Hi
I've been reading various things about how to get a DVB card working,
and am know quite confused as to what is actually required. I would like
to avoid having to compile a driver if at all possible (from reading
around
it seems that the 2.6 kernel should support my dvb card without any other
patches, is this right?).
Hello
At least my Nova-T worked with Fedora C1 + 2.6.1-1.37, I haven't tried it with
newer kernels.
I have installed Fedora Core1, with a 2.6.1-1.61 kernel (from the Fedora
Core2 development tree).
I did the same
Can anybody suggest what I should be 'modprobing' to get the card (&
frontend) recognised. I assumed that a modprobe of tda1004x (after the dvb
& budget bits are loaded) should be enough, but the tda1004x module isn't
found.
My card is nova-t pci, version 923.
I'm loading the modules in following order (I also have analog TV card, which
uses bttv so I have some of the modules needed loaded already):
dvb_core
saa7146
budget-core
budget
grundig_29504-401
List of other modules that are loaded too (for analog TV-card):
tuner
tvaudio
msp3400
bttv
video_buf
i2c_algo_bit
btcx_risc
i2c_core
v4l2_common
After I have loaded the modules, dmesg shows:
saa7146: register extension 'budget dvb'.
saa7146: found saa7146 @ mem e2f91000 (revision 1, irq 5) (0x13c2,0x1005).
DVB: registering new adapter (TT-Budget/WinTV-NOVA-T PCI).
TT-Budget/WinTV-NOVA-T PCI adapter 0 has MAC addr = 00:d0:5c:20:4d:8e
DVB: registering frontend 0:0 (Grundig 29504-401)..
Only thing that you need, is dvb-apps from CVS. From dvb-apps you can find
scan and tzap.
scan: you can scan your channels and create channels.conf file for other
applications
tzap: you can tune to some channel with this
In addition, you can get the dvbtools from dvbtools CVS
(http://sourceforge.net/projects/dvbtools/),
where you can get:
dvbtune: you can scan your channels and do other things that I dont know
anything
dvbstream: you can pipe your audio and video stream to file or to some player
(mplayer).
You can use mplayer or xine directly without dvbstream by defining dvb:// to
the command line (mplayer dvb:// -tv lots-of-options).
Someone should verify that these "instructions" are okay, I'm not sure about
anything...
BR
Kimmo Koivisto
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