Ubuntu Multimedia :: Pinnacle PCTV HD Usb Does Not Work?

I followed the instructions here:

[URL]

And my system would not pick up a signal at all or show any channels after scanning. But, just as proof that the system detects the device, my Virtualbox shows this device (it's name and the fact that it is a tv tuner) as one of the available USB devices when it is plugged in. (I am not saying I want to use the usb stick with Virtualbox but only that the computer recognizes it and knows what it is and can even name it correctly).

I have found and never gotten even the slightest response from the usb stick. There is never any picture or channels scanned. This is true whether I am using tvtime or kaffeine or me tv.

Both tvtime and me tv say that only dvb is supported when I try to scan for channels.

So, anyway, using the link that I gave above, I got to the point where I downloaded the drivers from here:

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and what I got was a tarball. So I extracted it to my desktop and then changed directories in a terminal to the folder that was on my desktop and then I ran make and then I ran make install. And then I rebooted.

Well... still nothing. Neither Kaffeine nor tvtime nor me tv will detect any channels nor will any picture appear and they all say that I am lacking some kind of dvb support/driver whatever.