hi robert, thanks for your reply. Robert Schlabbach wrote: > Did you put a firmware file for the TDA10046 in place? AFAIK the tuner on > this board doesn't include an EEPROM for the TDA10046 DSP firmware, so it > has to be loaded from the driver. i have the following files in /usr/lib/hotplug/firmware. according to /etc/hotplug/firmware.agent that location seems to be okay. sporkin:/etc/vdr/recording-hooks# ls -ll /usr/lib/hotplug/firmware/ insgesamt 308 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 24479 2005-03-07 14:59 dvb-fe-tda10046.fw -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 286720 2005-03-07 16:35 tda1004x.bin sporkin:/etc/vdr/recording-hooks# i extracted the tda10046-firmware by using get_dvb_firmware (perl get_dvd_firmware tda10046) any ideas? best regards karsten