On Wed, 15 Nov 2006, andrea venturi wrote: > Graham Leggett wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > I have been searching for a USB2 DVB-S receiver that is capable of receiving > > a full transport stream, with working Linux drivers. > > > > The last time I looked, the only USB capable receivers out there were v1.1, > > and incapable of receiving a full TS as a result. > > > > Are there any devices out there that are known to work? > > > > actually there is at least this pinnaclesys pctv400e: > > http://www.pinnaclesys.com/PublicSite/uk/Products/Consumer+Products/PCTV+Tuners/PCTV+Digital+PVR+%28DVB-S_DVB-T%29/PCTV+400e.htm > > i see now that is called a "legacy product" because it's superseeded by > another device DVB-S2 compliant (and on linux DVB-S2 is still a WIP) > > i own the pctv400e > > it is composed by a bunch of well known chips, so Patrick Boettcher made the > first tentative of a driver: > > http://www.mail-archive.com/linux-dvb@xxxxxxxxxxx/msg20124.html > > and i tried to run it just one time with an oops.. > i never had the time to work on it, because i've quite a busy schedule, these > days, anyway i'd like to make a second trial on a fresh 2.6.18 kernel and > without the nvidia binary module that is tainting my PC! > > i hope to post you about this, in the next days.. I'm using the device since 4 weeks (or longer) it works perfectly. The Oops you describe is related to sensitivity of the tuner/demod regarding its input parameter. When you pass wrong data it gets a division by zero or something. I was not able to find the line... Patrick. -- Mail: patrick.boettcher@xxxxxxx WWW: http://www.wi-bw.tfh-wildau.de/~pboettch/ _______________________________________________ linux-dvb mailing list linux-dvb@xxxxxxxxxxx http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linux-dvb
