No video0, /dev/dvb/adapter0 present

Hello I would really appreciate some help.

I am trying to setup my TV HD tuner card and have encountered some problems.

In a nutshell:
I have /dev/dvb/adapter0
containing:
demux0 dvr0 frontend0 net0

but no /dev/video0

Some details:

Card: Leadtek DTV2000 DS Dual Tuner

Was not detected by OpenSuse 11.2
I tried building from the repo
(as described here: http://www.linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php/How_to_Obtain,_Build_and_Install_V4L-DVB_Device_Drivers)
but there were errors, so I grabbed from
http://linuxtv.org/hg/~anttip/af9015/
which was reported to work with the card

dmesg reported firmware missing, so I got dvb-usb-af9015.fw from
http://www.otit.fi/~crope/v4l-dvb/af9015/af9015_firmware_cutter/firmware_files/4.95.0/

Now it loads
(from dmesg):

[    8.436254] dvb-usb: found a 'Leadtek WinFast DTV2000DS' in warm state.
[    8.436301] dvb-usb: will pass the complete MPEG2 transport stream to the software demuxer.
[    8.436653] DVB: registering new adapter (Leadtek WinFast DTV2000DS)
[    8.644457] af9013: firmware version:4.95.0
[    8.647825] DVB: registering adapter 0 frontend 0 (Afatech AF9013 DVB-T)...
[    8.667594] tda18271 0-00c0: creating new instance
[    8.670774] TDA18271HD/C2 detected @ 0-00c0
[    8.852151] ath: EEPROM regdomain: 0x809c
[    8.852153] ath: EEPROM indicates we should expect a country code
[    8.852155] ath: doing EEPROM country->regdmn map search
[    8.852156] ath: country maps to regdmn code: 0x52
[    8.852158] ath: Country alpha2 being used: CN
[    8.852159] ath: Regpair used: 0x52
[    8.873794] dvb-usb: will pass the complete MPEG2 transport stream to the software demuxer.
[    8.874160] DVB: registering new adapter (Leadtek WinFast DTV2000DS)
[    8.928654] phy0: Selected rate control algorithm 'minstrel'
[    8.929117] cfg80211: Calling CRDA for country: CN
[    8.929293] ath5k phy0: Atheros AR2413 chip found (MAC: 0x78, PHY: 0x45)
[    9.079590] af9013: found a 'Afatech AF9013 DVB-T' in warm state.
[    9.082319] af9013: firmware version:4.95.0
[    9.094043] DVB: registering adapter 1 frontend 0 (Afatech AF9013 DVB-T)...
[    9.094211] tda18271 1-00c0: creating new instance
[    9.096393] af9015: command failed:2
[    9.098032] tda18271_read_regs: [1-00c0|M] ERROR: i2c_transfer returned: -1
[    9.098046] Unknown device detected @ 1-00c0, device not supported.
[    9.100368] af9015: command failed:2
[    9.101977] tda18271_read_regs: [1-00c0|M] ERROR: i2c_transfer returned: -1
[    9.101990] Unknown device detected @ 1-00c0, device not supported.
[    9.101995] tda18271_attach: [1-00c0|M] error -22 on line 1272
[    9.102005] tda18271 1-00c0: destroying instance
[    9.102165] input: IR-receiver inside an USB DVB receiver as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1e.0/0000:07:01.2/usb3/3-1/input/input5
[    9.102193] dvb-usb: schedule remote query interval to 150 msecs.
[    9.102196] dvb-usb: Leadtek WinFast DTV2000DS successfully initialized and connected.
[    9.245040] usbcore: registered new interface driver dvb_usb_af9015

But /dev/video0 does not exist which means none of the TV software works.

I don't know what to try next. Any help would be awesome.

Thanks,

Cliffe.

Cliffe,

Your card does not support analogue, hence there will be no /dev/videoN node created. You are most likely attempting to use analogue tv viewing applications (i.e. xawtv v3.9x, tvtime, ...). Use applications for digital tv instead (i.e. kaffiene....).

If you go back over the "How to Obtain, Build and Install V4L-DVB Device Drivers" article, you will find links to two other articles

http://www.linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php/What_is_V4L_or_DVB%3F
http://www.linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php/Device_nodes_and_character_devices

which should provide you with fuller details.

Thanks! That helped get me back on track.

MythTV doesn't scan channels correctly (I thought it was related to video0) but importing a channels.conf created using the scan program works. So now I have a working MythTV setup!

Cheers,

Cliffe.

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Hi Cliffe

Have you checked to see if there's a different report after a completely cold (power plug out) boot, compared to a warm reboot?

I'm chasing what appears to me to be a similar problem, different card, same chips (by the look of it) and I found the same report in my syslog:

Unknown device detected @ 1-00c0, device not supported.

I see you haven't had any responses here; did you get any further with this?

Symptoms in my system: got a dual tuner card (PEAK 221544AGPK PCI) which, following warm boot, doesn't see the second tuner. Suspect firmware not being loaded due to warm state. I'm documenting this at

http://www.slm.dnsdojo.net/content/tech/myth/index.php#begin_peak.html

Cheers
Steve Myatt