[mythtvnz] Pixellation Every ~ 20 minutes

[Curtis Walker]

>>> > I found that my system did not have the dvb-fe-tda10048-1.0.fw file
>>> > either.
>>> > I copied it to lib/firmware yesterday and have not had any pixellation
>>> > events since.
>>> > This bug certainly was a can of red herrings.Weird that in my case
>>> > reduction of signal improved the problem.
>>> >
>>> > Many thanks Curtis for finding the real cause of this problem.
>>>
>>> The firmware file is packaged in ubuntu in linux-firmware-nonfree. What
>>> distro are you guys on? I recall someone mentioning arch. Maybe you need to
>>> file a bug report?
>>
>>
>> I'm on Mythbuntu 11.10
>>
>> Paul
>
> Well the firmware file is packaged for you but I don't think mythbuntu
> includes linux-firmware-nonfree by default. It probably should. The clue to
> why it doesn't is probably the term "nonfree".
>
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I can hardly take credit for finding the solution - those thanks
should go to Mr. McKnight!

In my opinion, this is not so much a bug as a difficult-to-know about
*gotcha* requirement for these cards to work properly under Linux. I
hope that between this thread and my thread on the Arch Linux* forums
(https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=126229) that most people
with an HVR-22xx and a cursory google search will be up and running.

* I run Arch Linux. Amongst its selling points is a "roll your own"
philosophy - with minimal default packages and only those you want it
to (or are dependencies).