The distribution I use is Knoppmyth. I don't use a special antenna - an 
old set of rabbit ears works fine for me. The pcHDTV site has utilities 
for download that will scan channels and show signal strength (dtvscan 
and dtvsignal I believe). Try those out to see if you are receiving. 
There is also the dvb-utils package, which does the same kind of stuff.

They recommend using the DVB drivers for the HD-3000, so you run dtvscan 
something like

    #dtvscan -dvb 0

In myth-setup when specifying the capture card, specify DVB, not the one 
that says HD2000/HD3000.

Patrick McCabe


Nick Traxler wrote:
> I have an HD-3000 too, but I've had some trouble getting it working in 
> Ubuntu. I've been able to view NTSC with my old bunny ears, but can you 
> post some more info about your setup? Specifically, do you use an HD 
> antenna, and which Linux distribution and HD viewer do you run?
> 
> Thanks for the info,
> Nick
> 
> Patrick McCabe wrote:
> 
>>I am using a pcHDTV HD-3000 and it works well. It's around $175 now I think.
>>Use the DVB drivers. My 42-inch plasma has a VGA input and a 1024x768 native
>>resolution, so setting up X11 was easy. When my DVI-to-HDMI cable shows up I
>>will try that. I am using an NVIDIA 6200 video card; I get some hiccups when
>>watching an HDTV program with the on-screen info overlayed, but I may be
>>able to fix that with some tweaking. I've only had this running for a couple
>>weeks.
>>
>>There is also an Air2PC card that people are using, but I have no experience
>>with it.
>>
>>Patrick McCabe
> 
> 
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