[H-GEN] TV tuner for Linux

[Tony Nugent]

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On Tue Aug 26 2003 at 12:34, Paul Cornford wrote:

> I have been offered a Pixelview Play TV HD tuner for my Athlon 800.
> Seeing I am running only Linux RH8 is there any point in installing this
> piece of hardware?

If the chipset on the tuner card[1] is supported by linux[2], then
you are in luck.

  [1] see the output of "lspci" or "cat /proc/pci"
  [2] see if the card/chipset is listed in the file:
      /usr/src/linux/Documentation/video4linux/bttv/Cards

If it is (and a whole stack of pixelview cards with various chipsets
are indeed listed), then you already have support for the card...
simply load the appropriate i2c and bttv drivers, then run (and
configure) xawtv (and similar v4l apps).

If your particular chipset isn't listed (eg, a recent philips saa
model), then visit http://www.bytesex.org/ to see if a development
driver for your 2.4.x kernel is available (you should be able to
compile these drivers against the sources of your currently running
kernel).

If the card also has an FM radio tuner, that's a bonus, since the
/usr/bin/radio utility will work with it too.

BTW if you haven't already done it, I would recommend that you also
set up your i2c sensors modules with the sensors-detect utility when
you start playing around with this.  (Don't panic if your m'board's
chipset is not fully supported).

Have fun!

> The manufacturer doesn't offer any linux drivers.

Usual story... they don't, but linux has (or will have) its own
drivers :)

> Paul Cornford

Cheers
Tony

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