Well whilst I continues to try resolving my sound problem I figure I might as well ask about my TV card problem.
My tv card is recognised

Vendor: ‎Hauppauge

Bus: ‎PCI

Bus identification: ‎14f1:8800:70:3400

Location on the bus: ‎2:b:0

Description: ‎WinTV PCI card (88x chip based)

Module: ‎cx8800

Media class: ‎MULTIMEDIA_VIDEO

but when I try to run xawtv I get this message

xawtv
This is xawtv-3.88, running on Linux/i686 (2.4.22-1mdk)
can't open /dev/v4l/video0: No such file or directory
v4l-conf had some trouble, trying to continue anyway
v4l2: open /dev/v4l/video0: No such file or directory
v4l2: open /dev/v4l/video0: No such file or directory
v4l: open /dev/v4l/video0: No such file or directory
no video grabber device available

Now I have no scooby what this means...suprisingly at least it is telling me something which is better than u know what...hehe

You have the standard kernel installed (didn't compile your own?)

Was the tv board in there while you installed Mandrake?

If no, the easiest way may be to reinstall, that's the way I got it to work when I first added my hauppage card.

Otherwise, try this:
su
cd /dev/v4l
ls -l

and post the results.

ok thanks Im gonna give your last a go, my tv card was in already when i installed for your information.

Also, are you using the xawtv included with mandrake, or some other version?

Ok this was my result with
su
cd /dev/v4l
ls -l

cd /dev/v4l
bash: cd: /dev/v4l: No such file or directory

im using mandrakes own version i assume

cd /dev/v4l
bash: cd: /dev/v4l: No such file or directory

What does this mean...did MDK not create this directory on installation or is it something I need to create?

Any help please.

ikoni,

try xawtv -c /dev/video0

If that doesn't work, try: xawtv -hwscan
That should list any video devices it finds.

/b

Booster,

I have the same problem as ikoni, and i am also trying to setup matrox marvel g200tv.

when i typed the command you suggested, "xawtv -c /dev/video0", i got the following:

This is xawtv-3.88, running on Linux/i686 (2.4.21-0.13mdk)
can't open /dev/v4l/video0: No such file or directory
v4l-conf had some trouble, trying to continue anyway
v4l2: open /dev/v4l/video0: No such file or directory
v4l2: open /dev/v4l/video0: No such file or directory
v4l: open /dev/v4l/video0: No such file or directory
no video grabber device available

and then when i typed "xawtv -hwscan", i got:

looking for avaliable devices
port 69-69
type : Xvideo, image scaler
name: Matrox G-Series Backend Scaler

Please help...stuck

i have the same wintv card with the cx88 chipset

i have installed the drivers, reinstalled mandrake 9.2 three times and tried redhat9 and slackware 9.1

not one of these methods helped

i recompiled the mandrake kernel with the drivers included

this also didn't work

i am currently using windows most of the time in order to use the card

the so called tutorial on the hauppauge site is usless, and only applies to rh9 and suse9

grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
dissappointed

Salparadise,

You are not alone. Having done a fair bit of research on this card and linux I have yet to find anyone who has successfully got this to work, I managed to shaft my kernel in slackware the other day trying to install the cx88 modules. Some say kernel 2.6 has support for this card but I'm not holding my breath. What annoys me more than anything is the number of posts there are refering to how good the card is under linux but unfortunately thats using the bttv chipset.

My Hauppauge WinTV model 401 was trivially easy to setup using Mandrake Control Center... but it uses the older 878 chip. I assume at least one person has gotten the newer card to work; the person who wrote the driver: http://bytesex.org/v4l/build.html

He doesn't mention anything about the 2.6 kernel but says that 2.4.23 through 2.5.x should be ready to go. Unfortunately, Mandrake 9.2 comes with 2.4.22, so maybe that's your problem.

Yes, cx88 driver is now part of 2.6.2 kernel, I've tried to compile it for my mandrake 9.2, and xawtv ALMOST works. I tried :

modprobe cx8800

and then dmesg returns me a beautifull :

Linux video capture interface: v1.00
cx2388x v4l2 driver version 0.0.1 loaded
cx8800[0]: found at 0000:01:06.0, rev: 3, irq: 9, latency: 32, mmio: 0xe8000000
cx8800[0]: subsystem: 0070:3401, board: Hauppauge WinTV 34xxx models [card=1,aut odetected]
cx8800[0]: hauppauge eeprom: model=34706, tuner=Philips FI1216MF MK2 (3), radio= no
tuner: chip found @ 0xc2
tuner: type set to 3 (Philips (SECAM+PAL_BG) (FI1216MF, FM1216MF, FR1216MF))
cx8800[0]: i2c attach [client=Philips (SECAM+PAL_BG) (FI1216MF, FM1216MF, FR121]
tuner: type already set (3)
cx8800[0]: registered device video0 [v4l2]
cx8800[0]: set_audio_standard_BTSC() [TODO]

the only (and big) problem is when I launch xawtv it totaly freezes my system, even
ctrl/alt/F3 or whatever you want don't work, hard reboot is needed.
I guess I should now look at xfree config.
Any suggestion ?

well

i got mandrake 10 beta1 installed on an old dell p2 350 and put the tv card in - no result

however

i haven't yet tried to install the cx88 drivers on it

being less technical than this task requires I was kind of waiting for a distro with the appropriate drivers so I can sort it that way

and the telly schedules in the UK at the moment are laughable

(or am i just getting older???)


this is the last obstacle to win-doh's being removed

one day,
oh yes one day...

well

i got mandrake 10 beta1 installed on an old dell p2 350 and put the tv card in - no result

however

i haven't yet tried to install the cx88 drivers on it

being less technical than this task requires I was kind of waiting for a distro with the appropriate drivers so I can sort it that way

and the telly schedules in the UK at the moment are laughable

(or am i just getting older???)


this is the last obstacle to win-doh's being removed

one day,
oh yes one day...