Getting a tv tuner card to work
 

I have a tv tuner card installed but can't seem to get it to work. It is an ATI All in Wonder Radeon 32M 4X AGP DVI-I. If anyone has been successful in making this card work, I would greatly appreciate some advice.

Thanks
Dan

Could we see the /sbin/lspci -v output please?
Good luck.

And the output of 'lsmod' too.

Do you have the ATI drivers from their website installed?

I was lost where to start on slackware to be honest, I put suse on the pc and saw what drivers it loaded, and then checked out there kernel config as in the beginning i had no clue what to do.

You will need to recompile slack's kernel for it i can tell you that. be sure to pay attention to the 'digital video for linux' section in the kernel compile.

I've got it to load drivers in slackware. Now I'm going thru hell and back to try and get software to work with it, not everyone honors the old 'DESTDIR' command. I've got audio no video tho. Most of the ATI's are supported by the linux kernel. Many of them use the brooktree chipset too so keep an eye out for that.

the kinfocenter displays mine correctly, even if drivers aren't loaded. the pci information is at least sent to KDE correctly drivers or not drivers, just as ls pci would show.

i really can't give any more info as I'm stumbling here too.

oh by the way the ATI remote wonder works beautifully in linux.

Sorry to take so long getting back. This is an ongoing project of mine at work. (I work for a local tv station) I've been trying to come up with a system to set up a TIVO like box with Linux and finally got this old micron machine to play with. It isn't connected to the network though so i'll have to get that done when I get time. I only get to work on this when nothing else is broken. I appreciate all the advise though. The info in the original post was taken from micron's site with a serial number look up. Thanks again will post more later.

Dan

Hi All,
Sorry to take so long getting back to this. I have been busy with a misbehaving transmitter.

lspci output
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 82815 815 Chipset Host Bridge and Memory Controller Hub (rev 02)
Subsystem: Intel Corporation: Unknown device 4541
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0
Memory at f8000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=64M]
Capabilities: <available only to root>

00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82815 815 Chipset AGP Bridge (rev 02) (prog-if 00 [Normal decode])
Flags: bus master, 66Mhz, fast devsel, latency 32
Bus: primary=00, secondary=02, subordinate=02, sec-latency=32
I/O behind bridge: 0000d000-0000dfff
Memory behind bridge: ff800000-ff9fffff
Prefetchable memory behind bridge: e6a00000-f6afffff

00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 PCI Bridge (rev 02) (prog-if 00 [Normal decode])
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0
Bus: primary=00, secondary=01, subordinate=01, sec-latency=32
I/O behind bridge: 0000c000-0000cfff
Memory behind bridge: ff700000-ff7fffff
Prefetchable memory behind bridge: e6900000-e69fffff

00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801BA ISA Bridge (LPC) (rev 02)
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0

00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801BA IDE U100 (rev 02) (prog-if 80 [Master])
Subsystem: Intel Corporation: Unknown device 4541
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0
I/O ports at ffa0 [size=16]

00:1f.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801BA/BAM USB (Hub #1) (rev 02) (prog-if 00 [UHCI])
Subsystem: Intel Corporation: Unknown device 4541
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 3
I/O ports at ef40 [size=32]

00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801BA/BAM SMBus (rev 02)
Subsystem: Intel Corporation: Unknown device 4541
Flags: medium devsel, IRQ 10
I/O ports at efa0 [size=16]

00:1f.4 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801BA/BAM USB (Hub #2) (rev 02) (prog-if 00 [UHCI])
Subsystem: Intel Corporation: Unknown device 4541
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 9
I/O ports at ef80 [size=32]

01:0b.0 Ethernet controller: 3Com Corporation 3c905C-TX/TX-M [Tornado] (rev 78)
Subsystem: 3Com Corporation 3C905C-TX Fast Etherlink for PC Management NIC
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 9
I/O ports at cc00 [size=128]
Memory at ff7ffc00 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=128]
Expansion ROM at ff7c0000 [disabled] [size=128K]
Capabilities: <available only to root>

01:0c.0 Multimedia audio controller: Creative Labs SB Live! EMU10k1 (rev 08)
Subsystem: Creative Labs: Unknown device 8069
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 10
I/O ports at cf80 [size=32]
Capabilities: <available only to root>

01:0c.1 Input device controller: Creative Labs SB Live! MIDI/Game Port (rev 08)
Subsystem: Creative Labs Gameport Joystick
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32
I/O ports at cff0 [size=8]
Capabilities: <available only to root>

01:0d.0 Modem: PCTel Inc HSP MicroModem 56 (rev 02) (prog-if 04 [Hayes/16750])
Subsystem: Aztech System Ltd: Unknown device 0001
Flags: medium devsel, IRQ 11
I/O ports at cf00 [size=64]
Capabilities: <available only to root>

02:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon R100 QD [Radeon 7200] (prog-if 00 [VGA])
Subsystem: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon AIW
Flags: bus master, stepping, 66Mhz, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 11
Memory at e8000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=128M]
I/O ports at d800 [size=256]
Memory at ff980000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=512K]
Expansion ROM at ff960000 [disabled] [size=128K]
Capabilities: <available only to root>

lsmod
# Dedicated Master Backend System (not used at all for viewing):

* Case: Antec Full Tower
* PSU: Antec TruePower 480W
* Motherboard: Asus P2B-DS
* CPUs: Dual Pentium III 600MHz
* RAM: 4x 256MB PC133 DIMMs (1GB of RAM is excessive, but use it if ya got it)
* Hard Drives: 7200rpm ATA/100 60GB Maxtor (for OS and live TV buffer), 7200rpm ATA/100 250GB Western Digital Caviar SE, 2x 7200rpm ATA/100 200GB Western Digital Caviar (WD drives LVM grouped for video)
* Optical Drive: Generic CD-ROM
* Video Card: nVidia TNT2
* Sound Card: none
* NIC: 3Com GbE
* Video Capture Card: Hauppauge WinTV PVR-250

I have a fresh install of Slack -current and xorg.conf set up with ati all in wonder drivers. I followed the links from ati's web site to gatos, but from the way I read they have merged the driver code into x.org.

The card will tune local stations with xawtv, but so far I have not been able to get myttv working.

edit: I don't understand why lsmod shows a hauppauge card???? Where would I look to change that??