On Thu, 2005-04-07 at 15:55 +0100, Alistair wrote: > Hello, All > > I cannot get a new Nebula Electronics DVB-T card to work. > > Reading the docs suggests that a simple modprobe dvb_bt8xx should do the > job; > but it doesn't. This is because the new Nebula Electronics DVB card (at least the PCI one which I have) contains a Zarlink MT352 frontend chip, rather than the ATI NXT6000 frontend chip. I guess they changed it because the MT352 has more features.. or perhaps it's cheaper. This is from an email sent to me from Nebula: - I should point out that the PCI card that you are about to receive is a - newer model than the one used by Florian Schirmer and thus the Linux drivers - will require updating in order to function with it. The central difference - between our old card and the new one is that we now use the Zarlink MT352 - COFDM rather than the ATI NXT6000, and thus the drivers need to be adjusted - to use the new demodulator. For this reason please do check with Florian to - see if they have already adjusted the code to cope with this change as the - Linux DVB code does already exist for the MT352 demod. - - As we didn't develop the Linux drivers ourselves we cannot offer direct - support for them and thus you will need to talk to the Linux community or - the guys over at Linuxtv.org to establish the current state of play. If we - can do anything to help specifically please let us know as we can then see - what we can do, and if you do speak to Florian then please let him know that - he can contact us directly if he wishes so we can then work to ensure our - new revision of our hardware working under Linux. So, the dvb-bt8xx driver will need a minor update to cover this card. I'm going to do it unless someone says they have already, but I will need a few pointers. I've already had a look at the code, and have made a start, but there will be some questions, I'm sure. > I think that similar questions have been asked before, but I cannot find > any answer. > Previously, I had seen favourable reports of the Nebula card, but maybe > things have > changed. It seems that Nebula are pretty good and willing to provide help in porting the driver, so good for them. Of course, they _could_ do better, by porting the code themselves, or funding the job, but they are a lot better than many electronics suppliers. Seb James -- Hypercube Systems Ltd 'Embedded Linux Solutions' 35 Walkley Crescent Road, Sheffield, S6 5BA Tel: 0845 4580277 Web: www.hypercubesystems.co.uk gpg key: http://www.hypercubesystems.co.uk/ssl/seb.gpg.asc -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part Url : http://www.linuxtv.org/pipermail/linux-dvb/attachments/20050408/fd17ed59/attachment.pgp
