Re: [gqrx] Need help getting started

[Alexandru Csete]

You have to press the "play" button to start. If you already did and
nothing happens, run gqrx from the terminal to see if there are any
errors.

Alex

On Sat, Oct 21, 2017 at 3:36 PM, cat22 <erben...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
> I bought the NooelecR820T2 SDR Dongle. I'm in Opensuse Linux (Leap 42.3).
> I have gqrx 2.8 up and running, the antenna is hooked to the dongle, the
> dongle in
> plugged into my USB port and the dongle light is on.
> In gqrx I slected the device form the I/O thingy Realtek RTL2838UHIDR
> SN:0000001
> lsmod shows this:
> [code]
> # lsmod|grep rtl
> rtl2832_sdr 36864 0
> videobuf2_vmalloc 16384 1 rtl2832_sdr
> videobuf2_v4l2 24576 1 rtl2832_sdr
> videobuf2_core 40960 2 rtl2832_sdr,videobuf2_v4l2
> rtl2832 24576 1
> dvb_usb_rtl28xxu 40960 1
> dvb_usb_v2 40960 1 dvb_usb_rtl28xxu
> btrtl 16384 1 btusb
> bluetooth 512000 41 btrtl,btintel,bnep,btbcm,rfcomm,btusb
> usbcore 241664 10
> usbhid,ehci_hcd,xhci_pci,dvb_usb_v2,rtl2832_sdr,btusb,dvb_usb_rtl28xxu,xhci_hcd,ehci_pci
> [/code]
>
> lsusb shows:
> [code]
> Bus 006 Device 007: ID 0bda:2838 Realtek Semiconductor Corp. RTL2838 DVB-T
> [/code]
>
>
> But nothing happens. gqrc is silent, no waterfall motion, nada
> What am I missing?
>
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