pinnacle 801e help please!
I am new to Linux (somewhat) and I am running Linux mint 9. So far so good, I have replaced dreamweaver with NVU, office with open office. Outlook with evolution and so on. Everything is now perfect no looking back to windows except I just spent about 1.5 hours going through configuring mythtv only to find it doesn't think my pinnacle usb hd stick is a dvb device. So i did more research and stumbled upon all of your hard work and tried downloading the tar for my device but it wouldn't download. 2 questions 1) will this device work now 2) how do I implement all of you fixes in mint Linux 9 gnome running mythtv?
thanks for any help
Ray
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I am new to Linux (somewhat) and I am running Linux mint 9. So far so good, I have replaced dreamweaver with NVU, office with open office. Outlook with evolution and so on. Everything is now perfect no looking back to windows except I just spent about 1.5 hours going through configuring mythtv only to find it doesn't think my pinnacle usb hd stick is a dvb device. So i did more research and stumbled upon all of your hard work and tried downloading the tar for my device but it wouldn't download. 2 questions 1) will this device work now 2) how do I implement all of you fixes in mint Linux 9 gnome running mythtv?
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thanks for any help
Ray
The 801e driver only has support currently for ATSC/ClearQAM (which is why it appears as a DVB device). The driver does not have any support for analog (e.g. the analog tuner or the composite/s-video inputs).
Run "ls /dev/dvb/adapter0/frontend0" and if you see an entry then the driver loaded successfully. Also, you may need to load firmware (it's bundled by default with a number of distributions but I don't know about Mint). If you don't have it, you can get it here:
http://kernellabs.com/firmware/dib0700/
Cheers,
Devin
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Devin J. Heitmueller - Kernel Labs http://www.kernellabs.com