<div dir="ltr">Thanks!<br><div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 1:37 AM, Stephen Worthington <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:stephen_agent@jsw.gen.nz" target="_blank">stephen_agent@jsw.gen.nz</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="im">On Sun, 10 Mar 2013 22:20:19 +0000, you wrote:<br>
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>On Sun, Mar 10, 2013 at 10:03 PM, Igor Cicimov <<a href="mailto:icicimov@gmail.com">icicimov@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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</div><div class="im">> The only quirk/annoyance is that I have a<br>
>dvb-s card with its own manufacturer-supplied linux driver and every time<br>
>an automatic upgrade includes a new kernel (which has been at least every<br>
>couple of weeks lately) then the card stops working altogether (no tv, no<br>
>recordings, "all tuners are busy") until I manually recompile and reinstall<br>
>the damn driver.<br>
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</div>You should be able to set up the drivers to compile automatically for<br>
new kernel using DKMS. I had to do that for my ethernet drivers on my<br>
GT70 laptop and it does work, but it is a bit fiddly to set up.<br>
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<a href="https://help.ubuntu.com/community/DKMS" target="_blank">https://help.ubuntu.com/community/DKMS</a><br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>This one sounds exciting but a bit complicated and potentially hard to fix when it breaks.<br>
I wish those who package the card's driver, or those who put together the mythbuntu distribution, did all that before it reached the poor users... ;-) <br></div></div></div></div></div>