On Sun, Dec 22, 2002 at 11:37:41PM +0100, Roland Scheidegger wrote: > 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 \ Yes, it has the Conexant 23881 chip on it. > 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 Thanks for this statement. I will pass this back to those who gave me the order to use linux for this setup :-) > 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 > -- Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kukulies@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
