[mythtv-users] What do I need to get UK Freesat Channels In Mythtv and EIT Data?

Paul Wootton pwootton at gmail.com
Sun Mar 3 12:36:06 UTC 2013


I belive they have some proprietry code that they can't put in the kernel, so the need to compile.   However I'm not finding it onerous; generally it's iinstall kernel, reboot, recompile drivers (via small shell script; reboot.   Takes about 20 minutes.

-- Paul --

On 3 Mar 2013, at 11:38, nospam312 <nospam312 at gmail.com> wrote:

>> I'm using the TBS6891; it's a dual tuner PCI card.  I'm running 12.04 LTS
>> for which it does need the drivers compiled.  It's a pretty painless to do
>> (I have a small shell script to do it) and I can rebuild the drivers in ~20
>> minutes after a new release of the kernel.
> 
> Thanks that is the one I have bookmarked.
> 
> Do you know if TBS are trying to get support in the kernel it is a
> pain when you update and the kernel gets updated always having to
> recompile?
> 
> TIA
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