DVB pain

stdPikachu · Apprentice Joined: 10 Mar 2004 Posts: 254 Location: UK

Hmm, not sure if this is the right place for this, but here we go anyway.

Any tips on getting a Hauppauge Nova-T card working under 2.6? There's a million-and-one howto's for doing this under 2.4, but I was under the impression that DVB was much easier to get working under 2.6 (from 2.6.4 onwards anyway).

Where to begin? Well for one I'm not sure what modules I need to get it working (I'm guessing I need at least bttv and saa7146 budget modules). Some people have suggested I just rm -rf my current DVB modules, manually compile them with the tarbz's from linuxtv.org and then chuck them in the right dirs. Obviously this doesn't sound like too great an idea to me (and they still don't say which modules I should need), since they'll get overwritten whenever I build a new kernel.

At the moment, I'm loading a truckload of modules, but nothing is being created under the /dev/dvb tree (I'm using devfs) - do I need to mknod manually?

Again onto libdvb (dependency of mythfrontend). Has *anyone* successfully compiled this under 2.6 from portage without making hideous symlinks into the kernel tree? Or are the ebuilds just b0rked? At the moment it seems to only work with 2.4, and yet again people have said "don't even attempt DVB under 2.6, use a 2.4 kernel", which I don't want to do since this'll be my first play with 2.6 and it's meant to be *easy*, damnit! Do I even need libdvb? Again, the docs are quite scant on this.

Thanks if anyone has any info on this one!

P.S. this is all going into my monolithic Gentoo/MythTV howto (I'm trying to fit every possible customisation into it, and then release it to the world so it can be filled with more generic/less UK-ey info - dunno if it's the kinda thing the Gentoo Documentation project is interested in), so first person to come up with a clever answer gets 5000 points, a big bowl of raspberry jelly and an official credit! Umm, yes.

stdPikachu · Apprentice Joined: 10 Mar 2004 Posts: 254 Location: UK

(Bah, replying to myself again!)

OK, after alot of mucking about with modules, I've managed to get my DVB frontend registered:

mathgeek · Posted: Tue Jun 27, 2006 8:39 am Post subject:

Hi!

I am unable to tune into any channels, too. My adapter seems to be doing fine, as well as my self made aerial, since my receiver (for my TV) is working with full signal strength and very good quality. I would be surprised if my problems were due to a defective hardware since the box works under some other operating system. But the software for this system is painfully slow and not nice to use. Some time ago I used to be able to use the box under linux but unfortunately I'm unable to determine since when it does not work anymore.
Hope this can be solved! I will check the linuxtv archives again for any clues.
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