[mythtvnz] Ubuntu and getting updated v4l/dvb

[Nick Rout]

On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 4:08 PM, Steve Hodge <stevehodge at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 3:12 PM, Nick Rout <nick.rout at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I remember seeing a while ago that someone was packaging very up to date
>> versions of v4l/dvb drivers for ubuntu, with a nice repo and everything. In
>> fact I may have even posted about it myself. Now I can't remember where I
>> saw it or find the b****y post I was thinking of.
>>
>> (I have a Pinnacle 73e USB device that I read will work with the newer DVB
>> drivers. I also know that none of my machines will decode the streams, but I
>> have to start somewhere. The device was on special do I grabbed one,
>> figuring I could 'trademe' it if it doesn't work on linux).
>>
>> Help?
>>
>
> Is this what you're thinking of:
>
> http://martinpitt.wordpress.com/2008/06/10/packaged-dvb-t-drivers-for-ubuntu-804/
>
> Cheers,
> Steve
>

Was indeed! I just installed, with the device plugged in. To my amazement,
after the new v4l-dvb package was built, the kernel recognised it. No
reboot, no taking it out of the usb slot and plugging it back in, here is
dmesg:

[100334.522428] usb 3-1: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and
address 5
[100334.662256] usb 3-1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice

********** above here the output from pluggin the device in before
installing the new modules, below here generated automatically after the
LKMS had instaled the new v4l-dvb tree.


[100787.749593] dib0700: loaded with support for 7 different device-types
[100787.752050] dvb-usb: found a 'Pinnacle PCTV 73e' in cold state, will try
to load a firmware
[100791.713941] dvb-usb: downloading firmware from file
'dvb-usb-dib0700-1.10.fw'
[100791.935665] dib0700: firmware started successfully.
[100792.436028] dvb-usb: found a 'Pinnacle PCTV 73e' in warm state.
[100792.436172] dvb-usb: will pass the complete MPEG2 transport stream to
the software demuxer.
[100792.437709] DVB: registering new adapter (Pinnacle PCTV 73e)
[100792.678699] DVB: registering frontend 0 (DiBcom 7000PC)...
[100792.884908] DiB0070: successfully identified
[100792.885132] input: IR-receiver inside an USB DVB receiver as
/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:12.2/usb3/3-1/input/input9
[100792.912018] dvb-usb: schedule remote query interval to 150 msecs.
[100792.912035] dvb-usb: Pinnacle PCTV 73e successfully initialized and
connected.
[100792.912759] usbcore: registered new interface driver dvb_usb_dib0700

Even seems to have recognised the IR receiver for the tiny losedownthesofa
remote!

I applaud whoever developed LKMS, what a sweet result. I expeected to at
least unplug it and plug it back in, or even a reboot.
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