TT Skystar 1

[Lucian Lancea]

Hi

Thank you for your help. Now it's late and I have to go to sleep. 
Tomorrow I will try what you told me. By the way, I live in Romania and 
my dish is on Astra 19,2E .
Now is the first time when I installed Linux ( some friend told me about 
Debian ) and I want to make VDR work :)

Thank you again and  I will send tomorrow news.

P.S. sorry for my bad english

Regards,
Lucian

Thomas Schmidt wrote:
> 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
>
>