just an update for all and sundry.
I did a clean install of karmic and plugged in my leadtek gold usb tuner
purchased ~3 weeks ago
It loads 4.65 firmware and works out of the box but has the polling issue with
the remote.
I then removed and plugged into a windows pc and installed the 4.95 firmwa
as
checking each time in dmesg to find out what firmware was loading.
I also noticed some people suggesting to install the firmware in /lib/firmware
and others /lib/firmware/$(uname -r)/
what difference does this make?
I'd like to learn a lot more about this stuff
cheers
Rileyp
Thanks agai
Thankyou so much for your help BernardB
It worked as soon as I rebooted!
I have a winfast/leadtek gold dtv dongle.
A leadtek dtv1000s
a gigabyte ga-gc230d (intel atom) motherboard
1 gig of ram (will upgrade to 2gig shortly)
500g wd sata hdd
This polling issue has been annoying me for weeks as it ha
When I use firmware 4.65 the tuner works and lock on all available dvb tv
stations but I get the repeated errors in dmesg.
"af9015: command failed:255
dvb-usb: error while querying for an remote control event."
When I use firmware 4.7~ and 4.95 I do not get the errors but the tuner will
not lo
