[mythtv-users] Anyone with Lucid and Nova-T 500's ?

[Richard Morton]

On 22 April 2010 17:38, Yves de Brauer <ydebx2 at free.fr> wrote:
> Steve Curtis a écrit :
>>
>> Is anyone running Nova-T 500's on Lucid ?  Since installing 10.04 my
>> Nova-T cards are detected but I can't scan any channels Mythtv/scan.  I'm
>> thinking this is because the onboard amplifer is not turned on.  So I added;
>>
>> options dvb-usb-dib0700 force_lna_activation=1
>>
>> to a /etc/modprobe.d/dvb.conf file
>>
>> No luck.. still no channels detected on numerous scans whereas an old HD
>> with 8.10 is working fine :-(  Just wondered if anyone else is running the
>> above?
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Steve.
>>
> Hello,
>
> Just to say a "Me too"
>
> I have a Nova-T 500 Dual DVB-T card that used to work very well under
> Mandriva 2008.1 (kernel 2.6.24.7).
>
> I moved to Mandriva 2009.1, then 2010.0 (kernel 2.6.31.6) and it doesn't
> work well any more. Scan can't find channels.
> I tried hading "options dvb-usb-dib0700 force_lna_activation=1" in
> /etc/modprobe.conf. It improve just a bit. Scan find only a few channels (in
> fact few some multiplex work other don't).
> If I revert to Mandriva 2008.1 (in another partition), all things are
> good (without adding anything in modprobe.conf).
> I use also 3 Nova-T PCI cards without  problem.
>
> I even tried to get a cable directly from the antenna (before the
> splitter) to get a stronger signal without success.
>
> If I import channel and multiplex from the running machine with the 3 Nova-t
> and try to tune on the problematic channels, I get a partial lock.
>
> I don't know what else to do. I desperately need help.
>
> Yves
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thanks for the warning; am on Karmic with 0.22fixes and was thinking
of upgrading to Lucid with 0.23; I will avoid Lucid until we have a
fix; I will still upgrade shortly to 0.23-fixes.
R