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#1 2004-12-30 15:29:47

undeadpenguin
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Registered: 2003-11-15
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ATI TV Wonder... not making device node?

I purchased an ATI TV Wonder card yesterday. I've been Googling and reading numerous tutorials and I just can't get it to work. There just isn't a device node for it in /dev... no /dev/video0, /dev/v4l/video0, not even a /dev/v4l!

So far, I've changed my /etc/modprobe.conf so that it includes:

alias char-major-89 i2c-dev
alias char-major-81 videodev
alias char-major-81-0 bttv
options bttv card=63 radio=0
options tuner debug=1
alias char-major-81-1 tvaudio

After rebooting, an lsmod showed that none of those were loaded, so I added them (bttv, tuner, tvaudio, i2c_core, and i2c_algo_bit) to /etc/rc.conf as well. Now they are loaded at boot, but there's still no device.

Then, I edited /etc/X11/xorg.conf to load v4l, but that doesn't help either. I also added:

REGISTER v4l/.* PERMISSIONS root.users 660 
 REGISTER video0 PERMISSIONS root.users 660

to /etc/devfsd.conf (and rebooted to restart devfs), but that didn't help, either.

What do I have to do to get the device to show up? It shows up in lspci (I think):

[kyle@zero ~]$ lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: nVidia Corporation: Unknown device 01e0 (rev c1)
00:00.1 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation: Unknown device 01ea (rev c1)
00:00.2 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation: Unknown device 01ee (rev c1)
00:00.3 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation: Unknown device 01ed (rev c1)
00:00.4 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation: Unknown device 01ec (rev c1)
00:00.5 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation: Unknown device 01ef (rev c1)
00:01.0 ISA bridge: nVidia Corporation: Unknown device 0060 (rev a4)
00:01.1 SMBus: nVidia Corporation: Unknown device 0064 (rev a2)
00:02.0 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation: Unknown device 0067 (rev a4)
00:02.1 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation: Unknown device 0067 (rev a4)
00:02.2 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation: Unknown device 0068 (rev a4)
00:04.0 Ethernet controller: nVidia Corporation: Unknown device 0066 (rev a1)
00:06.0 Multimedia audio controller: nVidia Corporation nForce MultiMedia audio [Via VT82C686B] (rev a1)
00:08.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation: Unknown device 006c (rev a3)
00:09.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation: Unknown device 0065 (rev a2)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation: Unknown device 01e8 (rev c1)
01:07.0 Multimedia video controller: Conexant: Unknown device 8800 (rev 05)
01:0a.0 Ethernet controller: D-Link System Inc DL10050 Sundance Ethernet (rev 12)
02:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon R250 If [Radeon 9000] (rev 01)
02:00.1 Display controller: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon R250 [Radeon 9000] (Secondary) (rev 01)

I know it's supported because it was working on Ubuntu (but after the dependency hell I went through trying to get kdetv to install I reinstalled Arch). I'm at a loss here... I have no idea what to do next. Anyone have any suggestions?

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#2 2004-12-30 20:27:07

murkus
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From: Europe/Helsinki
Registered: 2004-03-19
Posts: 254

Re: ATI TV Wonder... not making device node?

undeadpenguin wrote:

I purchased an ATI TV Wonder card yesterday. I've been Googling and reading numerous tutorials and I just can't get it to work. There just isn't a device node for it in /dev... no /dev/video0, /dev/v4l/video0, not even a /dev/v4l!

So far, I've changed my /etc/modprobe.conf so that it includes:

alias char-major-89 i2c-dev
alias char-major-81 videodev
alias char-major-81-0 bttv
options bttv card=63 radio=0
options tuner debug=1
alias char-major-81-1 tvaudio

I'm at a loss here... I have no idea what to do next. Anyone have any suggestions?

I've no idea whether this has anything to do with your problem but I noticed that in your /etc/modprobe.conf you've missed your tuner type.

you have:

options bttv card=63 radio=0
options tuner debug=1

I think you should have something like:

options bttv card=63 radio=0
options tuner=5 debug=1

(replace 5 with your tuner type code)


.murkus

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#3 2004-12-30 21:02:41

undeadpenguin
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From: CT
Registered: 2003-11-15
Posts: 43
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Re: ATI TV Wonder... not making device node?

I think you should have something like:

Code:

options bttv card=63 radio=0 
options tuner=5 debug=1

(replace 5 with your tuner type code)

Thanks for the suggestion smile

I just tried it, but unfortunately my  problem still persists. I don't have any device nodes for it in /dev... neutral

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#4 2005-01-04 04:03:19

sully748
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Registered: 2005-01-02
Posts: 10

Re: ATI TV Wonder... not making device node?

i have a ati tv card as well and am having problems w/ x so if u get it up pls psot

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