Hi, I'm having trouble with the installation of my Nova-USB box. First I tested the box with the Windows SW and it worked alright. However so far I haven't managed to receive anything with the Linux drivers. On my notebook I have SuSE 9.0 with Kernel 2.4.21. Compilation of linux-dvb from cvs (2005-03-14) worked without any problems and the script 'insmod.sh start' worked without error messages. When I plug in the USB box I get several error messages from the hotplug system but the don't seem to cause any problem. From /var/log/messages I get the information that the drivers seem to recognise the USB box. <snip> Mar 18 18:12:56 mannem kernel: Linux video capture interface: v1.00 Mar 18 18:12:56 mannem kernel: saa7146: register extension 'budget dvb'. Mar 18 18:12:56 mannem kernel: saa7146: register extension 'budget_ci dvb'. Mar 18 18:12:56 mannem kernel: saa7146: register extension 'budget dvb /w video in'. Mar 18 18:12:56 mannem kernel: usb.c: registered new driver Technotrend/Hauppauge USB-Nova Mar 18 18:12:58 mannem kernel: ttusb_init_controller: dsp-version: 0.0 Mar 18 18:12:58 mannem kernel: DVB: registering new adapter (Technotrend/Hauppauge Nova-USB). Mar 18 18:12:58 mannem kernel: probe_tuner: try to attach to Technotrend/Hauppauge Nova-USB Mar 18 18:12:58 mannem kernel: stv0299.c: setup for tuner SU1278 (TSA5059 synth) Mar 18 18:12:58 mannem kernel: DVB: registering frontend 0:0 (STV0299/TSA5059/SL1935 based)... Mar 18 18:12:59 mannem kernel: usb.c: registered new driver ttusb-dec </snip> If I try to tune to a certain channel I get the following output: <snip> mannem:/usr/local/src/DVB/util/szap # ./szap -n 1 reading channels from file '/root/.szap/channels.conf' zapping to 1 'Das Erste': sat 0, frequency = 11837 MHz H, symbolrate 27500000, vpid = 0x0065, apid = 0x0066 using '/dev/dvb/adapter0/frontend0' and '/dev/dvb/adapter0/demux0' status 03 | signal d63f | snr 71f4 | ber 00000000 | unc 00000000 | status 03 | signal d5cb | snr 71c7 | ber 00000000 | unc 00000000 | status 03 | signal d4b0 | snr 71e2 | ber 00000000 | unc 00000000 | status 03 | signal d80f | snr 71f7 | ber 00000000 | unc 00000000 | </snip> The value of 'ber' sometimes shows some values other than 0000000 but I haven't figured out the conditions for that. I realised antother strange behaviour. I tested the box with two different antennas and locations. With the first antenna Windows says that the signal strength is about 30-40% (aprox. 4-6 dB), the second antenna gives a signal of 80-90% (aprox. 10-11dB). With both antennas I get a signal quality of 100% and a error free picture. Under Linux I get the same values for 'signal' and 'snr'. I tried the new firmware that's delivered with the latest windows-SW. I wrote a small program that converted the firmware into the fw header file 'dvb-ttusb-dspbootcode.h'. That hasn't changed anything either. I have checked the newsgroup archives and google for several hours/days/nights :( and haven't got a clue what to do to get that box running. Could you give me a hint where the problem could be. Thanks in advance. Bye Jo
