Tvheadend

Hi everyone, this is my first ever post! Now down to business.

I've been struggling to get live tv and dvr capabilities added to my newly built htpc for four days. Seriously, I've probably taken up so much time that I'll likely fail my law school finals. But anyway, I am running ubuntu saucy, I've successfully set up xbmc, along with blu ray capabilities. I had gotten mythtv to play a channel or two (digital) on a previous mythbuntu build over the weekend on an hd homerun dual and decided that I really wanted my analog channels. Anyway, I received a new hard drive, decided to start from scratch in Ubuntu saucy since it was a new pc anyway.

In my current configuration, aside from mythtv finding no channels with my HVR 950q tuner, I did get the backend setup working. Since I could get no channels, and after some research, I tried kaffeine. It worked and even found channels, but nothing played. So I decided to try tvheadend (actually it was my first choice, but the repository for stable builds didn't have anything for saucy yet). I installed tvheadend from the unstable repository and, long story not so short, no tv adapter tab in the configuration page.

I've tried uninstalling both myth and kaf. Scantv finds channels, although it gives them all question marks and says they are unknown. It actually took me a while to get the stupid xc5000 driver to make it work at least this much. I've seen a lot of references to permissions, but I only superficially understand the concept (which user, group, etc. can read, write, execute), so there may be an issue there, although I'd need some help even figuring out if that's the problem. That having been said, from my extensive googling, I believe the issue is simply that some remnant of mythtv doesn't want to let my adapter go.

I don't know how to post terminal outputs on forums, but I'll try to provide any information you ask for, including terminal outputs if you tell me how it is done. Sorry for the superlong post, I just don't know what information may be important.