Re: MythTV WAS: [Re: [gentoo-user] Are the video files there, or aren't they?]

[Stroller <stroller@stellar.eclipse.co.uk>]

On 18 Feb 2009, at 22:41, Michael Sullivan wrote:

> On Wed, 2009-02-18 at 22:15 +0000, Neil Bothwick wrote:
>> On Wed, 18 Feb 2009 15:30:31 -0600, Michael Sullivan wrote:
>>
>>> Is it there, or isn't it?  I don't know if it matters, but when I  
>>> was
>>> trying to fix the X problem, I built and booted with a new kernel:
>>
>> Did you try going back to the old kernel?
>
> I went back to the old kernel
>
> camille ~ # uname -a
> Linux camille 2.6.26-gentoo-r4 #1 SMP Sat Dec 13 17:31:25 CST 2008  
> i686
> GNU/Linux
>
>
> and the video worked, at least from /dev/v4l/video0.  This is a
> temporary solution, but now I can't get mythtv to work.  LiveTV won't
> work, and it won't show my upcoming programs.  I've verified that  
> mysql
> is running:
>
> ...
> and when I run mythbackend and frontend in a terminal, I get this:
> ...
> ERROR: no valid capture cards are defined in the database.

Is it possible that, when you booted with the new kernel & no cards  
were found they were removed from MythTV's database?

I have never used MythTV, but maybe - under the old kernel - you can  
add them back in using MythTV's setup and they'll work again?

This doesn't help why the cards are not shown under the new kernel,  
but if you are easily able to add them in then it would demonstrate  
that your hardware is OK & perhaps inspire confidence.

Stroller.