tv card

[Christopher Chan]

Chadley Wilson wrote:
> On Wed, 2004-05-26 at 06:44, Gordy Campbell wrote:
> 
>>Hi All,
>>
>>I am quite new to Linux and was wondering whether or not I could get my
>>TV card working in FC2?
>>
>>The TV card is a Wintv pci nova. I ran the hardware wizard and that
>>tells me that the manufacturer is Philips Semiconductors and it has
>>installed a driver called nuget-ci.
>>
>>I have tried running TVtimes i get a message saying 'no video source'
>>and a message saying, 'cannot open video device /dev/video0

dmesg. Maybe the driver had some problems. eg: I cannot use the DC10 I 
have because my mobo is a blinking VIA (KT266A) chipset.

I am just happy the PCTV works at all.
>>
>>Anyone got any ideas,
>>
>>Gordy
> 
> Hi Gordy 
> Although there are ways and means of getting the the card working it is
> a bit of a tricky situation.
> If you are running FC1 you are in a spot because you will probably have
> to add v4l (video 4 linux), I found it very difficult and expensive when
> you use a modem connection.

add? v4l is available already on RH9.

I have a Miro PCTV and it works out of the box.