My woes are huge, and a now 1 year trying (revisiting after giving up earlier). here is my dmesg, any help would sure be appreciated
7.596583] input: HDA Digital PCBeep as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1b.0/input/input11
7.620866] tveeprom 0-0050: Hauppauge model 77041, rev E2F0, serial# 3746385
7.620870] tveeprom 0-0050: MAC address is 00-0D-FE-39-2A-51
7.620873] tveeprom 0-0050: tuner model is Xceive XC5000 (idx 150, type 76)
7.620877] tveeprom 0-0050: TV standards NTSC(M) ATSC/DVB Digital (eeprom 0x88)
7.620880] tveeprom 0-0050: audio processor is CX23885 (idx 39)
7.620883] tveeprom 0-0050: decoder processor is CX23885 (idx 33)
7.620885] tveeprom 0-0050: has no radio
7.620888] cx23885[0]: hauppauge eeprom: model=77041
7.620893] cx23885_dvb_register() allocating 1 frontend(s)
7.620896] cx23885[0]: cx23885 based dvb card
7.632164] iwlagn 0000:02:00.0: Tunable channels: 11 802.11bg, 13 802.11a channels
7.632238] alloc irq_desc for 30 on node 0
7.632240] alloc kstat_irqs on node 0
7.632266] iwlagn 0000:02:00.0: irq 30 for MSI/MSI-X
7.686121] nvidia 0000:01:00.0: power state changed by ACPI to D0
7.686135] nvidia 0000:01:00.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 16
7.686145] nvidia 0000:01:00.0: setting latency timer to 64
7.686403] NVRM: loading NVIDIA UNIX x86_64 Kernel Module 190.42 Tue Oct 20 20:25:42 PDT 2009
7.767510] xc5000 1-0061: creating new instance
7.768226] xc5000: Successfully identified at address 0x61
7.768229] xc5000: Firmware has not been loaded previously
7.768233] DVB: registering new adapter (cx23885[0])
7.768236] DVB: registering adapter 0 frontend 0 (Samsung S5H1409 QAM/8VSB Frontend)...
7.768566] cx23885_dev_checkrevision() Hardware revision = 0xb0
7.768577] cx23885[0]/0: found at 0000:04:00.0, rev: 2, irq: 17, latency: 0, mmio: 0xf6000000
7.768586] cx23885 0000:04:00.0: setting latency timer to 64
299.384739] xc5000: waiting for firmware upload (dvb-fe-xc5000-1.6.114.fw)…
299.384755] cx23885 0000:04:00.0: firmware: requesting dvb-fe-xc5000-1.6.114.fw
299.422988] xc5000: firmware read 12401 bytes.
299.422994] xc5000: firmware uploading…
301.025083] xc5000: firmware upload complete…
334.462252] xc5000: waiting for firmware upload (dvb-fe-xc5000-1.6.114.fw)…
334.462280] cx23885 0000:04:00.0: firmware: requesting dvb-fe-xc5000-1.6.114.fw
334.468916] xc5000: firmware read 12401 bytes.
334.468920] xc5000: firmware uploading…
336.078324] xc5000: firmware upload complete…
363.116439] xc5000: waiting for firmware upload (dvb-fe-xc5000-1.6.114.fw)…
363.116453] cx23885 0000:04:00.0: firmware: requesting dvb-fe-xc5000-1.6.114.fw
363.122604] xc5000: firmware read 12401 bytes.
363.122607] xc5000: firmware uploading…
364.731323] xc5000: firmware upload complete…
374.579649] xc5000: waiting for firmware upload (dvb-fe-xc5000-1.6.114.fw)…
374.579664] cx23885 0000:04:00.0: firmware: requesting dvb-fe-xc5000-1.6.114.fw
374.586094] xc5000: firmware read 12401 bytes.
374.586097] xc5000: firmware uploading…
376.196199] xc5000: firmware upload complete…