[ubuntu-za] Video Broadcast Controller

Robert Holm robhholm at lantic.net
Wed May 13 10:44:24 BST 2009


On Wed, 2009-05-13 at 10:40 +0200, Robert Holm wrote:
> On Wed, 2009-05-13 at 09:51 +0200, wayne wrote:
> > Robert Holm wrote:
> > > On Tue, 2009-05-12 at 20:54 +0200, wayne wrote:
> > 
> > > At least I know now that the saa7134 chip does work for someone, which
> > > gives me the incentive to carry on trying, Re-reading my output I notice
> > > that the tuner type 41 sets the signal type to Philips PAL_MK which I am
> > > sure is incorrect so I will have to run through the gamut of numbers one
> > > by one until I get PAL_B, which hopefully will make a difference.
> > > 
> > > TVtime-viewer looks like a very nice app.
> > > 
> > > Will report back if (when?) I am successful. In the meantime thanks to
> > > Wayne and Lee for the responses.
> > > 
> > > Robert
> > > 
OK, here's something I guess I should have seen before.
When I do a channel scan in TVtime, this message appears in syslog:
"ubuntu kernel: [  150.553113] tuner-simple 0-004b: i2c i/o error: rc ==
-5 (should be 4)".

This is, as they say, "bo my vuurmaak plek". How do I go about fixing
this?

Robert 





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