Nico Sabbi wrote:
On Thursday 27 March 2008 10:13:09 Eamonn Sullivan wrote:
Hi, I'm a long-time linux user (since the early 1990s, pre-1.0),
but absolutely brand spanking new to mythtv and digital TV cards. I
have a new PC set up with the latest mythbuntu (beta 8.04, due out
in a few weeks). I've been trying to get a Nova-T 500 to work
reliably without much luck. The card (as noted now on the wiki --
unfortunately not when I bought it) has serious problems with the
new Linux kernel. I can't get it to work for more than a few hours
at a time, and the remote is even worse. I'm in London, with a
strong signal (and a booster too), so I don't think that's the
problem. The PC connected to the main TV is a backend/frontend, so
periodically restarting the backend doesn't fix the remote control
problem (you have to log out and log back in again, which is too
painful for what should be as simple to use for the wife and kids
as sky+...)
I've pulled the latest driver sources, followed all the
instructions on the various wiki pages, have the latest firmware,
etc., but I'm ready to give up. I'm going to try an MCE remote,
which by all reports seems well supported in Linux, and I'm ready
to try a new DVB card(s). Dual-tuner is preferred, but I can also
just install two.
Can anyone recommend a DVB card that they know works reliably with
hardy heron (ubuntu 8.04) and/or the 2.6.24 kernel, something
that's available now down at PC World or on amazon.co.uk?
Thanks much in advance.
-Eamonn
technisat airstar2 pci is perfect. It has a single (and dvb only)
tuner with a coaxial pass-through
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Hello ,
I think the problem here might be more related to kernel 2.6.24 than
the card it self . There is a thread running already here called
something like Mysterious Behaviours all about kernel 2.6.24 . I my
self was running it for a couple of days . And had many stability
issues with mythtv . The backend would die suddenly after running for
30 to 40 mins , sometimes 1 hour . When trying to start it again it
would keep crashing with error "could not bind to port" . The only way
I could restart the backend would be to restart the whole PC . Finally
I gave up and reverted to kernel 2.6.23 and this is where I am now .
All working ok again . And have not had a mythbackend or frontend crash
since .
\Milorad
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