On Sat, 2008-09-06 at 17:20 +1000, Simon Ives wrote: > No need to worry about my previous question. I changed the apt sources > to iiNet, my ISP, and performed an upgrade (108 items, and something I > had to do first as the default repo didn't have the ATI driver while the > iinet repo did). After restarting the system my DVB card was > recognised. What I now have to do is go and get an nVidia graphics > card. My wife's older ATI won't function properly with Mythbuntu. > Recordings play back fine but live TV, especially HDTV, is so choppy > it's ridiculous!
Could also be the CPU doesn't have enough grunt. What processor is in the box? > Thanks. > -- > > Simon Ives > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > www.simonives.info > > Please consider the environment before printing this email or any > attachments. > > > On Sat, 2008-09-06 at 14:03 +1000, Simon Ives wrote: > > Hi All, I'm having a minor hardware issue that I hope someone can help > > me with. > > > > Yesterday I decided to make my wife's Windows XP based desktop dual boot > > Mythbuntu 8.01 so that I'd have access to the media on my file server > > via a media centre interface in the bedroom. I've got Mythbuntu 8.01 > > running fine in the living room, but with a different dvb card. > > Mythbuntu installed fine except two things. The first is that I'm as > > yet unable to configure widescreen support for the ATI card, but I can > > get this fixed on my own. What's got me stumped is the DVB card. > > > > The card is a DViCO FusionHDTV DVB-T Lite, a bit old but is supposed to > > work with stock kernels since 2.6.9. Mythbuntu, however, doesn't seem > > able to see the card. > > > > The relevant section of lsmod reads: > > > > Module | Size | Used by > > > > dvb_bt8xx | 17796 | 1 > > dvb_core | 81404 | 1 dvb_bt8xx > > and > > bttv | 175860 | dvb_bt8xx bt878 > > > > So the modules seem to be there. > > > > If I cd into /dev/dvb/ a single adapter is listed as adapter0 > > > > However, upon dmesg | grep dvb I get: > > > > [ 41.072890] bttv0: add subdevice "dvb0" > > > > Any suggestions and/or help would be much appreciated. -- ubuntu-au mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au
