Avermedia TV card in Kubuntu Intrepid 8.10 amd64

[James Buttery]

Hi,

This is my first post. I've recently decided to try out Kubuntu, I'm having 
problems installing a tv card. I've googled but cannot find a resolve for it. 

Heres what I've found and tried so far

The laptop is a Sony VGN-AR41M. The tv card is an Avermedia M115S.

found this when typing dmesg | less

[   28.026599] saa7133[0]: registered device video0 [v4l2]
[   28.026633] saa7133[0]: registered device vbi0
[   28.064671] r5u870-0: Microcode file "r5u870_1839.fw" is missing
[   28.064676] r5u870-0: Please see http://wiki.mediati.org/r5u870/Microcode
[   28.064679] r5u870-0: initialization failed: -2
[   28.064689] r5u870: probe of 3-2:1.0 failed with error -2
[   28.064721] usbcore: registered new interface driver r5u870
[   28.087950] saa7134 ALSA driver for DMA sound loaded
[   28.087983] saa7133[0]/alsa: saa7133[0] at 0xfc006800 irq 22 registered as 
card -2
[   29.057025] lp: driver loaded but no devices found

I believe the saa7133 entries relate to the tv card
i think the r5u870-0 errors are the webcam, which i'm going to work on next

when i type sudo lshw -C multimedia i get

  *-multimedia
       description: Audio device
       product: 82801H (ICH8 Family) HD Audio Controller
       vendor: Intel Corporation
       physical id: 1b
       bus info: pci at 0000:00:1b.0
       version: 03
       width: 64 bits
       clock: 33MHz
       capabilities: pm msi pciexpress bus_master cap_list
       configuration: driver=HDA Intel latency=0 module=snd_hda_intel
  *-multimedia
       description: Multimedia controller
       product: SAA7131/SAA7133/SAA7135 Video Broadcast Decoder
       vendor: Philips Semiconductors
       physical id: 4
       bus info: pci at 0000:08:04.0
       version: d1
       width: 32 bits
       clock: 33MHz
       capabilities: pm bus_master cap_list
       configuration: driver=saa7134 latency=64 module=saa7134

If i type lspci i get among other things

08:04.0 Multimedia controller: Philips Semiconductors SAA7131/SAA7133/SAA7135 
Video Broadcast Decoder (rev d1)

i've loaded the following modules:

    * saa7134_empress
    * saa7134_alsa
    * saa7134_dvb
    * saa7134
    * tda1004x
    * dvb_pll
    * saa6752hs
    * videodev
    * v4l2_common
    * tuner 

i couldn't get this module to load

    * video_buf_dvb

I created a file called saa7134 which contains

alias char-major-81 videodev
alias char-major-81-0 saa7134
options saa7134 card=17

and copied it to /etc/modprobe.d/

I've installed mplayer, and kaffeine. also tried klear, kplayer and tvtime.

created a UK-Tacolneston file with the following data in it:

# UK Tacolneston
# T freq bw fec_hi fec_lo mod transmission-mode guard-interval hierarchy
T 730166670 8MHz 3/4 NONE QAM16 2k 1/32 NONE


I tried scan UK-Tacolneston > channels.conf
which errored with:

scanning UK-Tacolneston
using '/dev/dvb/adapter0/frontend0' and '/dev/dvb/adapter0/demux0'
main:2247: FATAL: failed to open '/dev/dvb/adapter0/frontend0': 2 No such file 
or directory

I'm now at a complete loss as to why I cant get the card working. I think the 
driver is installed, just not working correctly... any help would be 
appreciated.

James



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