[mythtvnz] Win-TV Nova-S card not working

Vance McIndoe vance at juniper.net
Sun Jan 10 08:15:09 GMT 2010


> Regrettably, not all cards using the same chipset actually work the
> same way.  And there are regressions sometimes - I have a Hauppauge
> HVR-900 USB tuner which worked for a while, but does not work with the
> latest kernels, as it seems something from the external drivers never
> made its way into the kernel.  Only the newer HVR-900s are affected,
> the old models work.  So you may well be up against the same sort of
> thing, where the manufacturer has substituted a new device for
> something on the card that is becoming expensive or hard to get, but
> kept the old model number so it is difficult to tell the difference.

Strange thing is, that this card was working fine.  It stopped working
on a kernel upgrade, and even when reverting to 8.10 or 8.04 (system
rebuild) I couldn't get it to go again.  I doubt it's a hardware failure
- surely it's just a matter of finding the configuration that works
(again).





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