Soeren Sonnenburg wrote: > On Sun, 2007-10-14 at 16:03 +0200, Oliver Endriss wrote: > > Soeren Sonnenburg wrote: > > > On Sat, 2007-10-13 at 23:52 +0200, Oliver Endriss wrote: > > > > Soeren Sonnenburg wrote: > > > > > Dear all, > > > > > [...] > > > > Did this card ever work before? > > > > > > I just purchased it, so I cannot tell whether it ever worked with linux. > > > However the guy from whom I got the card claimed that it works w/ > > > windows. > > > > Please try it with windows. Then we will know whether it is ok or not. > > The problem is that I do not easily have access to a windows machine. Is > there anything I can do to test whether it is OK without windows? > > ... > > I mean the problem is, that the frontend registers and loads the sp8870 > firmware, but I have no idea whether that is the right one or not (it > does not want the grundig frontend however)... Afaik there are only those two frontends for DVB-T FF cards. > When I scan it does not find any channel and using a channel list > obtained via a budget tt card, it still does not want to tune to any > channel there... > > Any ideas? I mean not that because the card is considered dvb-s some > potentially wrong dvb-s settings are set somewhere?! Afaics you did everything which could be done. The frontend was detected. Basically the card should work. (I assume that there are no tuning-related error messages in the log.) Next you have to find out whether the card is broken or not. >From your results I guess something is broken, but you can only be sure if you test it with the windows driver. (There is a small chance that it is a card variant which is not supported yet.) CU Oliver -- ---------------------------------------------------------------- VDR Remote Plugin 0.4.0: http://www.escape-edv.de/endriss/vdr/ ---------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ linux-dvb mailing list linux-dvb@xxxxxxxxxxx http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linux-dvb
