>From time to time, I try to enliven a dull evening by making yet another
attempt to get my Twinhan Alpha 7045A USB TV tuner to work on one of my
Debian ThinkPads. To the best of my ability, I've followed every piece of
advice and guidance I can find, but with the results below:
T42:/home/chris# cd /lib/firmware
T42:/lib/firmware# wget
http://www.linuxtv.org/downloads/firmware/dvb-usb-vp7045-01.fw
--17:54:57--
http://www.linuxtv.org/downloads/firmware/dvb-usb-vp7045-01.fw
=> `dvb-usb-vp7045-01.fw.1'
Resolving
www.linuxtv.org... 212.227.166.180
Connecting to
www.linuxtv.org|212.227.166.180|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 10,752 (10K) [text/plain]
100%[=================================================================================>]
10,752 --.--K/s
17:54:57 (88.94 KB/s) - `dvb-usb-vp7045-01.fw.1' saved [10752/10752]
T42:/home/chris# dmesg | tail
DVB: registering new adapter (Twinhan USB2.0 DVB-T receiver (TwinhanDTV
Alpha/MagicBox II)).
dvb-usb: MAC address: 08:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
DVB: registering frontend 0 (Twinhan VP7045/46 USB DVB-T)...
input: IR-receiver inside an USB DVB receiver as /class/input/input7
dvb-usb: schedule remote query interval to 400 msecs.
dvb-usb: Twinhan USB2.0 DVB-T receiver (TwinhanDTV Alpha/MagicBox II)
successfully initialized and connected.
T42:/home/chris# xawtv -hwscan
This is xawtv-3.95.dfsg.1, running on Linux/i686 (2.6.18-6-686)
looking for available devices
port 73-73
type : Xvideo, image scaler
name : ATI Radeon Video Overlay [Intel (R) Video Overlay on my X30]
T42:/home/chris# xawtv -tvscan
This is xawtv-3.95.dfsg.1, running on Linux/i686 (2.6.18-6-686)
can't open /dev/video0: No such file or directory
v4l-conf had some trouble, trying to continue anyway
v4l2: open /dev/video0: No such file or directory
v4l2: open /dev/video0: No such file or directory
v4l: open /dev/video0: No such file or directory
no video grabber device available
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USB device lights up and acknowledges signals from the IR Remote Control.
Clearly I'm missing something. Can anyone point me in the right direction?
Chris.
