pinnacle 801e help please!

pinnacle 801e help please!

[Ray Bullins]

I am new to Linux (somewhat) and I am running Linux mint 9. So far so
good, I have replaced dreamweaver with NVU, office with open office.
Outlook with evolution and so on. Everything is now perfect no looking
back to windows except I just spent about 1.5 hours going through
configuring mythtv only to find it doesn't think my pinnacle usb hd
stick is a dvb device. So i did more research and stumbled upon all of
your hard work and tried downloading the tar for my device but it
wouldn't download. 2 questions 1) will this device work now 2) how do I
implement all of you fixes in mint Linux 9 gnome running mythtv?

thanks for any help
Ray 

Re: pinnacle 801e help please!

[Devin Heitmueller]

On Sun, Aug 8, 2010 at 7:53 PM, Ray Bullins <bbullins@triad.rr.com> wrote:
> I am new to Linux (somewhat) and I am running Linux mint 9. So far so
> good, I have replaced dreamweaver with NVU, office with open office.
> Outlook with evolution and so on. Everything is now perfect no looking
> back to windows except I just spent about 1.5 hours going through
> configuring mythtv only to find it doesn't think my pinnacle usb hd
> stick is a dvb device. So i did more research and stumbled upon all of
> your hard work and tried downloading the tar for my device but it
> wouldn't download. 2 questions 1) will this device work now 2) how do I
> implement all of you fixes in mint Linux 9 gnome running mythtv?
>
> thanks for any help
> Ray

The 801e driver only has support currently for ATSC/ClearQAM (which is
why it appears as a DVB device).  The driver does not have any support
for analog (e.g. the analog tuner or the composite/s-video inputs).

Run "ls /dev/dvb/adapter0/frontend0" and if you see an entry then the
driver loaded successfully.  Also, you may need to load firmware (it's
bundled by default with a number of distributions but I don't know
about Mint).  If you don't have it, you can get it here:

http://kernellabs.com/firmware/dib0700/

Cheers,

Devin

-- 
Devin J. Heitmueller - Kernel Labs
http://www.kernellabs.com