El Martes, 10 de Abril de 2007, Matt Doran escribió: > Hi all, > > I've been using the Nova-T 500 PCI card and I'm using the Ubuntu 2.6.20 > kernel. I and others in Melbourne, Australia have been having > reception problems on a couple of channels. The problem is not related > to signal strength/quality, but region specific. The Windows Media > Center community in Australia were also having the same reception > problems (see very long thread > <http://www.xpmediacentre.com.au/community/tuners-mce/12244-hauppage-nova-t >-500-driver-bug-20.html#post120121>). This community worked with the > Australian distributer (New Magic), who worked closely with Hauppauge to > debug/fix the problem. After a couple of months they got a fix. > > Apparently the problem was with the dib0700 chipset. So this might > affect more than just this card. Here's the quote: > > "For those interested the issue actually had nothing to do with > Hauppauge, but rather was a chipset issue which we have identified > in other tuner and set-top products. Because the issue is unique to > only small parts of Australia, many users and manufacturers write > the symptoms off as a reception problem." > > > The update hasn't been released publicly yet, but is available upon > request from New Magic (see note on this page > <http://www.newmagic.com.au/support/Hauppauge_Vista_Drivers.html>). Any > one interested can also email me off list, and I'd be happy to send it > through. The Windows instructions for installing the fix are: > > * Install the latest drivers from here: > http://www.newmagic.com.au/support/Hauppauge_Vista_Drivers.html > * Copy the updated file "hcw99bda.sys" into the > C:\windows\system32\drivers into the driver directory. > * Restart the system. > > Hopefully this is just a firmware fix, or something easy to reverse > engineer. ;) > > Anyone know if "hcw99bda.sys" contains firmware? And how to extract it? > > Let me know if there is anything I can do to help. > > Regards, > Matt Doran > Do you know the version of the beta? There are a new version of the drivers (cd-digital-34) from 2 April in http://www.hauppauge.de Do you know if this version have the changes mentioned? Thanks. Jose Alberto _______________________________________________ linux-dvb mailing list linux-dvb@xxxxxxxxxxx http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linux-dvb
