[mythtv-users] Setting up a DVB Card

Nigel Metheringham Nigel.Metheringham at dev.intechnology.co.uk
Tue May 3 09:36:38 UTC 2005


On Tue, 2005-05-03 at 19:18 +1000, Andrew Herron wrote:
> The biggest thing in Jarod's guide that was wrong for me was the
> kernel choice.  I spent at least a day bashing my head against the
> wall to work this stuff out, so here goes:
> 
> 1) Instead of the _FC3 version listed in that guide, use the
> "rhfc3.at" version.  This currently means sticking to 2.6.10 - in step
> 6 use this command:
> apt-get install kernel=2.6.10-1.770_14.rhfc3.at
> 
> The reason for this is that _FC3 doesn't include the cx88-dvb module,
> apparently the Fedora Core guys don't think it's fully stable yet. 
> However, even after installing the correct package you will find that
> cx88-blackbird loads instead of cx88-dvb; this is because the
> "kmodule" command still returns the wrong thing.

Actually what I use is the FC3/update kernel (2.6.11-1.14_FC3) with the
following additional packages:-
      * bttv-kmdl-2.6.11-1.14_FC3
      * video4linux-kmdl-2.6.11-1.14_FC3
      * ivtv-kmdl-2.6.11-1.14_FC3
      * saa7134-kmdl-2.6.11-1.14_FC3
      * cx88-kmdl-2.6.11-1.14_FC3

You may not need the ivtv (I have a Hauppauge PVR-350 in the box as
well), but I think all the others are necessary.

> I couldn't find any way to stop it doing that that so I ended up
> hacking rc.sysinit (not recommended).

I didn't need any loading hacks for this card (I do for the ivtv ones).

[snip]

> 5) Tuning the channels into MythTV is all kinds of fun.  I ended up
> using the mythtvsetup channel editor to enter 5 sets of frequency
> information (everything you wrote down in step 4) for each of the 5
> stations available to me, each of which located 3-5 channels.  The
> scan can take anywhere up to 30 seconds per frequency set.

This basically just worked for me entering only the base frequency of
the DVB mux - which I got from the BBC website or the DVB tools config
files (one per transmitter set).

> If you manage to get it working without going insane consider yourself lucky  :)

Can't vouch for the sanity in this case.

I also didn't use the K-World remote and driver - the remote is horrid
anyway so getting it working seems pointless.

	Nigel.

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