On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 12:35 PM, Rob Beard <rob@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi folks, > > I've borrowed a WinTV HVR-900 USB stick from a friend of mine to see if I > can get any reception in my area before forking out for one however I've run > in to a couple of problems and wondered if anyone had used one of these > sticks? > > The device appears to support both analogue and DVB-T (Freeview) TV however > when I plug the device in it only appears to enable the analogue side of > things (it comes up as /dev/video1 as I have a webcam on my laptop). > > I've downloaded and installed the firmware in /lib/firmware as per the > instructions on the LinuxDVB web site > and it appears to pick it up and I've even tried compiling the v4l-dvb > drivers too which didn't appear to make any difference. > > Just to check it wasn't me going mad, I tried the dvb-utils scan utility and > also Kaffene, both of which doesn't work (and I can't find a /dev/dvb > directory either). > > If it helps, the output from /var/log/messages is here: > http://pastebin.com/m34f1048f > > I just wondered if anyone else had one of these sticks actually working > under Ubuntu 9.10? (I'm running kernel 2.6.31-16-generic-pae). The DVB-T portion of that particular board is unsupported (I have some code in the works but there are issues with the firmware redistribution rights). Cheers, Devin -- Devin J. Heitmueller - Kernel Labs http://www.kernellabs.com -- 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
