Telling FC 5 what TV Tuner I have
 

Good Evening...

I'm trying to get my tv tuner card working with Fedora Core 5. I think I need to use insmod or modprobe, but I don't know how. Whatever I try is just silently ignored, or it says stuff about not being able to find the file.

My dmesg says the following, and my card is right there as #4, the ATI TV Wonder Pro. Please help:

dmesg:
...
Linux video capture interface: v1.00
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:01:08.0[A] -> GSI 20 (level, low) -> IRQ 20
e100: eth0: e100_probe: addr 0xfeaff000, irq 20, MAC addr 00:13:20:16:81:0A
usb 1-2: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 3
usb 1-2: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
cx2388x v4l2 driver version 0.0.5 loaded
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:01:01.0[A] -> GSI 22 (level, low) -> IRQ 21
cx88[0]: Your board isn't known (yet) to the driver. You can
cx88[0]: try to pick one of the existing card configs via
cx88[0]: card=<n> insmod option. Updating to the latest
cx88[0]: version might help as well.
cx88[0]: Here is a list of valid choices for the card=<n> insmod option:
cx88[0]: card=0 -> UNKNOWN/GENERIC
cx88[0]: card=1 -> Hauppauge WinTV 34xxx models
cx88[0]: card=2 -> GDI Black Gold
cx88[0]: card=3 -> PixelView
cx88[0]: card=4 -> ATI TV Wonder Pro
cx88[0]: card=5 -> Leadtek Winfast 2000XP Expert
cx88[0]: card=6 -> AverTV Studio 303 (M126)
cx88[0]: card=7 -> MSI TV-@nywhere Master
cx88[0]: card=8 -> Leadtek Winfast DV2000
cx88[0]: card=9 -> Leadtek PVR 2000
cx88[0]: card=10 -> IODATA GV-VCP3/PCI
cx88[0]: card=11 -> Prolink PlayTV PVR
cx88[0]: card=12 -> ASUS PVR-416
cx88[0]: card=13 -> MSI TV-@nywhere
cx88[0]: card=14 -> KWorld/VStream XPert DVB-T
cx88[0]: card=15 -> DViCO FusionHDTV DVB-T1
cx88[0]: card=16 -> KWorld LTV883RF
cx88[0]: card=17 -> DViCO FusionHDTV 3 Gold-Q
cx88[0]: card=18 -> Hauppauge Nova-T DVB-T
cx88[0]: card=19 -> Conexant DVB-T reference design
cx88[0]: card=20 -> Provideo PV259
cx88[0]: card=21 -> DViCO FusionHDTV DVB-T Plus
cx88[0]: card=22 -> pcHDTV HD3000 HDTV
cx88[0]: card=23 -> digitalnow DNTV Live! DVB-T
cx88[0]: card=24 -> Hauppauge WinTV 28xxx (Roslyn) models
cx88[0]: card=25 -> Digital-Logic MICROSPACE Entertainment Center (MEC)
cx88[0]: card=26 -> IODATA GV/BCTV7E
cx88[0]: card=27 -> PixelView PlayTV Ultra Pro (Stereo)
cx88[0]: card=28 -> DViCO FusionHDTV 3 Gold-T
cx88[0]: card=29 -> ADS Tech Instant TV DVB-T PCI
cx88[0]: card=30 -> TerraTec Cinergy 1400 DVB-T
cx88[0]: card=31 -> DViCO FusionHDTV 5 Gold
cx88[0]: card=32 -> AverMedia UltraTV Media Center PCI 550
cx88[0]: card=33 -> Kworld V-Stream Xpert DVD
cx88[0]: card=34 -> ATI HDTV Wonder
cx88[0]: card=35 -> WinFast DTV1000-T
cx88[0]: card=36 -> AVerTV 303 (M126)
cx88[0]: card=37 -> Hauppauge Nova-S-Plus DVB-S
cx88[0]: card=38 -> Hauppauge Nova-SE2 DVB-S
cx88[0]: card=39 -> KWorld DVB-S 100
cx88[0]: card=40 -> Hauppauge WinTV-HVR1100 DVB-T/Hybrid
cx88[0]: card=41 -> Hauppauge WinTV-HVR1100 DVB-T/Hybrid (Low Profile)
cx88[0]: card=42 -> digitalnow DNTV Live! DVB-T Pro
cx88[0]: card=43 -> KWorld/VStream XPert DVB-T with cx22702
cx88[0]: card=44 -> DViCO FusionHDTV DVB-T Dual Digital
CORE cx88[0]: subsystem: 1002:00f9, board: UNKNOWN/GENERIC [card=0,autodetected]
TV tuner -1 at 0x1fe, Radio tuner -1 at 0x1fe
SCSI subsystem initialized
Initializing USB Mass Storage driver...
cx88[0]/0: found at 0000:01:01.0, rev: 5, irq: 21, latency: 64, mmio: 0xfd000000
tuner 1-0060: All bytes are equal. It is not a TEA5767
tuner 1-0060: chip found @ 0xc0 (cx88[0])
usb 1-4: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 4
cx88[0]/0: registered device video0 [v4l2]
cx88[0]/0: registered device vbi0
tuner 1-0060: tuner type not set

In case someone else has the same problem, here's how I solved it:

I added the following line to /etc/modprobe.conf:
options cx88xx card=4

Then, dmesg looks like:
cx2388x v4l2 driver version 0.0.5 loaded
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:01:01.0[A] -> GSI 22 (level, low) -> IRQ 21
CORE cx88[0]: subsystem: 1002:00f9, board: ATI TV Wonder Pro [card=4,insmod opti
on]
TV tuner 44 at 0x1fe, Radio tuner -1 at 0x1fe
cx88[0]/0: found at 0000:01:01.0, rev: 5, irq: 21, latency: 64, mmio: 0xfd000000
tuner 1-0060: All bytes are equal. It is not a TEA5767
tuner 1-0060: chip found @ 0xc0 (cx88[0])
tuner 1-0060: type set to 44 (Philips 4 in 1 (ATI TV Wonder Pro/Conexant))
cx88[0]/0: registered device video0 [v4l2]
cx88[0]/0: registered device vbi0

:)

Thanks, fstab!

I will have to do this same thing to get my own TV tuner working in FC 5, but I had no idea how to begin. Your posts above will help me.