Dvico Dual 4 DVB tuner - refusing to work since new year

[Bill Davidsen]

Da Rock wrote:
> I picked up 2 of these cards because I read up on them at linuxtv.org,
> and found them to be supported reasonably well. Installed them and got
> them going before the end of the year.
> 
> Around the time of the new year coming in, some updates occurred and I
> lost them again. ls /dev/dvb showed on the one adapter when there should
> have been 5 (leadtek hybrid is also installed). I tried reinstalling
> drivers from linuxtv mercurial sources, but after 3 attempts and several
> kernel updates its a no go.
> 
> I can run modprobe and load the modules, lsmod shows them there and
> loaded, but after reboot (which is the only way to get them working once
> modules have been loaded- they're dual tuners running off a usb
> controller on the board; obviously I have no way of unplugging and
> replugging in as usb) they're gone again.
> 
> This is (was) a fresh install of F10 when I first got them working, but
> since updates forget it.
> 
> Any help here guys?
> 
I picked up several HVR-2250 dual tuner cards which were also "going to be 
supported in Linux soon." I will probably get one of those TV to network setups 
next and hope that IPv4 doesn't get dropped. Unless a developer is personally 
using the driver you need, assume it's unsupported. :-(

The vendors says there's not enough market to justify doing a Linux driver, 
ignoring that there won't be a market unless it works. Volunteer developers work 
on their drivers, but most lack time to do something they don't use.

See who wrote the driver and beg for help, or get something which works. 
Consider an old system which is just used to run the device and put the content 
on the network, install the pre-upgrade software and keep it behind a firewall.
-- 
Bill Davidsen <davidsen at tmr.com>
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