SuSE 8.2 & PCI TV tuner cards

From: Anthony Edwards (usenet_at_catfish.nildram.co.uk)
Date: 04/01/04 

Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2004 23:17:15 -0000

I have recently purchased a Dell Dimension 4600 on which SuSE 8.2
installs extremely easily. Unfortunately however, not owning a
conventional television (and having no intention of purchasing one),
I rely on a Hauppauge WinTV-GO card in my existing PC with KWinTV to
watch television.

I also purchased a new WinTV-GO card to be installed in the new Dell.
The box claims that the card is a Model 607, however a sticker has
been placed over the model number in one location replacing "607"
with 612. Having installed the card, the operating system recognises
that the card exists; the output of lspci-v run as root:

00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corp.: Unknown device 2570 (rev 02)
        Subsystem: Dell Computer Corporation: Unknown device 0174
        Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0
        Memory at e8000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=128M]
        Capabilities: [e4] #09 [0106]
        Capabilities: [a0] AGP version 3.0

00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp.: Unknown device 2571 (rev 02) (prog-if 00 [Normal decode])
        Flags: bus master, 66Mhz, fast devsel, latency 64
        Bus: primary=00, secondary=01, subordinate=01, sec-latency=64
        Memory behind bridge: fd000000-feafffff
        Prefetchable memory behind bridge: f0000000-f7ffffff

00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corp.: Unknown device 24d2 (rev 02) (prog-if 00 [UHCI])
        Subsystem: Dell Computer Corporation: Unknown device 0174
        Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 11
        I/O ports at ff80 [size=32]

00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corp.: Unknown device 24d4 (rev 02) (prog-if 00 [UHCI])
        Subsystem: Dell Computer Corporation: Unknown device 0174
        Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 10
        I/O ports at ff60 [size=32]

00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corp.: Unknown device 24d7 (rev 02) (prog-if 00 [UHCI])
        Subsystem: Dell Computer Corporation: Unknown device 0174
        Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 9
        I/O ports at ff40 [size=32]

00:1d.3 USB Controller: Intel Corp.: Unknown device 24de (rev 02) (prog-if 00 [UHCI])
        Subsystem: Dell Computer Corporation: Unknown device 0174
        Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 11
        I/O ports at ff20 [size=32]

00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corp.: Unknown device 24dd (rev 02) (prog-if 20 [EHCI])
        Subsystem: Dell Computer Corporation: Unknown device 0174
        Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 5
        Memory at ffa80800 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=1K]
        Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 2
        Capabilities: [58] #0a [20a0]

00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 82801BA/CA/DB PCI Bridge (rev c2) (prog-if 00 [Normal decode])
        Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0
        Bus: primary=00, secondary=02, subordinate=02, sec-latency=32
        I/O behind bridge: 0000d000-0000dfff
        Memory behind bridge: faf00000-fcffffff

00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corp.: Unknown device 24d0 (rev 02)
        Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0

00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corp.: Unknown device 24db (rev 02) (prog-if 8a [Master SecP PriP])
        Subsystem: Dell Computer Corporation: Unknown device 0174
        Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 9
        I/O ports at <ignored>
        I/O ports at <ignored>
        I/O ports at <ignored>
        I/O ports at <ignored>
        I/O ports at ffa0 [size=16]
        Memory at febffc00 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=1K]

00:1f.2 IDE interface: Intel Corp.: Unknown device 24d1 (rev 02) (prog-if 8f [Master SecP SecO PriP PriO])
        Subsystem: Dell Computer Corporation: Unknown device 0174
        Flags: bus master, 66Mhz, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 9
        I/O ports at fe00 [size=8]
        I/O ports at fe10 [size=4]
        I/O ports at fe20 [size=8]
        I/O ports at fe30 [size=4]
        I/O ports at fea0 [size=16]

00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corp.: Unknown device 24d3 (rev 02)
        Subsystem: Dell Computer Corporation: Unknown device 0174
        Flags: medium devsel, IRQ 3
        I/O ports at efe0 [size=32]

01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation: Unknown device 0322 (rev a1) (prog-if 00 [VGA])
        Subsystem: nVidia Corporation: Unknown device 01b9
        Flags: bus master, 66Mhz, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 11
        Memory at fd000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16M]
        Memory at f0000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=128M]
        Expansion ROM at fea00000 [disabled] [size=128K]
        Capabilities: [60] Power Management version 2
        Capabilities: [44] AGP version 3.0

02:00.0 Multimedia audio controller: Creative Labs [SB Live! Value] EMU10k1X
        Subsystem: Creative Labs: Unknown device 1003
        Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 10
        I/O ports at df20 [size=32]
        Capabilities: [dc] Power Management version 2

02:00.1 Input device controller: Creative Labs [SB Live! Value] Input device controller
        Subsystem: Creative Labs: Unknown device 1003
        Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64
        I/O ports at df18 [size=8]
        Capabilities: [dc] Power Management version 2

02:01.0 Multimedia video controller: Conexant: Unknown device 8800 (rev 03)
        Subsystem: Hauppauge computer works Inc.: Unknown device 3401
        Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 5
        Memory at fb000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16M]
        Capabilities: [44] Vital Product Data
        Capabilities: [4c] Power Management version 2

02:01.1 Multimedia controller: Conexant: Unknown device 8811 (rev 03)
        Subsystem: Hauppauge computer works Inc.: Unknown device 3401
        Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 5
        Memory at fc000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16M]
        Capabilities: [44] Vital Product Data
        Capabilities: [4c] Power Management version 2

02:08.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corp.: Unknown device 1050 (rev 02)
        Subsystem: Dell Computer Corporation: Unknown device 0174
        Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 3
        Memory at fafff000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
        I/O ports at df40 [size=64]
        Capabilities: [dc] Power Management version 2

However, SuSE 8.2 does not recognise the card at installation time,
and when I attempt to configure it manually using YaST2, I am given
the option of configuring it as a Hauppauge (bt848), Hauppauge
(bt878), Hauppauge WinCam newer (bt878) or Hauppauge WinTV PVR.
I have spent a good deal of time experimenting with each option,
but none of these work.

I understand from Googling that Linux in general has difficulty with
some of the more recent Hauppauge products. My question is, are there
any other currently available PCI TV tuners that SuSE 8.2 (or 9.0)
supports (perhaps not officially, as none appear to be listed in the
hardware database, but that folk have found to work)?

Unfortunately, installing the card from my old machine into my new one
does not appear to be an option since the card in the old machine has
been installed for so long that it has developed a marked curvature in
its position in the old machine's PCI slot, and although I did attempt
to swap it over earlier this evening, I came to the conclusion that the
degree of bending of the card required to install it in the new machine
may possibly break it, leaving me with no machine that works as as a TV
viewing device (I am decommissioning the Dell for now and re-installing
my old machine at my home office desk until such time as the TV tuner
issue is resolved).

TIA. 

-- 
Anthony Edwards
anthony@catfish.nildram.co.uk

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