TV Tuner cards anyone?

Hello from the Eighth Doctor
I have here a Hauppauge WinTV card. The thing comes with software written for
you guessed it, that guy's OS. It comes with user written advice for Red Hat Linux.

And when I contacted the crew at the place not long ago, they told me that they
support the card under that guy's OS, naturally. But not under Linux, the "user
written advice" was supplied to them, via the work of an ordinary user.

Has anyone tried this card under Slackware Linux? Say 10.1.
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The Eighth Doctor wrote:

> Hello from the Eighth Doctor
> I have here a Hauppauge WinTV card. The thing comes with software written for
> you guessed it, that guy's OS. It comes with user written advice for Red Hat Linux.

What chipset is it? Stating "I have X brand card" tends to be useless, since
they tend to change chipsets on a given branded card without notice to
generic user. (You're supposed to use their drivers, so why do you care
about chipsets? )

Many of the Hauppauge cards are based on the 848 chipset, which is supported
under linux. I have a CCMail card in my box, and a generic TV card that has
Hauppauge printed on it. Both are based on the 848, and both use the same
module, just different IO ranges.

If its a full tuner, you're probably good. I had to tweek the code a little
for the CCMail card because it had no tuner chip on it, as it was video in
only. (Basically had to make a null-tuner module, but it works.

If your isn't based on the 848, look at the board / Win-drivers to see what
it is, and post that info. Without more detail, theres a good chance you
won't get a good reply.