To cut to the chase, im a newbie
been playing with fedora 3 for the past week or so and have manged to suss most things out but im having a real hard time trying to get my dvb-t card up and running in linux.
PC Specs, Asus A7n8x Deluxe Rev2, Athlon XP 3200+(Barton), 1024MB PC3200ram.....
The card i have was a cheap one from e-bay but its a common chipset apaprently and ive seen reports of people getting it to work no problem.
The specs for it are
TV Tuner Thomson 7578
Video Decoder Conexant CX23881 PCI Audio/Video Broadcast Decoder
COFDM Demodulator/Decoder Conexant CX22702
The first thing i did was install a Video4Linux driver, i used an rpm from atrpm repos
kernel-module-cx88-2.6.9-1.667-0.0.4_20041005_125709-53.rhfc3.at.i686.rpm
However after doing so it would seem that probably wasnt necessary as 2.6.9 kernel already has a driver?
In Fedora Hardware manager the card is now listed twice under capture devices :/
Once as the original Conexant Winfast Tv2000 XP
and now also as Conexant: Unknown device 8802 (after installing that rpm :/ )
My next step was to try Myth TV, it doesnt seem to find the card, so i was told to try TvTime...
Loaded it up and it does seem to mention DVB, but no tuning info....
Fallen asleep yet?
Next i went to linuxtv.org and compiled the dvb apps to get scan to scan for dvb-t channels....
final hiccup,
./scan dvbscan /dvb-t/uk-Mendip
scanning dvbscan
using '/dev/dvb/adapter0/frontend0' and '/dev/dvb/adapter0/demux0'
main:1882: FATAL: failed to open '/dev/dvb/adapter0/frontend0': 2 No such file or directory
I dont seem to have a dvb dir under dev :/
Im guessing i need to run modprobe with the right string to add it?!? and then add that to /etc/modprobe ? But like i say im a newb and totally stuck now heh.
All help greatfully appreciated and will contribute to the regrowth of my hair!
