Hello all. About 2 months ago, I dumped Windows entirely and went to Mandrake 9.0. I'm very happy, but my machine has become and internet/office machine. I used to be into gaming, but quickly out grew that phase. Now, I want to have a multimedia box. Using Xine with css plug-ins and Xmms, I'm pretty sure this won't be hard to do. The only thing I have left to do is the hardware.

I'm looking at getting a FM tuner + TV tuner all in one card. I'm currently looking at the Hauppage WinTV-radio card model 401. I've searched all over and cannot find a modern list of linux compatable cards. Does anybody have any information on which cards will work? The only lists I can find have very old hardware that won't meet my needs.

Thanx in advance.

Also, do these WinTV cards require the usual linux "voodoo" to get them to work, or are they pretty much PnP? By voodoo I mean the extreme hassle of compiling drivers and re-compiling the kernel.

"usual"??? no way! no the wintv go cardset are based on the EXTREMELY generic bt878 chip, and use the rock solid bttv driver. you may have to tell the system what the exact card is via modules.conf but haupage being who they are are normally assumed as a default. if you have your kernel source installed then you should have a CARDLIST file in there somewhere with the ID's for the supported cards. this was discussed a bit last week, have a search for me talking about bttv

oh and seriously, do yourself a favour.. http://mplayerhq.hu SO much better than Xine. no really.