TV tuner pci cards on FC2

[Peter Reed]

Nigel Henry wrote:
> I spent most of yesterday afternoon googling for info on supported TV tuner 
> cards. From http://www.grosbill.com I found three analog cards within my 
> price range.
> Card1:
> Avermedia AVerTV GO 007 plus/fm plus. This card according to the Avermedia 
> site uses the Philips TDA8275 chipset.
> http://www.linuxtv.org/v4lwiki/index.php/CARDLIST.saa7134  shows a variant of 
> this card, #57 that uses the saa7134 chipset.  
> FC2's /lib/modules/2.6.11-0.3.rdt.rhfc2.ccrma/kernel/drivers/media/video has 
> a directory with drivers for the saa7134, but the only TDA drivers are:
> tda7432.ko, tda9840.ko, tda9875.ko, and tda9887.ko. 
> 
> Does anyone know if this card is likely to work if it isn't using the exact 
> driver required? 
> 
> Card2:
> Pinnacle PCTV Analog PCI
> Can't find any chipset info on this one from Pinnaclesys site.
> 
> Anyone know if this card is supported?
> 
> Card3:
> Terratec Cinergy 250 PCI
> This uses, according to the Terratec site the Philips saa-7134 chipset, but 
> isn't specifically listed at the link for saa7134 supported cards above.
> 
> Any one knows if this works ok?
> 
> Accepting that one of these cards has a suitable driver in the kernel, are 
> there additional packages I need to install in order to play TV on the Linux 
> box with FC2?
> 
> Thanks in advance.
> 
> Nigel.
> 
> 
> 
> 
Tvtime as an application is probably the best for viewing tv on Linux. 
I do not know about the above cards but I use an ATI pci tuner card that 
works fine.
Peter