Re: [Hampshire] AverMedia Tuner Help

On 25/12/06, Mark Johnson <mark@???> wrote:
> Hi all,
> I got a lovely AverMedia Hybrid TV tuner for christmas, but I'm having a
> little trouble getting it to work. Basically, I want to set it up as a
> tuner to use with MythTV. I've googled, and there's plenty of guides out
> there that say things like "Just copy the firmware to xxx" but doesn't
> mention where to copy it from, and this is a new area for me so I'm
> getting a little lost.
>
> I seem to remember AverMedia being mentioned/recommended by someone on
> the list a while back, so would anyone be able to give me a prod as to
> which modules I need to load, what I need to copy where, etc in order to
> get me going?
>
> I'm using (K)Ubuntu Dapper
>
> Many Thanks,
> Mark
>

I think you were mistaken. There does not seem to be much support for
that device in Linux.
AverMedia do some binary only drivers that badly violate the GPL for
FedoraCore, Mandriva, Suse, but not much else. I.e. You cannot use
those binary modules on ubuntu.

James