On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 11:48 AM, Michael Krufky <mkrufky@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 11:10 AM, Bonne Eggleston > <b.eggleston@xxxxxxxxx>wrote: >> >>> Hi all, >>> I have a working Dvico Dual Digital 4 rev1 using some older drivers >>> (from http://linuxtv.org/hg/~pascoe/xc-test/<http://linuxtv.org/hg/%7Epascoe/xc-test/> >>> ). >>> I'm looking to upgrade my kernel from 2.6.18 to 2.6.25 or 26 and >>> thought I should get the most up to date dvb driver too. >>> What's the current recommended driver and firmware for this card? >>> >>> > > Damien Morrissey wrote: >> Be warned that there seems to be a funky thing with the firmware (in >> australia at least). I needed no less than three different firmware files to >> get my DVico Dual Digital 4 (rev1) to be recognised AND to successfully lock >> on a channel. Check for dmesg warnings. I am using mythbuntu 8.04. >> > > Please be advised that the posting policy on this mailing list is to > post your reply BELOW the quote. > > It's irritating that I have to tell this to people repeatedly, and I'm > sure its even more irritating for others that have to constantly read my > complaints about it. > > Nothing against you -- please don't top-post in the future. > > Anyway, Damien.... Please try the latest driver in the v4l-dvb master > branch -- recent changesets have improved driver performance, and you > should not have the problems anymore that you have described, above. So that's the mercurial repository here: http://linuxtv.org/hg/v4l-dvb ? > > The AU-specific firmware images have been deprecated, in favor of a much > better driver that works regardless of location. Standard firmware is > not used, instead. Do you mean standard firmware *is* used instead? Where do I get the standard firmware from? Is it just the dvb-usb-bluebird-01.fw from http://www.linuxtv.org/downloads/firmware/ ? _______________________________________________ linux-dvb mailing list linux-dvb@xxxxxxxxxxx http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linux-dvb
