Linux TV Software

I'm back after lots of pain and endurance I think i know why I got this problem.

It seems that the on board amplifier is too strong for my signal.
Basically (never thought I would say this) but my signal is too strong for the on board amplifier.

when I take out the cable slightly from my wall socket the signal gets stronger I can see the signal go from 36% to 100% on meTV software.

I've worked out two ways around this.

1. Find a firmware that will make the amplier on board to be weaker/stronger.

2. turn off my 5 way amplifier ( but then my tv in living room would suffer) yet to try this one

3. get this adapter that sits between my wall socket and cable one of those adapters that weakens the signal - had one of these ages ago

for step 1 I tried this from another place:

>i'm not sure if your card has an onboard signal amplifier, if you find you cannot pick up any channels when you scan it could be worth trying it:

wget http://www.wi-bw.tfh-wildau.de/~pboettch/home/linux-dvb-firmware/dvb-usb-dib0700-1.10.fw

sudo gedit /etc/modprobe.d/options
>(then add the line)
options dvb-usb-dib0700 force_lna_activation=1

sudo modprobe dvb-usb-dib0700

****

>reboot then:

dmesg | grep dvb
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After all of that I got this
parm@parm-desktop:~$ dmesg | grep dvb
[ 14.709570] cx88/2: cx2388x dvb driver version 0.0.7 loaded
[ 14.709572] cx88/2: registering cx8802 driver, type: dvb access: shared
[ 135.153402] usbcore: registered new interface driver dvb_usb_dib0700
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so it looks like it did find that firmware and use it but to no avail

hope this helps someone in the future :)

this all backs up my windows 7 no trouble where the signal is perfect.
someone out there who made the firmware for "out of the box" ubuntu made a serious error on the drivers
I'm going to try out my ways
 
okay step 2 was interesting:

after turning off my amplifier
all the signal was lost
YET

in meTV

I see 50% signal to noise ratio
100% signal strength

mmm what does that mean? step 2 does not solve it

1 or 3 now

I can try 3 if I can find the damn module I had it YEARS ago
 
Oxy said:
i have givewn up with linux on my HTPC, just installed win7 on it and about to order a dreambox to get me sky on HTPC.
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yer but I'm enjoying linux
compfusion looks great I am loving the wobbly windows
the system is running a lot faster too!

true that this is the only reason that I would want to go back to windows

I am sure someone out there can help us :)
 
yep true if only there was more support for them

maybe hauppauge could support linux at one point
then again maybe ms could stop selling software and make it freeware

I'm still going to try 1 or 3
:)
3 looks more likely
 
Oxy said:
Any progress psd99?

I just ordered my linux reciever, gonna try get my Sky encrypted channels working in MCe
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negative

really doesn't work wish I could work out a way to get it working

what tuner did you order?
there's one that is mentioned on this thread regularly sounds like it could work straight out of the box
 
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