lifeview trio pci and getting dvb-s working

hi,

first of all, i'm sorry if this has been asked like a million time, but i've googled and read a lot for days and i can't get it working.

the thing is .... i'm an ubuntu user. I've tried with mythtv, vdr and kaffeine, and i only get kaffeine working with dvb-t.

The one i've tried the most is vdr + xine, i've got this installed:

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ii libdvdread3 0.9.7-3ubuntu1
library for reading DVDs
ii libxine-xvdr 1.0.0~rc2-3
Xine input plugin for vdr-plugin-xineliboutp
ii vdr 1.4.7-1
Video Disk Recorder for DVB cards
ii vdr-dev 1.4.7-1
Video Disk Recorder for DVB cards
ii vdr-plugin-epgsearch 0.9.22-1
VDR plugin that provides extensive EPG searc
ii vdr-plugin-osdteletext 0.5.1-24
Teletext plugin for VDR
ii vdr-plugin-remote 0.3.9-4
VDR Plugin to support the built-in remote co
ii vdr-plugin-xineliboutput 1.0.0~rc2-3
VDR plugin for Xine based sofdevice frontend
ii xineliboutput-sxfe 1.0.0~rc2-3
Remote X-Server frontend for vdr-plugin-xine

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i usually install everything from the apt-get repositories.

I've read about patches allowing lifeview to work, but they were very old and this is a brand new installation, with kernel 2.6.22-14 and i though that this may not be necessary.

so... after realising that apt-get doesn't allow me to use dvb-s, what do you suggest?

do i have to install everything from sourcecode? do i have to apply all those patches you talk about in this list and other forums? What's the best application for my card? kaffeine? vdr?

Thanks.

Hi,

Am Freitag, den 14.03.2008, 17:45 +0100 schrieb Jordi Moles Blanco:

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hi,

first of all, i'm sorry if this has been asked like a million time, but i've googled and read a lot for days and i can't get it working.

no problem, you are only the second asking this within the last years.

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the thing is .... i'm an ubuntu user. I've tried with mythtv, vdr and kaffeine, and i only get kaffeine working with dvb-t.

The one i've tried the most is vdr + xine, i've got this installed:

**********
ii libdvdread3 0.9.7-3ubuntu1
library for reading DVDs
ii libxine-xvdr 1.0.0~rc2-3
Xine input plugin for vdr-plugin-xineliboutp
ii vdr 1.4.7-1
Video Disk Recorder for DVB cards
ii vdr-dev 1.4.7-1
Video Disk Recorder for DVB cards
ii vdr-plugin-epgsearch 0.9.22-1
VDR plugin that provides extensive EPG searc
ii vdr-plugin-osdteletext 0.5.1-24
Teletext plugin for VDR
ii vdr-plugin-remote 0.3.9-4
VDR Plugin to support the built-in remote co
ii vdr-plugin-xineliboutput 1.0.0~rc2-3
VDR plugin for Xine based sofdevice frontend
ii xineliboutput-sxfe 1.0.0~rc2-3
Remote X-Server frontend for vdr-plugin-xine

**********

i usually install everything from the apt-get repositories.

I've read about patches allowing lifeview to work, but they were very old and this is a brand new installation, with kernel 2.6.22-14 and i though that this may not be necessary.

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so... after realising that apt-get doesn't allow me to use dvb-s, what do you suggest?

do i have to install everything from sourcecode? do i have to apply all those patches you talk about in this list and other forums? What's the best application for my card? kaffeine? vdr?

Thanks.

You need either the current v4l-dvb master repo or Hartmut Hackmann's v4l-dvb repo installed. A current 2.6.25-rc should work as well.

After "make" take care with "make rmmod" and "make rminstall", that really all old media modules are removed, before doing "make install".

You need to load saa7134-dvb with "use_frontend=1" or better put "options saa7134-dvb use_frontend=1 debug=3" in /etc/modprobe.conf or on Ubuntu it should be modprobe.d and "depmod -a".

After "modprobe saa7134" you should see that a DVB-S frontend is attached.

Then start kaffeine, it will pick up the frontend and you select in DVB settings your LNB type and the satellite to use. You should then be able to start a channel scan. For more complex sat systems with switches and rotors and advanced diseqc we have no test reports yet.

Good Luck,
Hermann