Re: Gnome-dvb-setup appears to freeze while scanning for channels

[Sebastian Pölsterl <sebp k-d-w org>]

Am 29.05.2010 22:26, schrieb John Robinson:
> Hi everyone.  I'm attempting to scan for channels using Gnome-dvb-setup
> with a Hauppauge USB TV stick under Ubuntu Lucid on a 64-bit system. I
> live in the UK and the antenna nearest to me is Winter Hill. I select
> these in Gnome-dvb-setup and click 'Forward'. The channel scanning
> process begins, but appears to freeze when the progress bar reaches
> about 80%. When I repeat the process but select 'Unknown' for the
> antenna, scanning takes much longer, but the process appears to freeze
> when the progress bar reaches about 21%. Has anyone solved this problem
> and, if so, how? I have considered creating a channels.conf file using
> w_scan, but am unsure where I need to put this file so that
> Gnome-dvb-daemon will recognise it. If anyone can offer any advice on
> this, I'd very much appreciate it.

Hi John,

could you please provide debug output of the scan by starting the daemon 
with "gnome-dvb-daemon --debug"

If you want to use a custom channels.conf have a look at 
http://live.gnome.org/DVBDaemon/UserGuide#Manual_setup

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Greetings,
Sebastian Pölsterl