> I have been having a lot of trouble trying to make DVB-T cards > work properly with dvb tools etc. for use with mythtv.... > > I have 2 cards, for which EXACTLY THE SAME PROBLEM applies to > either (using only 1 card in machine at any time)... > > One card is an (apparently supported) V-STREAM dvb-T card > with a CX23883-19 IC... > The other card is an "LR6650" which apparnetly work according > to page:- > http://www.comp.lancs.ac.uk/computing/users/leek/ukdvb.php > > I have been using a gentoo system, and have tried various > kernel builds with no success. I have used the > bytesex.org kenrel patch to make such kernels in the > first place.... > > The kernel I have made work, and the modules loaded etc. > show that the card has been detected and the FRONTEND > has been registered okay (slightly different messages > with the 2 slightly-different-cards). > > In any case, after (I'm sure) loading all the right modules > etc... from reading various pages/information -- > I build linuxtv.org 'dvb-apps' CVS version fine and > use the "dvbscan" program on the dvb-t/uk-Mendip > frequency/channel configuration... > > This DVBSCAN usuall succeeds, occasionally failing with > a timeout, and produces a list of channels on the > MUX's available, successfully which shows me that > my DVB-T card must be working mostly. I used the output > of this scan redirected [or "tee"'ed] to create an > output channel-list file... > > I then used tzap with -c parameter pointing to my > channel-list-config-file, the channel name in > double-quotes, and some other parameter (something > like "-xa" or similar -- to setup card/driver ready > for recieving by another program... Can't remember > the exact parameters now. > This quickly gives a few lines of FE_HAS_LOCK and > exits tzap (which I thought this is supposed to > leave the dvr0 device usable when tzap is no > longer running).
I thought if you got FE_HAS LOCK then the cards is working. You just then need to configure it with MythTV. I have 2 Kworld Vstream Xprts DVB-T PCI cards and they're both working. When I cat /dev/dvb/adapter0/dvr0, I also get nothing - it seems to hang. However, as my cards are working, I would say that isn't your problem. Your post doesn't actually says what the problem is - the cards seems to be working, by the look of it. Are you having trouble configuring it in MythTV? FYI, I'm running kernel 2.6.11-1.27_FC3 on FC3 with ATRPMs. I didn't have to do any patching of the kernel. Regards, Phill _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
