DVB-T rtl2832u

[@lex]

Hi TKaiser / Igor,

 

FYI i manually prepared a patch for devices that use rtl2832u that i think may interest you to add this patch to the build process.

 

You can patch against legacy kernel 3.4.111 and give users a chance to get their device recognized.

Sorry, i can't couple with the automated armbian process yet, i usually do the things manually.

 

I hope this can be useful (and hopefully works for someone).

 

clone here: https://github.com/avafinger/rtl2832

 

@lex

[Igor]

Thank you.

 

(kernel) Patches are simply added here: 

 

https://github.com/igorpecovnik/lib/tree/master/patch/kernel

 

I already added this to: sun4i, sun5i, sun7i and sun8i default kernel (3.4.x)

[Ford Prefect]

Hi and thanks for your good work

Having recently updated/upgraded my Armbian sdcard I can confirm that this driver works

using VLC and a DVBT *.m3u file made on Wxp.

The problem is that it should not as I have an:  /etc/modprobe.d/rtl-sdr-blacklist.conf   file

that was probably installed by gnuradio.

May be there is something wrong here ?

 

This is the return of my lsmod command:

root@orangepiplus:/etc/modprobe.d# lsmod
Module                  Size  Used by
mali_drm                2732  1
drm                   178255  2 mali_drm
mali                  123208  0
ump                    29379  3 mali
pwc                    65418  0
videobuf2_vmalloc       2336  1 pwc
videobuf2_memops        1819  1 videobuf2_vmalloc
snd_usb_audio          80300  1
snd_hwdep               5250  1 snd_usb_audio
snd_usbmidi_lib        17198  1 snd_usb_audio
snd_rawmidi            16149  1 snd_usbmidi_lib
videobuf2_core         18070  1 pwc
dvb_usb_rtl2832u      351091  0
dvb_usb                15734  1 dvb_usb_rtl2832u
dvb_core               68509  1 dvb_usb
8189es               1076034  0

 

[Igor]

It depend what is the content of /etc/modprobe.d/rtl-sdr-blacklist.conf ... and why bother if you said that driver you need, works.

[Ford Prefect]

You are absolutely right .

I discovered this blacklist system when I installed Ubuntu a few years ago.

And I was not happy as when you plug a TV dongle you expect it to be usable to watch TV.

The fact that another software could eventually use it for something else doesn't allow it

to forbid its original use.

In practice it seems that simply removing the unwanted module would do the same thing.

I read somewhere that there is a compilation choice to allow the use of the blacklist.

 

content of my unused /etc/modprobe.d/rtl-sdr-blacklist.conf :

 

# This system has librtlsdr0 installed in order to
# use digital video broadcast receivers as generic
# software defined radios.
blacklist dvb_usb_rtl28xxu
blacklist e4000
blacklist rtl2832
 

Since my last message I managed to use the dongle for software defined radio

simply by using :

rmmod dvb_usb_rtl2832u

So for  me there is no problem at all