<div dir="auto">Read this, check firmware is present<div dir="auto"><br><a href="https://www.linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php/PCTV_Systems_tripleStick_T2_(292e)">https://www.linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php/PCTV_Systems_tripleStick_T2_(292e)</a></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">I have both 290e and 292e working fine.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><br><div data-smartmail="gmail_signature" dir="auto">Please excuse brevity and pistakes as this email was composed on a phone.<br><br>Best regards,<br>Richard<br><br></div></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 20 Apr 2017 1:56 pm, "Damian" <<a href="mailto:myth@surr.co.uk">myth@surr.co.uk</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">On 20/04/2017 13:14, Simon Hobson wrote:<br>
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I wrote:<br>
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Yes, you'll need firmware. In effect (as a simplification), the device is a small computer in it's own right, and needs to be loaded with software before it will work. Because the firmware is proprietary, it can't be included with "free" OSs* - so you have to go and get the file yourself.<br>
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* Depending on policies etc (particularly on the part of the device vendor), it may or may not be available in a "non free" section of the OS software repository. Typically the user must manually enable use of the non free section if they need stuff from it.<br>
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In some cases, the firmware file may need to be ripped out of an installer package downloaded from the vendor's site. Some are really restrictive about things, and only provide a Windows installer - so you have to download that, unpack it, and extract the firmware file contained in it. Once you have that, the driver on your free OS can use it.<br>
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Thanks Simon,<br>
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That makes things clearer.<br>
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I'm not sure what to do about it :-) But the issue is clearer.<br>
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Thanks,<br>
Damian<br>
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