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I don't speak Italian ... but I understand it due to having had Latin for 8 years in school. So maybe someone else here can translate for you what I write.
You have the
Hauppauge HVR-900 TV USB-stick, correct?
It can be made to work with Ubuntu 7.04. I assume the instructions also work with Mint. The instructions can be found here on a German blog:
http://blog.ikasweb.de/2007/05/07/hauppauge-hvr-900-mit-ubuntu-704/Step by step in English (someone please translate this into Italiano, per favore!):
1. You need additional tools and programs from the Ubuntu standard repositories:
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sudo apt-get install build-essential mercurial linux-source dvb-utils
2. We need the kernel headers for your running kernel. For this we need to know which kernel is running:
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uname -r
3. Verify if such a package exists:
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apt-cache search linux-headers-$(uname -r)
4. If the system responds that such a package exists, install the package:
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sudo apt-get install linux-headers-VERSION
( ... replace 'VERSION' above with the correct value you found out in step No. #3)
5. Create the directory for the firmware that the card will need:
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cd /lib
sudo mkdir firmware
(... if the directory already exists you may get an error message here, but that's OK then ...)
6. Get the firmware:
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sudo wget http://www.tuxamito.com.es/em2880/firmware_v3.tgz
7. Unpack the firmware:
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sudo tar xvzf firmware_v3.tgz
8. Change back to your own $HOME directory:
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cd
9. We will now use the 'hg' program (it is part of the 'mercurial' package .... if it is missing: sudo apt-get install mercurial ...):
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hg clone http://mcentral.de/hg/~mrec/v4l-dvb-experimental
10. Step #9 should have created a sub-directory with the experimental 'v4l' sources in it; we need to go into it:
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cd v4l-dvb-experimental
11. Now we install the drivers:
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make
sudo make install
12. The drivers should have installed without errors. Time to reboot so everything can re-initialise properly:
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sudo reboot
... If the TV USB-stick was plugged in: *please remove it now* !!
13. When the reboot has completed, we need to check if the driver is there now:
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sudo modprobe em28xx
14. Plug the USB-stick into your system and check the kernel messages:
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dmesg
15. You should now see a message saying something like this:
em28xx v4l2 driver version 0.0.1 loaded
16. If you don't see any error messages: Congratulations, it works now. All you need now is a TV application. I personally use 'tvtime'. You can find it easily in 'Synaptic' and install it via there. The original author of these hints uses 'kaffeine'. Screenshot taken from there (Ika's blog):
http://blog.ikasweb.de/wp-content/myfotos/blogpic/screenshot_kaffeine.pngTip: On my system I had the problem that I could not get sound from my HVR-900 TV stick. I had a perfect picture ... but no sound. There is a workaround for that. You can enter this into the shell so that the sound gets diverted to your internal built-in audio card:
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arecord -D hw:1,0 -f S16_LE -c2 -r48000 | aplay
... The important part here is the
'hw:1,0' parameter, it defines from which sound card the sound should be intercepted and diverted. In my laptop the internal sound card has the number '0', the TV-stick therefore is number '1'. On some systems with multiple sound hardware it could also be number '2': If you are not sure which number you should put there you can tell 'arecord' to list all known sound cards for you:
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arecord -l
... The number that belongs to the 'em28xx' adapter is the right one!
My HVR-900 now works tip top with these instructions, I hope it works for you as well.
I hope you will be able to understand these instructions or that someone will be so nice to translate them into Italian for you.
Regards.