openSuSE tv card problem

[tuxrising]

okay, so ive decided to turn this older dell computer i had lying around into a media center hooked up to my tv because wiili doesnt look like its coming out any time soon...

so i put openSuSE on it and long story short i have a couple of problems for anyone able to help:

1. TV card...

i installed a few programs to watch tv on an old hauppage tv card i had and it was working for a while. somewheres along the lines of installing different packages and mythTV and stuff it totally stopped working... in case it helps heres the error messages i get when i run zapping:

Couldn't open /dev/video0, try other devices?
Sorry, but "/dev/video0" could not be opened:
The device cannot be attached to any controller

the other ones either say nothing or dont even open anymore

i tried updating the driver with YaST to no avail....

as i said it was working and somehow i broke it
so any suggestions for that would be appreciated

and then....
2. Wiimote....?

Okay whell i just straight up dont know how to do this....
I'm trying to hook up my Nintendo Wiimote through my usb dongle
I just dont know how to install it (not exactly sure how to connect with bluetooth since i havent really used it yet but im sure i could figure that part out) i downloaded WMD and libwiimote and i have to say its stumped the hell out of me. now im moderately savvy with computers and stuff, and i got it to work on windows (back when i still used it) but im still a slight n00b in linux (only about 4 or 5 months of ubuntu under my belt)

Now libwiimote i cant get to compile. ive allready compiled a few programs like mplayer on this computer so i know i have the software, but i follow the directions in the readme and it tells me to make and when i try it says there is no program to make

WMD... tried following the directions, kinda stumped me
its a bunch of python scripts that of which i have no idea what to do with

anyone knows how to work that out using either one or any other programs please inform...


So yeah... im basically trying to hook this computer up to my tv and have mythTV act as a tivo and web browser and media center and stuff and i want to use my wiimote as a mouse to do it.. its just a project ive been working on in my spare time

im sorry i digress.... if anyone has managed to make it through all that youve accomplished something i probably wouldnt be able to do...

if i havent given enough information let me know id be glad to tell you more i just didnt want to give too many details. i ramble on enough as it is

anyways

yeah thanks in advance

(gracias in epanol)

[kahoona]

To try and get your TV card to work again, try running these commands:

sudo rpm -Uhv http://jarpack.com/suse/noarch/ivtv-...1-1.noarch.rpm
sudo rmmod ivtv
sudo modprobe ivtv

I have no idea about the Wiimote. I'm still trying to find a cheap (aka "free") Bluetooth adapter for my openSUSE box.

[kahoona]

sudo rpm -Uhv http://jarpack.com/suse/noarch/ivtv-...1-1.noarch.rpm
sudo rmmod ivtv
sudo modprobe ivtv

Also, check the end of "dmesg | more" for errors and look for lines that have "ivtv" in them.

[tuxrising]

when i run either one of those commands i get "command not found"
i think i remember trying that at some point earlier
how might i fix that? i looked on YaST hoping maybe i could find it, but no luck as i figured...

also, where might i find this dmesg | more thing you speak of


yehh

thanks for the input though
i might play with it some more later

[gogalthorp]

dmesg is a command you must open a Konsole window the | character indicates a pipe so we are going to pipe the output of dmesg to a program called more more outputs to the screen one screens worth of text then waits for keyboard input then outputs the next screen etc. ctrl-c will stop it

typeing info dmesg will get you some help on the dmesg command

typeing info more will get you some help on the more command

you can also type help somecommand to get help on a command

I suppose you could have some how removed rpm. If so it would need to be reinstalled from the CD/DVD

[kahoona]

Make sure you are running the commands as root instead of your normal user ID.

At the command prompt:
su - root

... Then type those commands.

[tuxrising]

whell im still having problems...

ive been doing everything as root

and i have rpm installed

and im still stuck

and i now have mythTV installed, but its not really working either, but its not really a big deal because the tv card still doesnt work

so does anyone else have any suggestions?

[kahoona]

What do you see in your /var/log/messages file? Can you copy/paste it here? ...at least the relevant part.

[kahoona]

Also run this and paste the output here too:

dmesg | grep ivtv