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I've just succeeded in getting my Black Gold BGT3620 twin DVB-T2 PCIe tuner card working with Linux Mint so I thought I would share this information here as it may help someone to do the same.
As said, I'm using latest Linux Mint Cinnamon 17 (3.13.0-24 kernel x86_64) but I reckon this should work with most distros.
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UPDATE: There is now an alternative build kindly provided by user trident01 which has all the patches pre-applied and has been tested with Linux Mint Cinnamon 17.3 using kernels up to, and including, v4.2.0-25. For more details see the posts at the end of this thread starting from post #39.
To build the drivers simply enter these four instructions from the command line (replacing the asterisks in the link):
cd /usr/src
sudo git clone h**p://www.cblinux.co.uk:5010/BGT3xxx
cd BGT3xxx
sudo ./build.sh
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Finally a reboot is required to load the modules. You can then confirm adapter status using the lsdvb command. Output should look like this:
lsdvb: Simple utility to list PCI/PCIe DVB devices
Version: 0.0.4
Copyright (C) Manu Abraham
SAA7231 (1131:7231 14:3620) on PCI Domain:0 Bus:2 Device:0 Function:0
DEVICE:0 ADAPTER:0 FRONTEND:0 (Sony CXD2820R)
FE_OFDM Fmin=42MHz Fmax=870MHz
DEVICE:0 ADAPTER:1 FRONTEND:0 (Sony CXD2820R)
FE_OFDM Fmin=42MHz Fmax=870MHz
If you don't have the lsdvb utility installed then use dmesg | grep DVB instead. Output should look like this:
[ 6.286037] DVB: registering new adapter (SAA7231 DVB External Adapter:1)
[ 6.595163] SAA7231 0000:02:00.0: DVB: registering adapter 0 frontend 0 (Sony CXD2820R)...
[ 6.609731] DVB: registering new adapter (SAA7231 DVB External Adapter:0)
[ 6.918891] SAA7231 0000:02:00.0: DVB: registering adapter 1 frontend 0 (Sony CXD2820R)...
As said, I'm using latest Linux Mint Cinnamon 17 (3.13.0-24 kernel x86_64) but I reckon this should work with most distros.
*********************************************************************
UPDATE: There is now an alternative build kindly provided by user trident01 which has all the patches pre-applied and has been tested with Linux Mint Cinnamon 17.3 using kernels up to, and including, v4.2.0-25. For more details see the posts at the end of this thread starting from post #39.
To build the drivers simply enter these four instructions from the command line (replacing the asterisks in the link):
cd /usr/src
sudo git clone h**p://www.cblinux.co.uk:5010/BGT3xxx
cd BGT3xxx
sudo ./build.sh
*********************************************************************
Finally a reboot is required to load the modules. You can then confirm adapter status using the lsdvb command. Output should look like this:
lsdvb: Simple utility to list PCI/PCIe DVB devices
Version: 0.0.4
Copyright (C) Manu Abraham
SAA7231 (1131:7231 14:3620) on PCI Domain:0 Bus:2 Device:0 Function:0
DEVICE:0 ADAPTER:0 FRONTEND:0 (Sony CXD2820R)
FE_OFDM Fmin=42MHz Fmax=870MHz
DEVICE:0 ADAPTER:1 FRONTEND:0 (Sony CXD2820R)
FE_OFDM Fmin=42MHz Fmax=870MHz
If you don't have the lsdvb utility installed then use dmesg | grep DVB instead. Output should look like this:
[ 6.286037] DVB: registering new adapter (SAA7231 DVB External Adapter:1)
[ 6.595163] SAA7231 0000:02:00.0: DVB: registering adapter 0 frontend 0 (Sony CXD2820R)...
[ 6.609731] DVB: registering new adapter (SAA7231 DVB External Adapter:0)
[ 6.918891] SAA7231 0000:02:00.0: DVB: registering adapter 1 frontend 0 (Sony CXD2820R)...
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