[ubuntu-za] Video Broadcast Controller

[Robert Holm]

On Wed, 2009-05-13 at 11:44 +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?
> 
Still wrestling with my error message "tuner-simple 0-004b: i2c i/o
error: rc == -5 (should be 4)"

I have googled extensively on this and found several instances of the
same problem, and not only with the saa7134 card, but also a few
instances with Hauppauge cards, that are known to be compatible with
V4l, which leads me to believe the problem may not be with the card.
Unfortunately, all I found were questions - but no answers.

I don't want to give up on this too easily. Does anyone have any idea
what determines rc5 and rc4, or what the letters "rc" even stand for, so
that I can delve a little deeper?

Robert