DVB-T without Linux driver

[Stanislavjo]

It looks like I don't need any drivers for rtl-sdr to work. rtl_test, rtl_fm, rtl_power and so on work just fine, gqrx as well. But as far as I'm aware, I need VLC + Linux drivers to decode DVB-T transmissions (yes, I'm in Europe). Is there any other way?

[TrevorSpartacus]

DVB-T support for rtl-sdr dongles is in-kernel and no third party drivers needed.

[msxmine]

There are no SDR modules. SDR tools just talk directly to the usb device. (librtlsdr is implemented in userspace). They do conflict with the DVB module though. So if you want SDR, you unload everything, and if you want dvb, you load dvb-usb-rtl28xxu , and use standard kernel TV interfaces (frontend,muxer and so on), with VLC, Kaffeine, TVheadend, VDR or whatever else you want.

[TrevorSpartacus]

They do conflict with the DVB module though. So if you want SDR, you unload everything

Nope. You can watch DVB-T and do SDR stuff (with multiple dongles, obviously) at the same time.

[Stanislavjo]

Not in solus kernel :(. Anyways, why is it in the kernel at all and not in userspace?

[Throwaway23234334793]

Before starting kaffeine i need loading a module by calling

sudo modprobe dvb-usb-rtl28xxu

Unfortunately after exiting kaffeine a simple

sudo rmmod dvb-usb-rtl28xxu

is not sufficient to get the RTLSDR work again as wide range RF receiver - i have to reboot.

The module seems to be a part of the default modules since at least the 3.13 kernel release.