> > what shows "lspci -vvv -n -s 02:0e.0" ? > perhaps a new card revision with new hardware onboard? Are you really > sure that you got a Cinergy 1200 dvb-c? > It said Cinergy 1200 dvb-c on the box :-) lspci -vvv -n -s 02:0e.0 02:0e.0 Class 0480: 1131:7146 (rev 01) Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- Status: Cap- 66Mhz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- Latency: 64 (63750ns min, 63750ns max) Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 5 Region 0: Memory at fe000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=512] So it looks like it is indeed the card listed here : http://linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php/Supported_DVB_cards#Terratec_Cinergy_1200_DVB-C_budget.2FKNC1_DVB-C Just doing a modprobe budget-av gives me these modules : lsmod Module Size Used by budget_av 12800 0 saa7146_vv 42880 1 budget_av budget_core 6788 1 budget_av dvb_core 71336 2 budget_av,budget_core saa7146 14600 3 budget_av,saa7146_vv,budget_core ttpci_eeprom 2304 1 budget_core stv0299 10248 1 budget_av tda10021 5764 1 budget_av tda1004x 13316 1 budget_av cx8800 26124 0 cx88xx 51744 1 cx8800 ir_common 7044 1 cx88xx v4l1_compat 13188 2 saa7146_vv,cx8800 bttv 149648 0 video_buf 17156 4 saa7146_vv,cx8800,cx88xx,bttv i2c_algo_bit 8712 2 cx88xx,bttv v4l2_common 4864 3 saa7146_vv,cx8800,bttv btcx_risc 3976 3 cx8800,cx88xx,bttv tveeprom 10512 2 cx88xx,bttv videodev 7168 4 saa7146_vv,cx8800,cx88xx,bttv lirc_i2c 8196 0 i2c_core 16656 11 budget_av,budget_core,ttpci_eeprom,stv0299,tda10021,tda1004x,cx88xx,bttv,i2c_algo_bit,tveeprom,lirc_i2c lirc_dev 12516 1 lirc_i2c snd_pcm_oss 45856 0 snd_mixer_oss 15744 1 snd_pcm_oss nfsd 210656 8 ipv6 225600 12 nfs 193224 2 lockd 57608 3 nfsd,nfs sunrpc 125380 4 nfsd,nfs,lockd uhci_hcd 29584 0 ati_agp 6668 1 shpchp 91364 0 evdev 7296 0 ohci_hcd 18436 0 ehci_hcd 29704 0 snd_atiixp 15968 0 snd_ac97_codec 75772 1 snd_atiixp snd_pcm 74888 3 snd_pcm_oss,snd_atiixp,snd_ac97_codec snd_timer 19588 1 snd_pcm snd 42980 6 snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_atiixp,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm,snd_timer soundcore 6880 1 snd snd_page_alloc 8200 2 snd_atiixp,snd_pcm 3c59x 37416 0 mii 4608 1 3c59x pcmcia 30368 0 firmware_class 7424 4 budget_av,tda1004x,bttv,pcmcia yenta_socket 21516 0 rsrc_nonstatic 11136 1 yenta_socket pcmcia_core 34320 3 pcmcia,yenta_socket,rsrc_nonstatic agpgart 28616 1 ati_agp psmouse 29956 0 xfs 540952 1 exportfs 4608 2 nfsd,xfs ntfs 182672 0 dm_mod 49596 0 I've downloaded and applied this patch (http://linuxtv.org/downloads/patches/2.6.13/DVB-2.6.13.patch.bz2) to my kernel and recompiled but still: failed to open '/dev/dvb/adapter0/frontend0' Is there any char-major alias that has to be defined in modprobe.conf ? For my ivtv card (that I have now disabled while testing the DVB card) I had to do a : alias char-major-81 videodev alias char-major-81-0 ivtv Do I have to add lines like this for the 212 device? Steven