[mythtv-users] UK: Problems tuning Hauppauge NOVA-T500 (DSO related?)

[Karl Dietz]

On 18.01.2012 21:23, Thomas Boehm wrote:
> Gavin Whitehead wrote:
>> On 16/01/2012 06:22, Tony Sauri wrote:
>>> #>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>> #
>>> #  Turn on the Hauppauge-T-500 DVB CARD  LNA (Low Noise Amplifier)
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>>> #
>>> options dvb_usb_dib0700 force_lna_activation=1
>>> #>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>
>> By the way, having Googled around this config change I can see lots of
>> pages saying you should do this - but none explaining why.  Any ideas?
>
> Activating the Low Noise Amplifier?

fwiw I blindly copied that into my config just to notice that my TD-500
only works without it!

Regards,
Karl