AVerMedia Hybrid+FM PCI

[Pete James <peter (at) wyrmberg.co.uk>]

Thanks Marc,

I'm still having trouble. dmesg doesn't have any reference to A16AR so I
assume the drivers aren't installed. I've checked that the rpm E506-FC3-
SMP-0.18-1 is installed and rpm says it is.

One of the first things the script does after installing the rpm is to
modprobe dvb-core 
I do this and then check with lsmod and it hasn't been loaded. If I use
insmod it says 'No such file or directory' I'm not sure where these are
supposed to be from. Listing the rpm from AVerMedia only shows modules
mt352 and saa713x

I've looked
in /lib/modules/2.6.12.1-1381_FC3smp/kernel/drivers/media/dvb (for this
is my kernel I am running) and sure enough dvb-core.ko is there so why
isn't it loading?

Has anyone any ideas to try? I've been using Linux(various Fedora cores)
for quite sometime now but the modules thing still confuses me.

Many thanks
Pete

On Sat, 2006-03-04 at 20:04 +0100, Marc wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Had the same problem. The install script is broken (had to install the
> rpm by hand).
> 
> If the device is properly configured upon restarting you should see
> this messages when issuing dmesg (or, in order to fileter the output)
> dmesg | grep A16AR:
> AVerMedia A16AR[0]: TS buffer size=32KB, count=128
> DVB: registering new adapter (AVerMedia A16AR[0]).
> AVerMedia A16AR[0] registered DVB adapter 0
> DVB: registering frontend 0 (Zarlink MT352 DVB-T)...
> 
> On Fedora Core 4 I encountered a problem with permissions on dvb
> devices (are not properly set). Try to run (just for testing!) xine as
> root. You can also give proper permissions to dvb devices but I
> haven't found a clean way yet. I just issue chmod a+rwx /dev/dvb/* -R
> (an ugly, ugly hack...). If somebody knows a better way please let me
> know.
> 
> That worked for me.
> 
> 
> 2006/3/4, Pete James <peter (at) wyrmberg.co.uk>:
>         I've recently fitted a AVerMedia Hybrid+FM PCI card in to my
>         Fedora 3
>         machine. I went to the AVerMedia web site, downloaded their
>         drivers and
>         attempted to install using their script.
>         
>         Selecting 'Yes' from the 'Do you want to install device
>         driver?' 
>         question the scripts exits with the error
>         
>         ./AVerMedia_Driver_Manager.sh: line 95: ((: i< : syntax error:
>         operand
>         expected (error token is " ")
>         
>         I've done some testing and it seems like a variable $DIST in
>         the script 
>         is empty. Earlier in the script DIST='cat .dist', and there is
>         no .dist
>         in the directory on my machine.
>         
>         So not wanting to be beaten I looked at what the script would
>         have done,
>         and did it myself. Everything seemed to be OK, I rebooted (was
>         this 
>         necessary? but years of Windows made it a habit).
>         
>         The card doesn't seem to work. xawtv and tvtime both don't
>         show a
>         picture, and settings don't really reflect the card that is
>         there e.g.
>         input all I get to chose is default. MythTV goes a little
>         further and 
>         says it can't initialise /dev/video0.
>         
>         Looking in /dev I have /dev/video and /dev/video0 (they are
>         aliased) I
>         also have /dev/dvb and in there adapter 0-3. In adapter0 I
>         have
>         audio0-6, ca0-6, demux0-6, dvr0-6, frontend0-6, net0-6,
>         osd0-6, sec0-6 
>         and video0-6. I.e. 7 lots of each item.
>         
>         Does anyone have any ideas what I could try to get it to work
>         please?
>         I've attached my dmesg output if that helps and this is the
>         output of
>         xawtv -hwscan
>         
>         This is xawtv-3.94, running on Linux/i686
>         (2.6.12-1.1381_FC3smp)
>         looking for available devices
>         port 270-270                            [ -xvport 270 ]
>             type : Xvideo, video overlay
>             name : video4linux
>         
>         port 271-271
>             type : Xvideo, image scaler
>             name : NV17 Video Texture
>         
>         port 272-303
>             type : Xvideo, image scaler
>             name : NV05 Video Blitter
>         
>         /dev/video0: OK                         [ -
>         device /dev/video0 ]
>             type : v4l2
>             name : UNKNOWN/GENERIC
>             flags: overlay capture
>         
>         Many thanks for your help.
>         Pete
>         
>         PS. My main goal is a MythTV setup and just using the others
>         to make 
>         sure the card and drivers are OK.
>         
>         
>         
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