[mythtv-users] How do you acquire and install KWORLD DVB-T 160 drivers

David Whyte david.whyte at gmail.com
Wed Sep 29 11:03:13 UTC 2010


On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 8:17 PM, Anthony Rooney <rooneyo at iinet.net.au> wrote:
> Whytey wrote:
>
>
>
>>In ubuntu you need to ensure you have installed the proprietary drivers
>> from the restricted driver app (or whatever it is called).
>
>>I have two of these cards in my server and run both tuners on each. This is
>> with ubuntu 10.04 but I am using the firmware from 9.10 since it was more
>> reliable to me.
>
>>Cheers
>>Whytey.
>
> My problem is I don’t know the procedure to install drivers and I am not
> clear about what to or even how to download?
>


I would do the following procedure:

1) On your server where you have the tuner card, from the mythbuntu
desktop, select Applications > System > Hardware Drivers.  This should
bring up a window that tells you you can install 'Firmware for DVB
cards'.
2) Select the entry for the DVB card firmware and click Activate.
3) You will need to reboot your server.  At this point, actually shut
it down, unplug the power connector and then try to turn it on (with
the power disconnected).  This ensures that the power is drained from
the PC and it is properly reset, which helps with these K-World cards.
4) Power on the PC.
5) After you have logged in, start a terminal and run the following
command 'dmesg | grep -i dvb' (without quotes) which should give you a
lot of messages about the drivers being initialised for your card.
For this command, I get the following...

djwhyte at mythBE1:~$ dmesg | grep -i dvb
[   10.659093] dvb-usb: found a 'KWorld PlusTV Dual DVB-T PCI (DVB-T
PC160-2T)' in cold state, will try to load a firmware
[   10.659097] usb 2-1: firmware: requesting dvb-usb-af9015.fw
[   10.857894] dvb-usb: downloading firmware from file 'dvb-usb-af9015.fw'
[   10.912244] dvb-usb: found a 'KWorld PlusTV Dual DVB-T PCI (DVB-T
PC160-2T)' in warm state.
[   10.912301] dvb-usb: will pass the complete MPEG2 transport stream
to the software demuxer.
[   10.912699] DVB: registering new adapter (KWorld PlusTV Dual DVB-T
PCI (DVB-T PC160-2T))
[   12.098578] DVB: registering adapter 0 frontend 0 (Afatech AF9013 DVB-T)...
[   12.480234] dvb-usb: will pass the complete MPEG2 transport stream
to the software demuxer.
[   12.480530] DVB: registering new adapter (KWorld PlusTV Dual DVB-T
PCI (DVB-T PC160-2T))
[   13.128907] af9013: found a 'Afatech AF9013 DVB-T' in warm state.
[   13.142783] DVB: registering adapter 1 frontend 0 (Afatech AF9013 DVB-T)...
[   13.435305] dvb-usb: KWorld PlusTV Dual DVB-T PCI (DVB-T PC160-2T)
successfully initialized and connected.
[   13.463586] dvb-usb: found a 'KWorld PlusTV Dual DVB-T PCI (DVB-T
PC160-2T)' in cold state, will try to load a firmware
[   13.463590] usb 3-1: firmware: requesting dvb-usb-af9015.fw
[   13.465012] dvb-usb: downloading firmware from file 'dvb-usb-af9015.fw'
[   13.521342] dvb-usb: found a 'KWorld PlusTV Dual DVB-T PCI (DVB-T
PC160-2T)' in warm state.
[   13.521399] dvb-usb: will pass the complete MPEG2 transport stream
to the software demuxer.
[   13.521851] DVB: registering new adapter (KWorld PlusTV Dual DVB-T
PCI (DVB-T PC160-2T))
[   13.876236] DVB: registering adapter 2 frontend 0 (Afatech AF9013 DVB-T)...
[   14.146753] dvb-usb: will pass the complete MPEG2 transport stream
to the software demuxer.
[   14.147163] DVB: registering new adapter (KWorld PlusTV Dual DVB-T
PCI (DVB-T PC160-2T))
[   14.796923] af9013: found a 'Afatech AF9013 DVB-T' in warm state.
[   14.810926] DVB: registering adapter 3 frontend 0 (Afatech AF9013 DVB-T)...
[   15.095321] dvb-usb: KWorld PlusTV Dual DVB-T PCI (DVB-T PC160-2T)
successfully initialized and connected.
[   15.102730] usbcore: registered new interface driver dvb_usb_af9015
djwhyte at mythBE1:~$

6) Assuming everything went well, you should be able to add two new
tuners in mythtv-setup.  These are DVB tuners and will be adaptor 0
and adaptor 1.
7) Try and record some shows and two different multiplexes.
8) Report back.

Cheers,
Whytey


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