Difficul;ties with trying to install and use tv adaptor

[Bret Busby]

On 13/05/2018, Bret Busby <bret.busby at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 13/05/2018, Nils Kassube <kassube at gmx.net> wrote:
>> Bret Busby wrote:
>>> I have purchased and tried to install, a tv adaptor;
>>>     AVerMedia A867R AVerTV Volar HD Nano USB TV Tuner
>>> for PAL digital television in Austyralia, on UbuntuMATE 16.04.x
>>
>>> I tried to inslall MythTV, which would not install from the Ubuntu
>>> Software Centre, because it wants to get rid of MySQL, also tried to
>>> install MeTV and TVTime.
>>>
>>> Amongst other problems, apparently, the tv device is not detected.
>>
>> What is the output of the command
>>
>> ls /dev/dvb
>>
>> in a terminal when the device is connected? If there is no directory at
>> that location, what is the output of
>>
>> lsusb
>>
>> where it should have an entry for the device with the device name or at
>> least an entry for Avermedia.
>>
>> And maybe there is only a missing firmware. You may need the package
>> linux-firmware-nonfree.
>>
>>> I am wondering whether a simple method exists, of getting this device
>>> working on UbuntuMATE Linux 16.04, without having to eliminate MySQL.
>>
>> I would suggest to use kaffeine instead of MythTV - there is no conflict
>> with mysql and it is the best application for DVB reception IMHO.
>>
>>
>> Nils
>>
>
> "
> bret at bret-Inspiron-580-UbuntuMATE:~$ s /dev/dvb
> s: command not found
> bret at bret-Inspiron-580-UbuntuMATE:~$ ls /dev/dvb
> ls: cannot access '/dev/dvb': No such file or directory
> bret at bret-Inspiron-580-UbuntuMATE:~$ lsusb
> Bus 002 Device 004: ID 03f0:4507 Hewlett-Packard External HDD
> Bus 002 Device 019: ID 07ca:1867 AVerMedia Technologies, Inc.
> Bus 002 Device 003: ID 058f:6362 Alcor Micro Corp. Flash Card Reader/Writer
> Bus 002 Device 002: ID 8087:0020 Intel Corp. Integrated Rate Matching Hub
> Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
> Bus 001 Device 005: ID 046d:c077 Logitech, Inc. M105 Optical Mouse
> Bus 001 Device 004: ID 0665:5161 Cypress Semiconductor USB to Serial
> Bus 001 Device 003: ID 04d9:1503 Holtek Semiconductor, Inc. Keyboard
> Bus 001 Device 002: ID 8087:0020 Intel Corp. Integrated Rate Matching Hub
> Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
> "
>

Searchimng in synaptic, ddi not find the package  linux-firmware-nonfree
but, in searching on the term firmware, I found, and, installed, using apt-get,
firmware-tools firmware-addon-dell firmware-extract


"
$ sudo apt-get install  linux-firmware-nonfree
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
E: Unable to locate package linux-firmware-nonfree

"

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Bret Busby
Armadale
West Australia

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