just an update for all and sundry.
I did a clean install of karmic and plugged in my leadtek gold usb tuner
purchased ~3 weeks ago
It loads 4.65 firmware and works out of the box but has the polling issue with
the remote.
I then removed and plugged into a windows pc and installed the 4.95
Thankyou so much for your help BernardB
It worked as soon as I rebooted!
I have a winfast/leadtek gold dtv dongle.
A leadtek dtv1000s
a gigabyte ga-gc230d (intel atom) motherboard
1 gig of ram (will upgrade to 2gig shortly)
500g wd sata hdd
This polling issue has been annoying me for weeks as it
in dmesg to find out what firmware was loading.
I also noticed some people suggesting to install the firmware in /lib/firmware
and others /lib/firmware/$(uname -r)/
what difference does this make?
I'd like to learn a lot more about this stuff
cheers
Rileyp
Thanks again BernardB You made my weekend
When I use firmware 4.65 the tuner works and lock on all available dvb tv
stations but I get the repeated errors in dmesg.
af9015: command failed:255
dvb-usb: error while querying for an remote control event.
When I use firmware 4.7~ and 4.95 I do not get the errors but the tuner will
not
