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Simon Robert wrote:
Thanks for that Simon, I'll check it out. I did try w_scan but didn't have much luck although I will be upgrading to Ubuntu 10.04 Alpha in the next few days so maybe an updated version of w_scan might work.if you don't want to use kaffeine to do your scan for you there is another app which will do a scan without having to provide it with any start data called me-tv (produced by an Ozzie). It's a gnome based app, so good for non kde users. They, kaffeine and me-tv, probably both work by using an app called w-scan. I can't remember if this has a gui or not, but it front ends all the dvb-tv linux apps (szap, tzap etc) and you don't need to provide it with any info other than what type of scan you want, DVB-T, DVB-S etc, and what format you want the resulting channels.conf file to be - kaffeine channels.conf is slightly different from the one you need if using mplayer or tvtime or VDR or totem for example. As to installing a USB or PC card device for TV (in my case a skystar 2 satellite card) I'm sorry to admit I'm completely crap at installing firmware into the kernel and the like and always when faced with something of this magnitude reinstall the distro - seems to do the trick! Simon
From my limited experience, at least with this Hauppage adaptor, it's been a case of downloading and unzipping a Windows driver, running a perl script in a terminal and then copying a couple of .fw files into /lib/firmware with sudo. I guess it depends on the distro, I know Ubuntu tends to include firmwares or at least make them available but maybe other distros such as Debian (and maybe others?) might not make them so readily available. I guess in an ideal world these cards would have FLOSS firmware alternatives although I'm not sure which if any adaptors do have FLOSS or free as in freedom firmware available.
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