Hi, I am running 13.1. Thought it would be nice to get a TV card.
To my suprise their is no option under yast for installing a TV card any longer ?!?. My question is, how can I install a TV card ???
Thanks and cheers otto_oz
Hi, I am running 13.1. Thought it would be nice to get a TV card.
To my suprise their is no option under yast for installing a TV card any longer ?!?. My question is, how can I install a TV card ???
Thanks and cheers otto_oz
You should not need to, for years already.
The card should be recognized and the drivers loaded automatically during boot.
If you do want, you can install 12.3’s TV module on 13.1, it should work fine.
openSUSE Software (but do not add the 12.3 repo to your system!)
But if your card does not work automatically, this probably won’t help either.
Thanks for the info. The next question is, how can I find out which TV-cards are supported by 13.1
Thanks and cheers
By the way I could not (!) install the 12.3 yast-tv software
Here maybe:
http://linuxtv.org/
(this subpage in particular: Hardware device information - LinuxTVWiki )
I don’t think there is a specific list for openSUSE 13.1.
Btw, I have a Technisat SkyStar2 DVB-S card and a Hauppauge WinTV analog card (with a bt878 chip) here, both work without problems out of the box on 13.1 (and I never had a problem in earlier versions either).
Why?
What error message do you get?
The error msg I got was simply “installation failed”
Thanks for the list. But it makes it still a shot in the blue, you may think you got the right card but if it works under 13.1 is not certain.
I think we should have the TV-card option in yast. There we can find out what is supported.
What type of card do you need?
I have ‘some’ experience with digital tv equipment from previous life - T? C? S?
And how did you try to install it?
This sounds like coming from Apper/PackageKit.
I suppose you just clicked on that “Install” button on the page? Which browser did you use?
You should open it with “YaST 1-click install”, that is the default here in Firefox.
Try to run this for installing it:
sudo rpm -i http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/openSUSE:/12.3/standard/noarch/yast2-tv-2.21.4-7.1.2.noarch.rpm
I think we should have the TV-card option in yast. There we can find out what is supported.
Well, the module got removed because it is not really needed and it was unmaintained.
If you want it back, feel free to volunteer as maintainer, or find somebody who does so.
Yast Modules Looking for Maintainer during Yast Modules: Summer Sale! - Install/Boot/Login - openSUSE Forums!
(the TV module is not explicitely listed in that post, but was affected as well)
Actually I did play with the thought to take over the TV module back then, but when I discovered that it actually isn’t needed any more for using a TV card, I dropped that idea…
But just having it for seeing what cards are supported is nonsense IMHO.
A card is not more or less supported just because it is listed in that module or not. If there is a problem with the driver, the module doesn’t help at all.
For that probably some Wiki page would be good, but somebody would have to regularly test all cards and keep it up-to-date.
Again, feel free to volunteer!
There actually is such a page, but it is oudated in the meantime. Maybe it will help you none-the-less? All cards supported in 12.1 should be supported in 13.1 as well, unless there have been regressions in the kernel drivers.
http://en.opensuse.org/HCL:TV
sudo rpm -i http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/openSUSE:/12.3/standard/noarch/yast2-tv-2.21.4-7.1.2.noarch.rpm
Hey that worked !!!
That at least gives me an idea which cards most likely work !
Thanks
I had a Dvico card before which worked well. Maybe I try this again.