Hello! I happily used a Hauppauge Nexus-s Rev. 2.2 card for more than year, until I upgraded my Debian system from woody to unstable. After that the DVB-s board is no longer found and the xawtv screen stays blank.
First I tried the Debian package dvb-driver-source 1.0.1-6 which made my system freeze. After googling I followed the recommendation to download Linux DVB driver release 1.1.0 from http://linuxtv.org. It compiles nicely, but when loading the drivers with insmod.sh I get: Feb 9 13:08:18: Linux video capture interface: v1.00 Feb 9 13:08:19: saa7146: register extension 'budget dvb'. Feb 9 13:08:19: saa7146: register extension 'budget_ci dvb'. Feb 9 13:08:19: saa7146: register extension 'budget dvb /w video in'. Feb 9 13:08:19: usb.c: registered new driver Technotrend/Hauppauge USB-Nova Feb 9 13:08:19: usb.c: registered new driver ttusb-dec After ./insmod.sh, lsmod tells me: # lsmod Module Size Used by Tainted: P ttusb_dec 16583 0 (unused) dvb-ttusb-budget 22452 0 (unused) ttpci-eeprom 1984 0 saa7146_vv 39004 0 saa7146 11520 0 [saa7146_vv] mt312 6060 0 (unused) cx24110 7012 0 (unused) grundig_29504-491 4036 0 (unused) grundig_29504-401 5004 0 (unused) tda1004x 13680 0 (unused) ves1820 5344 0 (unused) stv0299 8716 0 (unused) alps_tdmb7 4360 0 (unused) alps_tdlb7 6360 0 (unused) ves1x93 5360 0 (unused) dvb-core 41312 0 [ttusb_dec dvb-ttusb-budget mt312 cx24110 grundig_29504-491 grundig_29504-401 tda1004x ves1820 stv0299 alps_tdmb7 alps_tdlb7 ves1x93] video-buf 11840 0 [saa7146_vv] v4l2-common 3200 0 [saa7146_vv] v4l1-compat 13512 0 [saa7146_vv] videodev 6592 0 [saa7146_vv] evdev 4672 0 (unused) nvidia 1966272 6 (autoclean) mousedev 4372 0 (unused) input 3488 0 [evdev mousedev] hid 10456 0 (unused) ... ... ... I then downloaded, compiled and tried linuxtv-dvb-apps-1.1.0: > ./szap -c channels.conf-dvbs-astra ZDF reading channels from file 'channels.conf-dvbs-astra' zapping to 2 'ZDF': sat 0, frequency = 11954 MHz H, symbolrate 27500000, vpid = 0x006e, apid = 0x0078 using '/dev/dvb/adapter0/frontend0' and '/dev/dvb/adapter0/demux0' opening frontend failed: No such device > ls -l --color=none /dev/dvb/adapter0 total 0 crw-rw---- 1 root video 250, 1 Feb 8 13:35 audio0 crw-rw---- 1 root video 250, 6 Feb 8 13:35 ca0 crw-rw---- 1 root video 250, 4 Feb 8 13:35 demux0 crw-rw---- 1 root video 250, 5 Feb 8 13:35 dvr0 crw-rw---- 1 root video 250, 3 Feb 8 13:35 frontend0 crw-rw---- 1 root video 250, 7 Feb 8 13:35 net0 crw-rw---- 1 root video 250, 8 Feb 8 13:35 osd0 crw-rw---- 1 root video 250, 0 Feb 8 13:35 video0 Here is the output when it used to work with self-compiled driver 0.9.4.20020803-3 under woody: Jan 19 18:26:42: i2c-core.o: driver VES1893 DVB demodulator registered. Jan 19 18:26:42: i2c-core.o: driver VES1820 DVB demodulator registered. Jan 19 18:26:42: i2c-core.o: driver L64781 DVB demodulator registered. Jan 19 18:26:42: init_SP8870: Jan 19 18:26:42: i2c-core.o: driver SP8870 DVB demodulator registered. Jan 19 18:26:42: i2c-core.o: driver tda8083 DVB demodulator registered. Jan 19 18:26:42: i2c-core.o: driver stv0299 DVB demodulator registered. Jan 19 18:26:42: i2c-core.o: driver i2c TV tuner driver registered. Jan 19 18:26:42: saa7146_core.o: saa7146(1): bus:2, rev:1, mem:0xf8ca4000. Jan 19 18:26:42: i2c-core.o: client [stv0299] registered to adapter [saa7146(1)](pos. 0). Jan 19 18:26:43: tuner: chip found @ 0x61 Jan 19 18:26:43: i2c-core.o: client [i2c tv tuner chip] registered to adapter [saa7146(1)](pos. 1). Jan 19 18:26:43: i2c-core.o: adapter saa7146(1) registered as adapter 0. Jan 19 18:26:45: dvb0: AV7111 - firm f0240009, rtsl b0250018, vid 71010068, app 00012301 Jan 19 18:26:46: dvb: 1 dvb(s) found! The Debian kernel 2.4.24 did not change, nor it's configuration. Kernel 2.6 is currently not an option because of LVM problems :-{ Unfortunately I cannot use the old driver any more since the v4l interface of vdr and other applications has changed. I know that the hardware configuration is ok and did not change since long. I went through all the READMEs and archives, but am completely stuck. Any help would be appreciated. Achim -- Info: To unsubscribe send a mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe linux-dvb" as subject.