[arch-general] wintv-hvr 850 (hybrid) not detecting any signal.

[Sergey Manucharian]

Excerpts from Javier Vasquez's message from Sat 08-Oct-11 19:48:
> So, no one with experience on arch with this usb  device?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Javier.

Hi Javier,

I used to use wintv-hvr 950 a year or two ago - it worked fine. Will try find those old configs and run it again with the recent kernel etc.
(Not sure if 850 and 950 similar though).

I'let you know the results.
 
> On Sat, Sep 24, 2011 at 10:01 PM, Javier Vasquez
> <j.e.vasquez.v at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm not able to get my wintv-hvr 850 to work.  It fails to find signal
> > in both x86-32 and x86-64 machines...
> > ...
> >
> > Any hints?  I don't have ms-windows machine, but I asked a guy to try
> > the usb device with the proprietary CD that came with it, and it
> > worked out out of the box (what a surprise for these things thought
> > for ms-windows only), so the device is working nice.
> >
> > I would really appreciate any help you can provide.  BTW:
> >
> > core/linux 3.0.4-1 (base) [installed]
> >    The Linux Kernel and modules
> >
> > extra/v4l-utils 0.8.5-1 [installed]
> >    Userspace tools and conversion library for Video 4 Linux
> >
> > community/linuxtv-dvb-apps 1.1.1-4 [installed]
> >    Viewer programs for DVB cards
> >
> > community/tvtime 1.0.2-2 [installed]
> >    A high quality television application for use with video capture cards
> >
> > I've tried channels scan with scantv,  tvtime and tvtime-scanner.
> > Neither detect a thing, :-(
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > --
> > Javier.

-- 
Cheers,
Sergey