:00:00.0.
agpgart: Putting AGP V3 device at 0000:00:00.0 into 8x mode
agpgart: Putting AGP V3 device at 0000:03:00.0 into 8x mode
agpgart: Found an AGP 3.0 compliant device at 0000:00:00.0.
agpgart: Putting AGP V3 device at 0000:00:00.0 into 8x mode
agpgart: Putting AGP V3 device at 0000:03:00.0 into 8x mode
eth1: no IPv6 routers present
ip_tables: (C) 2000-2002 Netfilter core team
ip_conntrack version 2.1 (8191 buckets, 65528 max) - 248 bytes per conntrack
NET: Registered protocol family 24
eth0: no IPv6 routers present
agpgart: Found an AGP 3.0 compliant device at 0000:00:00.0.
agpgart: Putting AGP V3 device at 0000:00:00.0 into 8x mode
agpgart: Putting AGP V3 device at 0000:03:00.0 into 8x mode
agpgart: Found an AGP 3.0 compliant device at 0000:00:00.0.
agpgart: Putting AGP V3 device at 0000:00:00.0 into 8x mode
agpgart: Putting AGP V3 device at 0000:03:00.0 into 8x mode
agpgart: Found an AGP 3.0 compliant device at 0000:00:00.0.
agpgart: Putting AGP V3 device at 0000:00:00.0 into 8x mode
agpgart: Putting AGP V3 device at 0000:03:00.0 into 8x mode
agpgart: Found an AGP 3.0 compliant device at 0000:00:00.0.
agpgart: Putting AGP V3 device at 0000:00:00.0 into 8x mode
agpgart: Putting AGP V3 device at 0000:03:00.0 into 8x mode
agpgart: Found an AGP 3.0 compliant device at 0000:00:00.0.
agpgart: Putting AGP V3 device at 0000:00:00.0 into 8x mode
agpgart: Putting AGP V3 device at 0000:03:00.0 into 8x mode
agpgart: Found an AGP 3.0 compliant device at 0000:00:00.0.
agpgart: Putting AGP V3 device at 0000:00:00.0 into 8x mode
agpgart: Putting AGP V3 device at 0000:03:00.0 into 8x mode
agpgart: Found an AGP 3.0 compliant device at 0000:00:00.0.
agpgart: Putting AGP V3 device at 0000:00:00.0 into 8x mode
agpgart: Putting AGP V3 device at 0000:03:00.0 into 8x mode
agpgart: Found an AGP 3.0 compliant device at 0000:00:00.0.
agpgart: Putting AGP V3 device at 0000:00:00.0 into 8x mode
agpgart: Putting AGP V3 device at 0000:03:00.0 into 8x mode
bttv: driver version 0.9.15 loaded
bttv: using 8 buffers with 2080k (520 pages) each for capture
debian:~#

WolfCub

Obviously your card is not detected by "bttv", I will keep searching

Pete

Dah! WolfCub's card uses the SAA7146 chip not bttv chip which WolfCub said in the first post.

WolfCub, you have to make sure DVB support is included in the kernel. Make sure you select all dvb cards as modules including the ones under SAA7146. Sorry, I can not help you because dvb cards are for only uk and I do not get satellite.

I already have all that stuff in my kernel. I noticed these lines in dmesg:

dvb-ttpci: could not load firmware, file not found: dvb-ttpci-01.fw
dvb-ttpci: usually this should be in /usr/lib/hotplug/firmware
dvb-ttpci: and can be downloaded here http://www.linuxtv.org/download/dvb/firmware/

However I do not know which file to download. Also, I live in Canada and plan to receive Antenna TV with this card, is that possible?

I put all the dvb-ttpci-01.fw files in /usr/lib/hotplug/firmware and it still doesn't work.

WolfCub


This is from here http://www.linuxtv.org/download/dvb/firmware/

So as you are using a 2.6.11 Kernel should'nt you put them in /lib/firmware/dvb-ttpci-01.fw

I'm also out of my depth, just trying to help

Pete

Update: after I put the firmware files in /usr/lib/hotplug/firmware, I get this when running tvtime:

debian:~# tvtime
Running tvtime 0.9.15.
Reading configuration from /etc/tvtime/tvtime.xml
Reading configuration from /root/.tvtime/tvtime.xml
videoinput: Can't get tuner info: Invalid argument
videoinput: Can't get tuner info: Invalid argument
videoinput: Can't mute card. Post a bug report with your
videoinput: driver info to http://tvtime.net/
videoinput: Include this error: 'Invalid argument'
videoinput: Can't mute card. Post a bug report with your
videoinput: driver info to http://tvtime.net/
videoinput: Include this error: 'Invalid argument'
Thank you for using tvtime.
debian:~#

Also, every other TV viewer doesn't work either so something still isn't working right.

WolfCub

Just an observation

Are you running this as root ?

Try as normal user

Pete

Yeah I am running as root. All the TV programs fail to receive a signal though so I'm doubting that they're not working because I'm root. I'll create a non-root user and test just to be sure though...

EDIT: running as a non-root user gives a whole load of permission problems, I set this up as a desktop with only one user, me-- root. I really don't want to be bothered to fix the non-root user's problems, because I'm fairly certain that the problem doesn't relate to me being root. And please, don't give me the generic response about how it's wrong to run as root all the time

OK I give up... what's the easiest TV tuner to get to work? I'll send this beast back and go buy it. Doesn't nVidia make one? I need a really easy to use one that works with NTSC or whatever North America uses, and it's got to be good quality. Thanks.

I have a LifeView FlyVideo 3000FM. It works well. The video and sound quality is excellent. The Platinum version works with all TV broadcasts. Though it is only analog so you will need a converter box.

A post on http://www.hauppauge.co.uk/board/showthread.php?t=681 may help.
Some deeper instructions go to http://www.nr.no/~oka/linux/DVB/.

For 2.6.x kernels it said put the firmware file in /lib/firmware/dvb-ttpci-01.fw.

Ok, is there a Linux compatible card that has the converter or whatever built in so I can easily watch analog TV? I just wanna get this to work and I have no problem returning it if it wont be easy to make work.