TV card on Mandrake

[VHockey86]

Alright so I've got a Winfast 2000 XP deluxe TV tuner card that works great on windows

I decided to play around with linux a little bit and am now dual-booting win XP and Mandrake 9.1

I went into the Mandrake Control center, then to hardware and then the "TVDrake" utility. It autodetects my TV card to something Ive never even heard of, some "brooktree corporation" card. So I went into the configuration where it lists all the cards. Now it says "select the card model to "force" linux to use this," however when I select it and press OK, nothing changes.

When I get done trying to select the card it scans all the TV channels and finds no stations, at all. Granted I'm on satelite, so the only channle that would have anything is 3, but it works fine in windows this way.

XawTV just shows a blue screen, and when i try to go into the channel editor, it wont let me input any numbers for the channel

Anyone have any ideas how to get this to work?

[Peter M]

Brooktree is the original manufacturer of the ususal suspect range of video decoder chips, the BT848/A and 878/A/879 series.

Now this is just the video part. You got at least a certain tuner chip on that card too, as well as maybe a stereo audio auxiliary chip and maybe a radio tuner too.

Many TV card manufacturers have been lazy and haven't been putting a proper card ("subsystem") ID into the chip, so the card can't be autodetected.

In this case, you need to tell the bttv driver a few parameters if it doesn't autodetect the card correctly.

Read the bttv instructions to find the card # and/or tuner options, and put the correct parameters into /etc/modules.conf.

bytesex.org/bttv is the driver's home page.

In modules.conf you should then do something like

options bttv card=56 radio=1
options tuner type=5

(This for my FlyVideo98FM PAL card here in my box. Yours will require different stuff.)