Re: using Hauppauge WinTV under Debian

[Syrus Nemat-Nasser <syrus@ucsd.edu>]

On Thu, 1 Apr 1999, Ramiel Givergis wrote:

> I've noticed in the newer kernels there is now support for TV tuners
> and FM tuner
> 
> I have one windows machine at home among many which I'm trying to
> transition to Debian but it has one card that I don't think will
> work with Debian.  It's my Hauppauge WinTV card
> it's a TV/Radio tuner which works under all the winblows versions
> 
> I have not seen any docs on this card for linux
> 
> does anyone know if it's possible to use this under linux?
> 
> has anyone actualy attempted this?

I've got a Hauppauge WinTV card now working under Debian with kernel
2.2.1. I can't give details now because I'm at work (different machine).
The trick was to get the correct hardware addressing so both sound and
video would work. I got the correct settings from an old archived email on
this list. I compiled the kernel with the appropriate video4linux support
for my card, and then I custom compiled a recent version of xawtv. The
Debian package appears to be broken. Anyway, using xawtv, I can watch TV
in a window. It works. It's cool. No more need to reboot to Windows since
I've decided to stop using Quicken.

Thanks. Syrus.

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Syrus Nemat-Nasser <syrus@ucsd.edu>    UCSD Physics Dept.