After some further digging it appears I do get some error messages appearing in the syslog, for example: Mar 23 08:25:30 MythTv kernel: usb.c: registered new driver cinergyT2 Mar 23 08:25:30 MythTv kernel: DVB: registering new adapter (TerraTec/qanu USB2.0 Highspeed DVB-T Receiver). Mar 23 08:25:34 MythTv kernel: got key (type 16, value 0x08000b62 Mar 23 08:25:34 MythTv kernel: got key (type -128, value 0x8dda0040 Mar 23 08:25:34 MythTv kernel: got key (type -89, value 0x00000000 Mar 23 08:25:34 MythTv kernel: got key (type 0, value 0x00000000 Mar 23 08:25:34 MythTv kernel: got key (type 0, value 0x00ff0000 Mar 23 08:25:34 MythTv kernel: got key (type 16, value 0x08000b62 Mar 23 08:25:34 MythTv kernel: got key (type -128, value 0xfddb0040 Mar 23 08:25:34 MythTv kernel: got key (type -91, value 0x00000000 Mar 23 08:25:34 MythTv kernel: got key (type 0, value 0x00000000 Mar 23 08:25:34 MythTv kernel: got key (type 0, value 0x00ff0000 Mar 23 08:25:34 MythTv kernel: got key (type 16, value 0x08000b62 Mar 23 08:25:34 MythTv kernel: got key (type -128, value 0x0ddc0040 Mar 23 08:25:34 MythTv kernel: got key (type -89, value 0x00000000 Mar 23 08:25:34 MythTv kernel: got key (type 0, value 0x00000000 Mar 23 08:25:34 MythTv kernel: got key (type 0, value 0x00ff0000 Mar 23 08:25:35 MythTv kernel: got key (type 16, value 0x08000b62 Mar 23 08:25:35 MythTv kernel: got key (type -128, value 0x1ddc0040 .... As a point of information i'm using kernel 2.4.25 (from an old knoppmyth installation) with CVS dvb drivers from 11/3/05. Steve