Alan Secker wrote:

> I had my Hauppauge DBB-T-500 working quite nicely under Kaffeine but
> would not play ball under MythTV. I really wanted to record stuff
> not so much watch live TV, so followed some adive spotted on Google
> to delete various settings in MythTV and recreate them again. That
> didn't work.
>
> I gave up and tried Kaffeine again, only to find the DVB option
> gone. Trying it in a terminal produced:
>
> 0
> kaffeine: No DVB device found.

This usually means I've knocked the antenna cable out of its socket.
Sometimes it means that I've been mucking about with modules and
module parameters.

Have you changed anything in /etc ?
Does "lsmod" or "lsmod | grep dvb" look like it used to?
Have you rebooted?


> kaffeine: PLAYLIST
> kaffeine: PlayList: add 1 items to playlist
> kaffeine: PlayList: Check for kaffeine/noatun/m3u/pls/asx playlist
> kaffeine: PlayList: Try loading kaffeine playlist
> kaffeine: PlaylistImport:
> kaffeine: /home/alan/.kde/share/apps/kaffeine/playlist
> s/NEW.kaffeine
> kaffeine: Window manager: KWin found
>
> and a dialog displaying Can't bind info socket!!!
>
> Does anyone have a clue as to what I've managed to do?



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Peter D. wrote:

> Alan Secker wrote:
>
>> I had my Hauppauge DBB-T-500 working quite nicely under Kaffeine but

>
> This usually means I've knocked the antenna cable out of its socket.
> Sometimes it means that I've been mucking about with modules and
> module parameters.
>
> Have you changed anything in /etc ?
> Does "lsmod" or "lsmod | grep dvb" look like it used to?
> Have you rebooted?
>>
>> and a dialog displaying Can't bind info socket!!!
>>
>> Does anyone have a clue as to what I've managed to do?
>

I uninstalled Kaffiene and rebooted. I checked to make sure any residual
kaffiene related directories were moved to somewhere neutral and again
shutdown. (You have to sleep sometime)!

On booting up I tried # ls -l /dev/dvb/* and got nothing. Although the
firmware was in place I downloaded it again and set it into /lib/firmware.
Again I rebooted and tried kaffiene.

The legend 'Can't bind info socket!!!' came up. After clicking the X, up
came kaffiene. I went into Settings->setup kaffiene player-> DVB Client and
unchecked enable client. I then went into DVB Channels. I changed the AUTO
and hit the spinner, running down to UK Crystal Palace (my nearest
transmitter site) and started the scanner. To my surprise it found more
Radio and channels than it had managed previously.

After checking that it worked. I closed it and opened MythTV again. I tried
Live TV. No real connection but some message sayng something was locked.
I gave up and tried kaffiene again. Initially no go but eventually I go it
back. I'm going to forget MythTV for now and learn to use more of
kaffeine's facilities.

I would like to have worked out why things went wrong in the first place but
I guess I can live without.

Thanks for the advice.

Alan.

The day after my previous message, I pwered up my machine only to find
kaffeine would not 'see' my dvb card.

dmesg showed the Win-TV Nova-T-500 was there but could not load the
firmware. I checked that the firmware was at /lib/firmware and even
copied again from the downloaded copy. Nothing I do will get me to
see /dev/dvb.

Alan Secker wrote:

> Peter D. wrote:
>
>> Alan Secker wrote:
>>
>>> I had my Hauppauge DBB-T-500 working quite nicely under Kaffeine but
>

The reason that the driver could not find the firmware was because the
firmware file had acquired a new name! I have no idea how this happened.

The correct name for the Nova-T-500 is dvb-usb-dib700-01.fw. I must have had
this installed originally because Kaffeine was working perfectly. When i
checked today, I had dvb-usb-dib0700-1.10.fw. I simply copied the original
to another file with the original name. It is all working again.