Help! Anybody got pctv 800i working on Intrepid

[Karl F. Larsen]

Mike Adolf wrote:
> I have waited for the arrival of Ubuntu 8.10 in hopes that my pctv 800i 
> tuner would work.  Reading the various mail lists assured me it would 
> never work on 8.04, something about the alsa kernel modules screwed up 
> or left out. After moving to Intrepid, I downloaded and installed the 
> tuner firmware to lib/firmware/<kernel> as was recommended on mythtv 
> site.  I was very excited when TVtime showed a crisp picture, but I was 
> brought back to Ubuntu reality when the audio did not work.  All other 
> audio on my system works fine.  What is so different about a tuner that 
> makes it so hard to get working? Extremely frustrating!  Of course it 
> works on Windows.  Most of what I read on the lists was out dated 
> relative to tv on Intrepid.  I'm not trying to get mythtv to work.  I 
> just want the turner to work. Does anyone have any ideas?
>
> Mike
>
>   
    I found the sound to be bad on Intrepid until you get all the 
updates. Get the updates.

Karl


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