Hi,
I want to inform you that thanks to Douglas Schilling Landgraf, the 
first point (automatic recognition of the device when plugged in) ha 
been resolved (using his development tree driver).
I've tried to scan for digital channels again and the result has not 
changed but in the dmesg attached there are a lot of messages created 
during the scan process. I hope they are useful to solve at list the 
issue related with the digital scanning.
Thank you,
Xwang

xwang1976@email.it ha scritto:
>
> Hi to all,
> I've an Empire Dual Pen usb device.
> Up to now I've used Markus driver, but now I've tried to switch to the 
> v4l-dvb driver.
> However I've the following issues:
> 1) the card is  not recognized automatically so I've to modprobe the 
> em28xx module with the parameter card=66
> 2) when scanning for analog tv channels with tvtime-scanner, the 
> system hangs and since  the alt+Sys+REISUB procedure does not help, I 
> have to turn off the pc (very, very, very bad)
> 3) digital tv channels are not tuned by kaffeine (SNR value is always 
> zero).
> So the device is not usable.
> Can it be fixed or is it better to buy an already supported device? 
> Inthe second case which device can you suggest me? Is this device:
> http://www.terratec.net/en/products/technical-data/produkte_technische_daten_en_87128.html 
>
> supported by the latest v4l drivers.
> Thank you for your help,
> Xwang
>
> PS: I live in Italy and I use kubuntu 9.04 amd64
>