[mythtv-users] mythtv-setup issue: KWorld USB ATSC TV Stick UB435-Q V3

Hika van den Hoven hikavdh at gmail.com
Fri Mar 27 03:41:03 UTC 2015


Hoi James,

Friday, March 27, 2015, 3:52:00 AM, you wrote:

> Back to the original subject of this thread, I'm still not quite sure why
> this stick is not present and selectable under mythtv-setup. I've read
> more than one testimony to the fact that it works under Linux, and I've
> not run across anyone saying they had great difficulty in getting it 
> operational. The most complex scenario I've thus far encountered was 
> actually recounted on this list 5 years ago and concerned someone needing
> to apply some kernel patches to get it operational 
> (http://lists.mythtv.org/pipermail/mythtv-users/2010-October/299140.html).
> Users of varying Linux flavors seem generally to say that it works for
> them pretty much "out of the box."

> On Wed, 25 Mar 2015, Hika van den Hoven wrote:

>> First check in your log/dmesg if you're missing firmware. I for
>> instance need sys-firmware/ivtv-firmware for my pvr500/350
>> Also sys-kernel/linux-firmware contains a lot.

> I don't see any indicators in dmesg output or in /var/log/messages that
> there is any firmware needed. Not completely sure what I'd be looking for
> there, but I've also searched this tuner's name and the word "firmware"
> using google and have found only some Windows files. So that doesn't look
> like a promising avenue to me.

> Given that I'm trying this on Gentoo, and that this distro is still quite
> new to me and requires all kinds of manual interventions that other 
> distros don't, I'm wondering whether there might not be a permissions 
> issue in play here. What I mean is that mythtv-setup is running under the
> mythtv account, and that account may not have sufficient privileges to
> query/probe device nodes: does that make any sense as a possible 
> explanation? There is, after all a /dev/dvb/adapter0 device node, but 
> either it's somehow not relevant, or mythtv-setup can't access it.

> Any other suggestions about things to try?
> _______________________________________________

You could emerge vlc or so and then check if you can access the tuner
with that? If so you know the driver is functioning.
I also saw some another firmware and utils
media-tv/linuxtv-dvb-apps and media-tv/linuxtv-dvb-firmware.


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