[mythtv-users] Report: Kworld UB435-Q working well!

[Jarod Wilson]

On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 8:23 AM, Gavin Peters <gavin at ytz.ca> wrote:
> I just got a UB435-Q to add a third tuner to my backend (the other two are
> on my HDHR).  I bought it at NewEgg for $cheap.
> http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16815260023&Tpk=UB435-Q
>
> Firstly, the UB435-Q driver isn't found in the Ubuntu 10.04 kernel.  So I
> cherry picked from trunk these two revisions to add it:
> http://git.linuxtv.org/media_tree.git?a=commit;h=804258c95f9b782b1916eeb4fe280b119ad5b152
> http://git.linuxtv.org/media_tree.git?a=commit;h=7e48b30af033076c85ab48a8306b5588faf5fb4b
> This was easy, and I'm happy to write a shell script & howto if anyone would
> like to know how (email me off list, and I'll forward it here if there are
> requests).

Here's the howto for Fedora 13 (and later) users:

1) Plug the stick in
2) Use it

:)

There are benefits to a) being the one that wrote the patches to begin
with and b) having commit access to my distro of choice's kernel. ;)

-- 
Jarod Wilson
jarod at wilsonet.com