Re: new WinTV/Hauppage conexant - nogo bttv

[Roland Scheidegger <sroland@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Christoph Kukulies wrote:
> I tried to get one of these newer WinTV PCI cards working
> under Redhat 8.0 with a 2.4.20 kernel.
>
> lspci lists this as unknown device (8800).
>
> I put an old BT848 card in the system and it worked 
> right off.
>
> Any clues how to get this card working?
>
> --
> Christoph Kukulies

What do you mena with "newer" ? There are a lot of different types (with 
the same model number). If it is brand new, it might be based on the 
Conexant CX23880/CX23881, the successor of the bt878 (at least I've read 
somewhere that hauppauge will probably convert all its cards to that 
chip). This chip is not supported by a linux driver. And it's impossible 
to write a driver, since the datasheet is not available (not sure why, 
maybe has something to do with the way the chip handles macrovision in a 
digital tv stream? this is pure speculation however).

Roland