[mythtvnz] Tuning FreeView - can't lock transponder and FRONTEND DEVICE busy?

[Steven Ellis]

On Tue, August 7, 2007 6:47 pm, Bob wrote:
> Hi.
>
> I'm trying to tune a Hauppauge Nova S Plus into the FreeView channels,
> attempting to follow the instructions at
> http://www.wlug.org.nz/FreeViewMythTvSetup.
>
> Depending upon which transponder I try to tune with dvbtune I either ge=
t
> no
> lock or get a lock but a FRONTEND DEVICE error

Ok do you know the type of LNB on your dish, and in particular the LNB LO=
..
There is a chance you need to tweak the dvbtune command to suit your LNB

Steve


> The TVNZ transponder:
>
> # dvbtune -f 1183000 -s 22500 -p h -m
> Using DVB card "Conexant CX24123/CX24109"
> tuning DVB-S to L-Band:0, Pol:H Srate=3D22500000, 22kHz=3Doff
> ERROR setting tone
> : Invalid argument
> polling....
> Getting frontend event
> FE_STATUS:
> polling....
> Getting frontend event
> FE_STATUS: FE_HAS_SIGNAL
> polling....
> polling....
>
> then it continues polling.
>
>
> On the TV3 transponder (or a SKY one for that matter)
>
> # dvbtune -f 1156000 -s 22500 -p h -m
> Using DVB card "Conexant CX24123/CX24109"
> tuning DVB-S to L-Band:0, Pol:H Srate=3D22500000, 22kHz=3Doff
> ERROR setting tone
> : Invalid argument
> polling....
> Getting frontend event
> FE_STATUS: FE_HAS_SIGNAL
> polling....
> Getting frontend event
> FE_STATUS:
> polling....
> Getting frontend event
> FE_STATUS: FE_HAS_SIGNAL
> polling....
> Getting frontend event
> FE_STATUS: FE_HAS_SIGNAL FE_HAS_LOCK FE_HAS_CARRIER FE_HAS_VITERBI
> FE_HAS_SYNC
> Event:  Frequency: 11756000
>         SymbolRate: 22500000
>         FEC_inner:  3
>
> Bit error rate: 0
> Signal strength: 62208
> SNR: 62495
> FE_STATUS: FE_HAS_SIGNAL FE_HAS_LOCK FE_HAS_CARRIER FE_HAS_VITERBI
> FE_HAS_SYNC
> frontend: 8FRONTEND DEVICE: : Device or resource busy
>
> Myth certainly isn't running and I have the following modules loaded (I
> get
> the same problem immediately after I modprobe them):
>
> # lsmod
> Module                  Size  Used by
> cx88_dvb               15684  0
> cx88_vp3054_i2c         5312  1 cx88_dvb
> cx8802                 16708  1 cx88_dvb
> cx88xx                 66724  2 cx88_dvb,cx8802
> isl6421                 2432  1
> cx24123                13320  1
> dvb_pll                13508  1 cx88_dvb
> video_buf_dvb           5636  1 cx88_dvb
> dvb_core               82352  1 video_buf_dvb
> it87                   22352  0
> hwmon_vid               3712  1 it87
> i2c_isa                 5312  1 it87
> usbhid                 24480  0
> snd_pcm                81160  0
> snd_timer              22088  1 snd_pcm
> snd                    56936  2 snd_pcm,snd_timer
> snd_page_alloc          8528  1 snd_pcm
> ir_common              32452  1 cx88xx
> i2c_algo_bit            7880  2 cx88_vp3054_i2c,cx88xx
> video_buf              23172  4 cx88_dvb,cx8802,cx88xx,video_buf_dvb
> tveeprom               16976  1 cx88xx
> videodev               26944  1 cx88xx
> v4l1_compat            13316  1 videodev
> compat_ioctl32          9408  0
> v4l2_common            18048  3 cx88xx,videodev,compat_ioctl32
> btcx_risc               4744  2 cx8802,cx88xx
> nvidia               8104376  0
> ohci1394               33160  0
> ohci_hcd               20932  0
> ehci_hcd               31244  0
> usbcore               130544  4 usbhid,ohci_hcd,ehci_hcd
> evdev                  10048  0
> sg                     24672  0
>
>
> Does anybody have any advice on what might be going wrong?  Any more
> information I can provide?
>
>
> Thanks very much
> Bob
>
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