Re: "frontend driver was not found" FC5 and oldTechnotrend card

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On Wednesday 26 July 2006 11:52, Stuart Butterfield wrote:
> Hi Oliver and all,
>
> > Stuart Butterfield wrote:
> > > Hi all,
> > >
> > > I'm trying to get an old 'full-featured' Technotrend DVB-T card
>
> working on
>
> > > a
> > > recently installed Fedora Core 5 box. Looking through the archives it
> > > seems
> > > my problem might be related to one discussed in an earlier thread:
> > >
> > > http://www.linuxtv.org/pipermail/linux-dvb/2006-June/011132.html
> > >
> > > Bascially, it's not finding a frontend driver for the device. My
>
> relevant
>
> > > dmesg
> > > output is as follows:
> > >
> > > saa7146: register extension 'dvb'.
> > > saa7146: found saa7146 @ mem d0904000 (revision 1, irq 10)
> > > (0x13c2,0x0001).
> > > DVB: registering new adapter (Technotrend/Hauppauge WinTV DVB-T
>
> rev1.X).
>
> > > adapter has MAC addr = 00:d0:5c:ff:fc:6d
> > > dvb-ttpci: gpioirq unknown type=0 len=0
> > > dvb-ttpci: info @ card 0: firm f0240009, rtsl b0250018, vid 71010068,
>
> app
>
> > > 80002622
> > > dvb-ttpci: firmware @ card 0 supports CI link layer interface
> > > dvb-ttpci: Crystal audio DAC @ card 0 detected
> > > saa7146_vv: saa7146 (0): registered device video0 [v4l2]
> > > saa7146_vv: saa7146 (0): registered device vbi0 [v4l2]
> > > dvb-ttpci: A frontend driver was not found for device 1131/7146
>
> subsystem
>
> > > 13c2/0001
> > >
> > > I've tried this with the original default FC5 2.6.15 kernel and also
>
> with
>
> > > the updated
> > > FC5 2.6.17 kernel. I've also tried it with the latest HG and snapshot
>
> from
>
> > > the website,
> > > with exactly the same result.
> > >
> > > Any advice appreciated.
> >
> > Can you identify the tuner type of the card?
> > Does the card work with the windows driver?
> > Has it ever worked with a linux driver?
> >
> > Oliver
>
> I've got two of these cards, one at home, one at work. It's the work one
> that's giving me grief.
> I've just tried my home one with exactly the same linux/dvb setup and it
> works fine, correctly
> registering the frontend (LSI L64781).
>
> AFAIK the two cards are identical, but I'll try my home card in the work
> PC tomorrow. It could
> be a hardware fault on the work card.
>
> Never been tried with Windows, but both these cards have served me well,
> literally for years
> with much older versions of the Linux DVB drivers, although the work one
> hasn't been used
> for many months now, so it could be a hardware thing.

Whats the output of lspci -v -n for the non-working and the working cards? The 
older fullfeatured cards had quite scrambled PCI subsystem ids, so its likely 
the driver just needs tweaked slightly for you.

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