[linux-dvb] Pinnacle PCTV Sat Pro PCI DVB-S Card

[Rob Beard]

Uwe Bugla wrote:
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> Datum: Wed, 28 Feb 2007 00:19:40 +0000
> Von: Rob Beard <rob at esdelle.co.uk>
> An: linux-dvb at linuxtv.org
> CC: 
> Betreff: [linux-dvb] Pinnacle PCTV Sat Pro PCI DVB-S Card
>
>   
>> Hi folks,
>>
>> I was wondering if someone could possibly advise me with regards to a 
>> Digital Satellite card which I am trying to get working.
>>
>> The card is a Pinnacle PCTV Sat Pro PCI card.  I am running Ubuntu Edgy 
>> 6.10 with a 2.6.17-11 kernel.  Now it appears that a driver isn't loaded 
>> at startup so I guessed that this kernel at least doesn't support the
>> card.
>>
>> Now I'm not very good at coding, in fact I'm next to useless at it but I 
>> wondered if there is anything I could do to help try and get this card 
>> working?
>>
>> I'm not sure if this helps but below is the output of lspci -v for the 
>> card...
>>
>> 02:09.0 Multimedia controller: Pinnacle Systems Inc. Unknown device 0040
>>         Subsystem: Pinnacle Systems Inc. Unknown device 0048
>>         Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 3
>>         Memory at ea000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
>>         Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 2
>>
>> 02:09.2 Multimedia controller: Pinnacle Systems Inc. Unknown device 0042
>>         Subsystem: Pinnacle Systems Inc. Unknown device 0048
>>         Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 3
>>         Memory at ea001000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
>>         Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 2
>>
>>
>> More details on the card can be found at:
>>
>> http://www.pinnaclesys.com/PublicSite/uk/Products/Consumer+Products/PCTV+Tuners/PCTV+Digital+PVR+(DVB-S_DVB-T)/PCTV+Sat+Pro+PCI.htm
>>
>> If anyone could help I would be really grateful.
>>
>> Thanks in advance,
>>
>> Rob
>>
>>     
> Hi Rob,
> I fear that your card is an unsupported one.
> I am running a Pinnacle PCTVSAT PCI, and my second one is a Pinnacle PCTVPRO, which is an analog card. Both are running fine.
>
> Regards
> Uwe
>   
Thanks Uwe,

The card was actually bought by my dad for his PC which I am going to 
install Ubuntu on. I figured I'd try it in my PC first to see if it was 
detected. I think we'll return it and order a Hauppage card which 
looking at the Wiki appears to be better supported (I believe the 
Hauppage card is a Nova-S Plus PCI).

Thanks anyway for the quick response.

Regards,

Rob