Hi guys
I have a Media Forte PV951 with bt787 chipset and I long try to install it on my machine running on Kubuntu 5.1
After some googling I found http://www.quietglow.com/docs/ubuntumythtv.html guide to install a similar tv card on kubuntu and frustratedly I can't install the modules for my kernel (I think I need more practice and patience there)

The issue is when I launch kooka, it recongnises my tv card as scanner and in the preview page I can see the tv input (the snowy page) and that makes me wonder if my TV card's modules being already installed in 2.6 kernel?
Any Idea?
Thanks

are the drivers installed for the card correctly?

bt878 is all i know, never hear of 787... regardeless they *should* be compatable.

yes your kernel prob already has video for tv, or is being called up separetly.. unless you've changed it.

good luck, lettuce know.

- How can I test whether drivers have been installed?
-Chipset could be bt878, I wrote bt787 referring to my overclocked memory :-)
-I haven't changed anything in the kernel as far as I remember, this is a newely installed kernel so should be alrite.
In my /dev I have /dev/video0 this is the one that kooka picks up but for some reason nothing being displayed on the xawtv or mythtv.
-is there any other way rather than kooka, I can test /dev/video0 output?

if xawtv doesn't work, then none of the others will (probably).

you need to look for the drivers from your repositories (yast, or up2date) or the manufacturers website.

sometimes people write better drivers than these however, so use the search engine to look.

again, are you sure this card is 'linux' compatible??

Thanx for all the replies. I got the card working and I can see a non-tuned screen on mythtv, my best guess is bt878 chipset drivers were already included among the kernel modules.
Now, I've got to work on how to tune the channels.
The steps I took to get there was:
- get the mythtvbackend working (most important)
- install grab_tv_au (aussie users are deprived from having the software as part of the package)
- get a list of all the channels and update the DB (mythfilldatabase)

And if anyone has any idea on tuning the channels post a reply.