Pinnacle PCTV HD Pro USB does not work under Ubuntu 8.04.

[Marc]

Bo Peng schreef:
> Dear all,
>
> I installed a fresh copy of Ubuntu 8.04 and tried to install a
> 'Pinnacle PCTV HD Pro USB stick'. I read and followed all the
> tutorials I could find but this device simply did not work (it works
> under windows). Here is what I have done:
>
> 1. I found that I did not have to install the em28xx driver because
> 'modprobe em28xx' worked out of box. What a pleasant surprise.
>
> 2. lsusb lists the device fine:
>
> Bus 007 Device 004: ID 2304:0227 Pinnacle Systems, Inc. [hex]
>
> 3. dmesg | grep usb yields
>
> [ 444.584352] usbcore: registered new interface driver em28xx
>
> However, there is no detailed information about this device, as shown
> on some tutorials. I also notice that there is no /dev/video0. As a
> result, kaffeine said 'could not find any DVB-device', me-tv said that
> 'no tuner device'.
>
>   

Under 704 I made this one work.
http://mcentral.de/wiki/index.php5/Main_Page  --the 330e device.

I suppose you need some dvb-utils or so.
Look for 'dvb'-nameOfPkg in synaptic.

Marc



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