TT Skystar 1

[Thomas Schmidt]

Hi

Sorry for the delayed answers, but i am really busy these days.

* Lucian Lancea schrieb am 18.04.06, um 08:02 Uhr:
>    * I have Debian 3.1 r1 i3 (version of 2 DVDs), Kernel 2.6
>    * I have TechniSat Skystar 1 rev 1.3
>
> I can't install drivers (or better say, I don't know how to install them)

Well, if you are using the stock debian kernel 2.6.8, it should work
more or less out of the box (but the drivers in newer kernels should
be much better). The first thing you should know is that you need to
download the firmware for the card from 
http://www.linuxtv.org/download/firmware the file dvb-ttpci-01.fw-xxxx
this file must be placed in /usr/lib/hotplug/firmware/ and renamed to
dvb-ttpci.fw 

Then you should try to load the module for your card (dvb-ttpci).

(If vdr later works when you load the module manually, you can add the
entry dvb-ttpci to /etc/modules - this will cause the module to be
loaded automatically everytime you start your computer.)

> I can't install VDR software.

A simple "apt-get install vdr" is enough to install it, after the
installation, you have to enable the deamon in /etc/default/vdr and
you can start vdr by calling "/etc/init.d/vdr start".

When vdr starts sucessfully (please take a look at /var/log/syslog, if
the driver was not loaded completely, vdr will restart itself every
few seconds), you should see a picture on a TV-Set.

I do not know which sattelite network you intend to use (here in
Germany, most people are using Astra-19.2E), but if it is another one
than Astra-19.2E, you should download a channels.conf-file for vdr and
your sattelite network from somewhere, or you can try to create a own
one with the "scan" utility from the package dvb-utils.

I hope that these instructions are enough for your first steps with
vdr, please ask, if still does not work.


Regards,
Thomas

-- 
Thomas Schmidt, Debian VDR Team
http://pkg-vdr-dvb.alioth.debian.org/
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