Pinnacle Dazzle DVB-T USB stick is not being recognized by Kaffeine.

[oss_test_launchpad]

Binary package hint: kaffeine

2.6.24-11-rt
ID 2304:022b Pinnacle Systems, Inc.

dmesg | grep dvb -> (...) saa7146: register extension 'dvb'.

[David Mills (d-mills)]

We should fidn a way to distinguish the two

[David Mills (d-mills)]

Wrong message, sorry,

Could you please post the entire dmesg file?

Thank you

[oss_test_launchpad (oss-test-launchpad)]

Sorry, gave the stick to a friend. Cannot help any more.

[John Carragher (jcarragher)]

I've been experimenting with Ubuntu's support for TV through 7.04, 7.10 and now 8.04 Beta. I had limited success under 7.04 and have had no success since then.

I have licensed Sage TV and had TV working with Sage TV, MythTV and TVTime under 7.04 with a TwinHaan PCI card. Since then I have tried using a Fusion 4 card (twin tuners), an ASUS TV card, a Fusion USB dongle, a Compro USB dongle and a Pinnacle dongle. Every one of these works immediately on XP or Vista machines. Ubuntu sort of recognised them - even though I had to do ridiculous things for the new Fusion PCI card - but after 7.04 no TV software showed TV.

I now test using TVTime as it is the quickest way of finding out whether the TV hardware has been detected and support implemented.

I'm impressed with the progress that has been made via Ubuntu and have spent many hours today trying to get my notebook using Ubuntu and being able to do all the things I want it to do. The Pinnacle TV card seems to be based on a Phillips chipset and on the preceding desktop tests was recognised to some extent. Hence I've done my testing on an ACER Aspire 5720 using this USB dongle.

The kde-hal-device-manager thinks the Pinnacle USB dongle is a 2881 device. TVTime doesn't believe there are any devices it can use.

Whatever is standing in the way now is probably minor compared to what has been achieved. The huge amount of effort expended to provide the TV driver support is worthless if even the simple applications like TVTime can't deliver.

[John Carragher (jcarragher)]

Instead of TVTime I tried Kaffeine. No joy with the Pinnacle USB but success with the Fusion HDTV USB tuner and the Compro Pro USB tuner. Excellent.