lspci on 12.04 not showing hauppauge PVR-150 no video devices.

Colin Law clanlaw at googlemail.com
Tue Jun 4 06:41:15 UTC 2013


On 4 June 2013 07:34, Mike McMullin <mwmcmlln at mnsi.net> wrote:
> On Tue, 2013-06-04 at 07:35 +0200, Nils Kassube wrote:
>> Mike McMullin wrote:
>> > mike at front-main:/lib/modules/3.2.0-45-generic-pae/kernel/drivers/media
>> > /video/ivtv$ sudo insmod ivtv.ko insmod: error inserting 'ivtv.ko': -1
>> > Unknown symbol in module
>>
>> Maybe some other module is needed as well. If I run the command "modinfo
>> ivtv", the output includes this line:
>>
>> depends:        videodev,v4l2-common,tveeprom,cx2341x,i2c-algo-bit
>>
>> I'm not sure if the same modules are needed for the 3.2.0 kernel - I'm
>> using the raring backports kernel (3.8.0) with my 12.04 system. Instead
>> of insmod I would suggest to use modprobe which should automatically
>> load the dependencies as well. That would be the command
>>
>> sudo modprobe ivtv
>
>   That did it:
> mike at front-main:/dev$ lsmod
> Module                  Size  Used by
> ivtv                  143913  0
> cx2341x                27739  1 ivtv
> i2c_algo_bit           13199  1 ivtv
> v4l2_common            15793  2 ivtv,cx2341x
> videodev               86588  3 ivtv,cx2341x,v4l2_common
> tveeprom               17009  1 ivtv
>
> But I still don't have anything in /dev/ for video.

I did not have to do anything special with modules when I plugged my
card in, it appeared in lspci immediately.  Then installing ivtv-utils
gave me the tools to control it.  I suspect the problem is that it is
not being recognised in the first place.

I suggest trying on the ivtv list [1].

Colin

[1] http://ivtvdriver.org/mailman/listinfo/ivtv-users




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