Pci Tv card, need help with, /dev/video0: No such device
 

my pci tv card is:
Intel Intercast
PBA 658391-003
FCC ID: EJMPCUD17XX

/sbin/lspci -v
2:0a.0 Multimedia video controller: Intel Corporation Intercast Video Capture Card
Subsystem: Intel Corporation Intercast Video Capture Card
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 3
Memory at e2000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256]

root@localhost ~]# dmesg | grep video
Boot video device is 0000:01:00.0
Linux video capture interface: v1.00
[root@localhost ~]# lsmod | grep bt
bttv 176181 0
video_buf 26181 1 bttv
ir_common 27333 1 bttv
compat_ioctl32 1601 1 bttv
i2c_algo_bit 8905 1 bttv
v4l2_common 15553 2 tuner,bttv
btcx_risc 5193 1 bttv
tveeprom 14673 1 bttv
videodev 9537 1 bttv
i2c_core 22209 7 tuner,bttv,i2c_algo_bit,tveeprom,i2c_dev,nvidia,i2 c_nforce2
[root@localhost ~]# ls -ald /dev/video*
ls: /dev/video*: No such file or directory
[root@localhost ~]# ls -ald /dev/video
ls: /dev/video: No such file or directory
[root@localhost ~]# ls -ald /dev/video0
ls: /dev/video0: No such file or directory
[root@localhost ~]# dmesg | tail -n 10
device eth0 left promiscuous mode
audit(1160466499.489:84): dev=eth0 prom=0 old_prom=256 auid=4294967295
bridge-eth0: disabled promiscuous mode
/dev/vmmon[14959]: host clock rate change request 83 -> 0
vmmon: Had to deallocate locked 107900 pages from vm driver f43c1000
vmmon: Had to deallocate AWE 5377 pages from vm driver f43c1000
application firefox-bin uses obsolete OSS audio interface
Linux video capture interface: v1.00
bttv: driver version 0.9.16 loaded
bttv: using 8 buffers with 2080k (520 pages) each for capture

[root@localhost ~]# dmesg | grep v4l
[root@localhost ~]#

mplayer tv:// 3
MPlayer dev-SVN-rUNKNOWN-4.1.1 (C) 2000-2006 MPlayer Team
CPU: AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3400+ (Family: 15, Model: 44, Stepping: 0)
CPUflags: MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 1 3DNow2: 1 SSE: 1 SSE2: 1
Compiled with runtime CPU detection.
Opening joystick device /dev/input/js0
Can't open joystick device /dev/input/js0: No such file or directory
Can't init input joystick
Setting up LIRC support...

Playing tv://.
Selected driver: dummy
name: NULL-TV
author: alex
Selected input hasn't got a tuner!
No vidix driver name provided, probing available ones (-v option for details)!
[nvidia_vid] Found chip: NV11 [GeForce2 MX]
[nvidia_vid] arch 10 register base 0xb707f000
[nvidia_vid] detected memory size 32 MB
[nvidia_vid] MTRR set up
[nvidia_vid] video mode: 1024x768@15
[VO_SUB_VIDIX] Description: NVIDIA RIVA OVERLAY DRIVER.
[VO_SUB_VIDIX] Author: Sascha Sommer <saschasommer@freenet.de>.
================================================== ========================
Opening video decoder: [raw] RAW Uncompressed Video
VDec: vo config request - 320 x 200 (preferred colorspace: Planar YV12)
Could not find matching colorspace - retrying with -vf scale...
Opening video filter: [scale]
VDec: using Planar YV12 as output csp (no 0)
Movie-Aspect is undefined - no prescaling applied.
SwScaler: reducing / aligning filtersize 1 -> 4
SwScaler: reducing / aligning filtersize 1 -> 4
SwScaler: reducing / aligning filtersize 1 -> 1
SwScaler: reducing / aligning filtersize 5 -> 4

SwScaler: BICUBIC scaler, from 0x32315659 (21VY) to 0x32595559 (2YUY) using MMX2
SwScaler: using 4-tap MMX scaler for horizontal luminance scaling
SwScaler: using 4-tap MMX scaler for horizontal chrominance scaling
SwScaler: using n-tap MMX scaler for vertical scaling (BGR)
SwScaler: 320x200 -> 320x200
VO: [xvidix] 320x200 => 320x200 Packed YUY2
[nvidia_vid] set colorkey 0xff00
called vixConfigPlayback
[nvidia_vid] setting up a 320x200-352x284 video window (src 320x200), format 0x32595559
Selected video codec: [rawyv12] vfm: raw (RAW YV12)
================================================== ========================
Audio: no sound
Starting playback...
X connection to :0.0 broken (explicit kill or server shutdown).


both mplayer and tvtime tell me this:

videoinput: Cannot open capture device /dev/video0: No such device

any sugestions on what to try to make this work?
thanks

Hey, slow down! You are jumping the gun here!

First, you have to get your TV card recognized.

Let me say that I have absolutely no knowledge about your particular card, so what follows is general advice.

Most TV cards use a BTxxx chip which is recocognised by the bttv kernel module. But you have to pass parameters to this module.
Each card is assigned an identification number. Then each tuner has a type number. The card also has a phase locked loop (pll) which is programmable. Finally some cards also have a radio tuner.

On older systems you could enter this command:

modprobe bttv card=37 tuner=5 pll=1 radio=0

On newer systems, this doesn't always work, so you have to enter this line, with the word "options" instead of modprobe in one of the configuration files of /etc/modules.conf or make a new file named "bttv" in /etc/modprobe.d with this single line in it.
The above command line sometimes works if you are in the same directory as bttv.ko, which is normally /lib/modules/<version>/kernel/drivers/media/video/

NOTE: these numbers are for a "pixelview" TV card and WILL NOT WORK with your card!
You will have to do a lot of Googling to find the correct numbers for your card.

When you have everything correct, your TV card will be clearly visible and even named in the startup kernel messages. Dmesg or "cat /var/log/messages" will show it.

Dont waste time with anything else until this shows correctly. Afterwards, you can set up tvtime, which works for me! I have never had mplayer working sucessfully on TV.