My friend has a GDI Black Gold DVB card and we were trying to get it to work in my myth box before trying to convert his MCE install to mythtv.

At first it was detected as being unknown/generic and spat out a list of cards. It said append card=2 to select GDI Black Gold. So i appended card=2 to cx88xx in /etc/modules and rebooted.

During the reboot it selected gdi black gold (yay!) but said tuner unknown. Card also couldnt be detected in mythtv-setup




From this page: http://www.linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php?t ... edirect=no

It tells you all the chips & tuner, but I don't know how to use that info

Now unfortunately searching for this board is just about useless as every unknown board spits out a list of cards and undoubtably every time someone pastes the whole lot into a forum thread like so (i have removed the names so it doesn't make the problem any worse):

cx88[0]: card=0 -> UNKNOWN/GENERIC
cx88[0]: card=1 ->
cx88[0]: card=2 -> GDI Black Gold
cx88[0]: card=3 ->
cx88[0]: card=4 -> ...
...
cx88[0]: card=21 -> ...

Does any1 have any hints for getting this to work?

Bumpty bump!

Anybody have the slightest idea on how to get this to work?

I am not familiar with that card, but will try to help.

1) The changes you made in /etc/modules has enabled the Analogue input on the card (if it has one)

2) You need to load an extra module or two so that drivers for the DVB tuner can create the extra DVB interfaces. The link that you provided mentions CX22702, so try:

modprobe cx22700

and check the console messages to see if anything else has been installed.

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The card has an svideo input aswell so i guess thats the analogue bit.

modprobe cx22700 or cx22702 doesn't give any extra output.

I rebooted and lsmod lists them there already.

As far as i see this card is almost identical to the Hauppauge nova-t so i'm a bit confused as to why it doesn't work :/ I have emailed GDI but no response.

I investigated further, it looks like you are out of luck for now:

http://linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php/PCI_devices_DVB-T

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Awww thats a shame I would have thought since it uses the same chips as most other DVB cards it would be fairly trivial to get working. I have a little C knowledge, might have to start learning how this stuff works.