[ale] TV tuner card problem

[Jim Philips]

On Friday 07 May 2004 23:29, ChangingLINKS.com wrote:
> I have been soooo spoiled by Suse 8.1-9.0 that my current problems
> amplified.
>
> I thought that Hauppauge TV cards were compatible with Linux, so I bought
> one. A WinTV-250 PVR. To my surprise, it was not automatically detected. I
> manually added it using Yast2, but it still didn't work.
>
> As I did more digging, I learned that I need something called bttv compiled
> in the kernel (I think). I have searched for this "bttv" and have not been
> successful. Moreover, it is NOT available as a package in Yast2.

When I look on my own box, I see:

/usr/src/linux-2.4.22/Documentation/video4linux/bttv

Looks like a good place to start. And building your own kernel is good 
experience to have. You can't "break" anything permanently. You just have to 
rebuild a few times to get it right. Once you have a config that works for 
you, you save it. Then your work is done for awhile. I have a standard config 
that I have had around for about a year now. I know it gives me everything I 
need and eliminates a lot of stuff that I don't need.