F14 Question: AVerMedia AVerTV Volar Black HD/-A850 availability

[Thomas Janssen]

On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 11:03 AM, Joachim Backes
<joachim.backes at rhrk.uni-kl.de> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have the impression that the  DVBT-USB stick mentioned in the subject line
> is not supported by F14. After plugging in, I got an error msg: missing
> firmware file in /lib/firmware:
>
> ======================================================================
> Aug 17 16:13:56 localhost kernel: dvb-usb: found a 'AverMedia AVerTV Volar
> Black HD (A850)' in cold state, will try to load a firmware
> Aug 17 16:13:56 localhost kernel: dvb-usb: did not find the firmware file.
> (dvb-usb-af9015.fw) Please see linux/Documentation/dvb/ for more details on
> firmware-problems.
> ======================================================================
>
> So I copied dvb-usb-af9015.fw from some UBUNTU installation to
> /lib/firmware, and I could watch digital TV with kaffeine.
>
> So my question: would it be possible to support that stick in >= F15
> versions?

Nice query. I have a AVerTV Hybrid Volar HX(A827) and it's the same
situation. I use right now the driver/firmware from here:
http://www.avermedia.com/avertv/Support/Download.aspx?Action=search&Kind=APDriver&interface=3&signal=3&keyword=linux

Works nicely on my F-13, even with latest kernel from updates-testing.

-- 
LG Thomas

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