Hi, dvb professionals, I followed the advices on http://www.linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php/How_to_Obtain%2C_Build_and_Install_V4L-DVB_Device_Drivers#Optional_Pre-Compilation_Steps Build and Installation Instructions downloaded the v4l sources via mercurial, "make" and "sudo make install" finished without error messages. rebooted the computer dmesg shows the device: --- usb 2-1: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 6 usb 2-1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice usb 2-1: New USB device found, idVendor=0b48, idProduct=300d usb 2-1: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3 usb 2-1: Product: TT-USB2.0 usb 2-1: Manufacturer: TechnoTrend usb 2-1: SerialNumber: LHKAMG --- no error if I unplug and plug it on USB again the connected box is a TechnoTrend CT 3560 CI I googled and found chipset names like TDA8274 + TDA10023 did not find anything in wiki, so I could not determine module or driver names to be identified with lsmod. there is no created /dev/dvb or /dev/video device google did not help me answering the question "do I need firmware, and if so where to get it" uname -a shows Linux rolf9 2.6.28-7.slh.6-sidux-686 #1 SMP PREEMPT Sat Mar 14 02:30:40 UTC 2009 i686 GNU/Linux for now I got stuck. Do you know of a next step towards having tv on my laptop? Rolf -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-media" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html