TerraTec Cinergy 1400 DVB-T

I'd like to tell you the following experiences I have made with Cinergy 1400 DVB-T, which is a PCI card.

I got it working on Mandrake 10.1 with a 2.6.14 kernel configured. 2.6.12 and the standard 2.6.8 kernel did not work. I configured the kernel with make oldconfig and accepted the defaults for all the new kernel features. After booting I made a "modprobe cx88-dvb", which is the only kernel module needed. I did not manage to get it loaded from /etc/modules during boot.

With this module loaded, I had the device nodes created under /dev/dvb/adapter0. Kaffeine 0.7.1 then recognized the dvb card and presented me a configure dialog after starting, in which I was able to tell kaffeine to use a "de-Koeln-Bonn" setting (for DVB in Cologne).

In the menu "DVB" I chose "Channels" and made a "Start scan". Kaffeine finds the channels itself, so I did not need to find a channels.conf or something.

Afterwards I was able to switch channels by menu "DVB" and (great) - without doing anything else - by infrared, which comes with the card. In "Configuring Shortcuts" I was able to configure some other actions for the infrared, but kaffeine does not recognize all buttons.

Pro: - Very good and fluent picture, good sound, with kaffeine (on a 1GHz Athlon machine) - Very quick zapping with kaffeine - Timeshifting works without trouble - Recording (instantly and timed) works with kaffeine - OSD working

Contra: - I need kernel 2.6.14, which is awfully slow booting (boot time increased from 1 minute to 10) - Infrared only partly supported. I wonder if there are people out there understanding lirc... - No teletext - Antenna-Out not working