acid_kewpie

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superb compatability all round through the bttv driver. works totally generically and required no special options to be passed to the driver. Output was better quality and more reliable than Hauppage's own win32 drivers under 98 last time i tried it.

1kyle

KWINTV worked staright away on SUSE 9.0

I'm only posting this as the OLD versions which have the Bt878 chip and use the BTTV driver work fine. but the newer versions of this product use another chip -- I don't know what it is but it doesn't work with the older drivers so ensure you have the correct driver for your product.

sithscripter

AFAIK all the WinTV-Go cards use the Brooktree 878 chipset, but with different TV tuner modules, not all of which are identified automatically. Check the BTTV HOW-TO for more information. For example, I had a TAPC-H701P tuner so I added the following line to /etc/modprobe.conf:

option bttv tuner=39

A bit of a pain but in the end everything worked. Not bad for ye olde $20 computer-show special.

RHLinuxGUY

This was an excellent choice for me. I had my doubts because of the lack of information on tv tuner cards (or it could be lack of knowledge of the informatino available on my part). Finding information on a specific card that your eye is on, is a pain, and I wish to help whoever is taking a gander at this Happauge video tuner card with the information they want/need to aquire, so they don't have to have so many headaches. The driver module that is needed is the bttv driver, it is usualy (supposedly) already enabled on most every stock kernel that you may come across. Drivers for Bt8x8-based hardware (which the WinTV GO has) have been a part of the Linux kernel since version 2.2.0, unless you compiled a custom kernel in which look at the bottom for more detailed explanation on how to get it running. If it is not already running, go into a console and get into root (by typing "su" without the quotes, and typing in your root password) and type "lsmod", if you do not see bttv somewhere within the results of lsmod, then type modprobe bttv. It should be running now, at this point, I suggests you use the tv output program of your choice. From my experience, xawtv was usualy always a standard tv program found on most of my distros, until just recently. kdetv has a nice little wizard to set up your tv card, but it did not find all of my channels. (I have played with for a couple days since I got my WinTV GO) Actualy it only found 29 of my 100+ channels, so I droped it in favor of tvtime. (http://tvtime.sourceforge.net/)
xawtv does not function for an x failed request... so I used the above. At this point you should be able to get it running by reading the help/faq found at the tvtime's web site. If you would like more in depth information setting up a bttv video card (if for or not for the WinTV GO) then head on over to http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/BTTV/hw.html. If need more information on anything regarding tv tuner cards, or if I made mistake (which I am sure I did, isn't that assuring of my howto's accuracy ;] ), please send me a pm and I'll do my best to answer your question and/or fix my mistake.