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Ubuntu (Feisty) and my New Nova T 500 dont want to play
As per subject, I am struggling to get my Nova T 500 MCE card to load into Feisty.
Story so far........
the H/W
P4 HT 3Ghz,
Gigabyte 8knxp (875 chipset)
1GB Ram
20GB Ide HDD (system)
250GB sata 2 (recordings)
200GB sata (storage)
Audigy 2 zs
nvidia geforce 2mx 64mb (AGP) composite out.
the S/W
I have had to install from dapper -> edgy -> feisty and the feisty update was done all manually as some file corrupted on the way down and totally screwed the update process.
Mythtv is installed and just about ready to go apart from setting the channels and tuner card.
The issue is I cant get the driver to load for dvb_usb_dib0700 as it looks for a firmware that doesnt exist.
I have then tried to redo the driver by grabbing the necessaries from v4l-dvb repository and mercurial also grabbed the necessary header files and what i assume to be source files as well but still i get this error when i try to make..
make -C /home/ragman/v4l-dvb/v4l
make[1]: Entering directory `/home/ragman/v4l-dvb/v4l'
perl scripts/make_config_compat.pl /lib/modules/2.6.20-16-generic/source ./.myconfig ./config-compat.h
File not found: /lib/modules/2.6.20-16-generic/source/include/linux/netdevice.h at scripts/make_config_compat.pl line 15.
make[1]: *** [config-compat.h] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/ragman/v4l-dvb/v4l'
make: *** [all] Error 2
I have installed the header and source files i have no idea where they have gone so that i can even fudge it by creating/copying the directories myself.
"help me obi won kenobe you are my only hope"
Last edited by Ragman; 5th October 2007 at 09:57 PM.
Reason: needed to add in the error message on the ubuntu box
Re: Ubuntu (Feisty) and my New Nova T 500 dont want to play
well it was running but i think my system drive just died,
i may have to reinstall from scratch will get feisty isos tonight and have another crack at it
initially couldnt get a firmware file and when i found a later one even tried renaming that but if i do a dmesg | grep dvb it says its still in a cold state and couldnt find the firmware
will keep you posted on my reinstall success as soon as i find another ide to use
Then I put /home and all non root directories under lvm filesystems consisting of 1 or more (or all) of the partitions in the extended area plus entire data disks.
The sweet thing with this is that you can have your main ubuntu install on the first partition but when a new version comes out you can install it to partition 2. When you have the build complete and tested you set partition 2 to boot as default and then you have partition 1 free again for next time you want to install something else.
I actually chop up my extended partition into logical 10gb partitions as well and join them all together under lvm at the os level as one big disk though you could use a bigger number for a high capacity drive to keep it manageable. The good thing with that is that you can reduce out 10gb any time you want to use it for something else and then re-add it effortlessly when you're done with it. Total flexibility. Sounds complicated in text but in reality it's not and all your data and filesystems including your /home drive can be mounted under either instance of OS.. No rework required.
This also gives you the ability to take easy images of the root filesystems only without getting your data confused with the OS backup.
I've had 5 distros installed and de-installed (and space reassigned), at once this way without having to repartition the drive once.
All you need to do anytime you make a change is upgrade your primary grub menu.lst in order to boot the new additions (or remove them altogether).
Just something you might consider now to make your life easier down the track.
Re: Ubuntu (Feisty) and my New Nova T 500 dont want to play
sounds good mate, pity i didnt get this post before i finished installing on the 4gb drive i found also way beyond my level of understanding of linux at this stage
the only way i have been able to get as far as i did before is from ppl giving step by step instructions, basically its the only way to learn is monkey see monkey do till i have the commands down pat in my head.
every time i have had a major catastrophic failure of a linux distro i have had to install from scratch, the repetiveness of such an excercise means that everything i need to redo over again i will not only get faster at but retain more in my noggin.
anyway after downloading the iso for feisty and a clean install on the 4gb drive the firmware loaded along with the driver
i still may grab out a 60gb ide from my sons machine after i image it to a 120gb sata for him, and who knows may learn how to muck around with grub configuring,
this PVR box is intended for the lounge room tho so once in place i am hoping to not have to worry about it for a while
thanks for the help and suggestions fellas, will certainly hang around for more tidbits
Re: Ubuntu (Feisty) and my New Nova T 500 dont want to play
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Originally Posted by Ragman
sounds good mate, pity i didnt get this post before i finished installing on the 4gb drive i found also way beyond my level of understanding of linux at this stage
the only way i have been able to get as far as i did before is from ppl giving step by step instructions, basically its the only way to learn is monkey see monkey do till i have the commands down pat in my head.
every time i have had a major catastrophic failure of a linux distro i have had to install from scratch, the repetiveness of such an excercise means that everything i need to redo over again i will not only get faster at but retain more in my noggin.
anyway after downloading the iso for feisty and a clean install on the 4gb drive the firmware loaded along with the driver
i still may grab out a 60gb ide from my sons machine after i image it to a 120gb sata for him, and who knows may learn how to muck around with grub configuring,
this PVR box is intended for the lounge room tho so once in place i am hoping to not have to worry about it for a while
thanks for the help and suggestions fellas, will certainly hang around for more tidbits
No problems. Keep at it. You will get to a stage where the windows approach of re-installing is no longer required. Everything in Linux can be fixed without a rebuild and usually without a reboot too. It's a learning curve for sure but in my opinion it's one worth going though.
Once you get things set up right though it shouldn't change and just work. No chance of a windows update coming along and ruining your hard work
Re: Ubuntu (Feisty) and my New Nova T 500 dont want to play
yeah appreciate the help, software is software and developers being the breed they are will break something in an update at some stage.
well the progress is looking good, i need to sort out my house antenna is hanging off the roof in a precarious angle and when scanning the channels keep timing out. I was told by an antenna tech that used a digital signal and frequency meter on it that yes the analog is stuffed but the digital is strong enough for a digital receiver to be put in place, either he misread the tester or i have another issue with the box that i have no clue where to start looking.
will drag it over to a place i know has digital reception and at least remove the antenna and technician factors to resolve what my next step is
Re: Ubuntu (Feisty) and my New Nova T 500 dont want to play
Hi,
So you're doing the scaning in mythtv still I presume.
Have you tried a powered booster if the signal is shared between other devices. The best idea, is as you said, to try with a known good source first.
I have no experience with the Nova-T, as I'm only using a mixture of Dvico's & DNTV Live's.
