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I think I'm a n00b. I'm probably missing something important. I
have gotten this far:<br>
<br>
--> Have a MythTV system working for several years with a Hauppauge
WinTV-PVR-150. 6 terrestrial analog channels. No satellite.<br>
<br>
--> I am using a regular fixed arial antenna... no rotor, no LNB,
nothing like that.<br>
<br>
--> Got a <b>Hauppauge WinTV-Nova-T-500</b>, it arrived today.
Yippee!!!<br>
<br>
--> Rebuilt the kernel (2.6.24 with patches, gentoo-r4) including
modules such as:<br>
<blockquote><b>dvb_usb</b> disable_rc_polling=1<br>
<b>dvb_usb_dib0700</b> debug=15 force_lna_activation=1<br>
<b>mt2060</b><br>
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--> Found and applied a patch to the kernel to adjust the
mad-pci-bus-hogging of the Via VT6212:<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://marc.info/?l=linux-usb&m=120599996404777&w=2">http://marc.info/?l=linux-usb&m=120599996404777&w=2</a><br>
<br>
--> Found and downloaded <b>dvb-usb-dib0700-1.10.fw</b>, and placed
into /lib/firmware<br>
<br>
--> Shut down mythbackend, ran mythtv-setup. The card was noticed,
and I tried to configure it. Then it seemed to go away. dmesg showed
some kernel bad juju, tainted thing, dumping registers, that kind of
crap. Rebooted. Didn't come up. Even power cycling and unplugging
the power cord did not fix it!!! Physically removing and reinstalling
the card, though, did fix it. The card is back. Yippee!!!<br>
<br>
--> I <b>do</b> have device trees in /dev/dvb/adapter0 and
/dev/dvb/adapter1<br>
<br>
--> Tried scanning from the card in MythTV. It finds nothing.
Sometimes the signal is 0, sometimes the signal is 55%. Usually not<br>
much in between.<br>
<br>
--> gentoo emerged linuxtv-dvb-apps, to try the <b>dvbscan</b>
program. It finds nothing as well.<br>
<br>
--> Found and installed /etc/mplayer/channels.conf<br>
<br>
--> Tried mplayer -dumpstream -dumpfile tv6.ts dvb://"TV ONE"<br>
<blockquote>cinema mike # mplayer -dumpstream -dumpfile tv6.ts
dvb://"TV ONE"<br>
MPlayer dev-SVN-rUNKNOWN-4.2.3 (C) 2000-2008 MPlayer Team<br>
CPU: AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3200+ (Family: 15, Model: 47,
Stepping: 2)<br>
CPUflags: MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 1 3DNow2: 1 SSE: 1 SSE2: 1<br>
Compiled with runtime CPU detection.<br>
<br>
Playing dvb://TV ONE.<br>
dvb_tune Freq: 538000000<br>
<br>
<br>
MPlayer interrupted by signal 2 in module: open_stream<br>
<br>
<br>
MPlayer interrupted by signal 2 in module: open_stream<br>
<br>
cinema mike #<br>
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---> I checked the detailed coverage maps, and I should be WELL
covered by both Wellington and Palmerston North... maybe even too much
so (ATSC multi-path problems???)<br>
<br>
*sigh*<br>
<br>
Attached is kernel log (dmesg).<br>
<br>
-Mike<br>
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