Re: TV Cards

[James Fidell <james@xxxxxxx>]

Quoting Bruno Prior (bruno@xxxxxxx):

> I have been struggling to get the Hauppauge Nova-T (digital tuner)
working
> under linux. I sent a message to the linux-dvb list suggesting that
linux
> wasn't much good at this sort of thing, and someone who seemed to know
a
> thing or two wrote a reply including the following comment:
>
> "you are hopefully aware that with that other glory OS you still
> have major trouble if your Hauppauge TV-card (not DVB) shares an
> interrupt with other cards, same is true for ISDN cards."

I have one of these, too.  I don't have it working yet, but I think
that may be more to do with reception than with the card itself.
Can linux see the card at all when it's plugged in and you load the
relevant drivers?

> No idea if this is true - the only analogue TV tuner I have tried is
an ATI
> All-In-Wonder Pro, and I have had as much success with that on linux
as I
> have with the Nova-T. Have to say, the picture from the AIW was quite
> reasonable on Windows, before I ditched it. If only I hated Microsoft
a
> little less....

I'm fairly sure there are people using the ATI card under linux without
any problems, though I believe you need a new driver for it.

James