TV tuner pci cards on FC2

[Kostas Sfakiotakis]

Greetings Nigel ,

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.

Hmm.. Well this one smells suspicious . I have a Studio PCTV from 
Pinnacle which
is constantly working perfectly since the Fedora Core 1 age . Since you are
running Fedora Core 2 then that means that you have a 2.6 kernel , in 
other words there
is a 90% possibility that the above named card will work perfectly . The 
thing you need
to search for is Bt848A ( not Bt878, it's newer ) . The 2.6 kernels 
already have the
apropriate module  . So you just have to compile it ( the module for 
Bt848 ) and you
are ready . There stands a chance though that you will need a line saying

options card=xx tuner=yy  ( in order to specify the exact card and tuner 
that you have ) .
Well if we have compatible cards then xx=39 . I can't tell you about the 
tuner though
because you mail sounds french ( therefore you use SECAM there and not 
PAL , in
other words i would give you a wrong value )

>
>  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?

Well the thing that you have to learn first is , the chipset that your
card is using . Now if  the driver is found you only have to compile
video4linux support and the module for the tv card and you are ready
with them .

I have never used Fedora Core 2 , so i don't know if it has any  TV 
Application .
Personally i use XawTv

> linux.bytesex.org/*xawtv*/


Regards,
 Kostas