I had been having a problem with my Kworld card under Linux until I found this page:

http://www.mind.lu/~yg/ftvco/

There is a script that solved all my problems...
It is usefull for people having problems with TV cards under Linux...

I hope this works for you as it did for me!!!!
Good luck newbies! (iam one )

I'm currently having problems with my card and have tried to get this program to help me. It is unable to find any suitable combinations. The card is a Pinnacle PCTV and I'm running Mandrake 9.1.

When you run the program and it tries each combination, it comes up with this message after it pulls up xawtv:

Xlib: extension "XFree86-DRI" missing on display "0.0".

Is this normal, or should I try and find out whats going on?
Thanks!!

BT

so you;re unable to use the card right? have you set the card number for the card or trying to let it use the default settings? search google for the bttv cardlist, which will give you an ID number for the card you are using, you can then speciically set this in /etc/modules.conf

well yeah that message is normal if you're not loading dri, which you don't need.

Well I must say that problem must be related to Xfree86 and Xawtv more than to the program itself.... have you done a search for it in any engine???
Your card is very good and it should work...
Mine is just a cheap one..

Kworld bt878

Good luck!!!

About 6 months ago, I set up my tv card. This how-to helped me a lot:

http://www.linuxlabs.biz/articles/tvcard.html


I had the same problem and the solution was setting the propper driver for my nvidia video card.

i wish my tv card had linux support

I'm about to give up. I tried the link above, but I think there's a problem with Mandrake. It uses something called drakxtv. This autodetects the card and assigns the "appropriate" options. Everything I try in modules.conf is overwritten by this program (I think).

Anyway, here is the appropriate dmesg stuff for this:

Linux video capture interface: v1.00
bttv: driver version 0.7.100 loaded
bttv: using 4 buffers with 2080k (8320k total) for capture
bttv: Host bridge is VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8367 [KT266]
bttv: Bt8xx card found (0).
bttv0: Bt878 (rev 17) at 00:0d.0, irq: 17, latency: 32, mmio: 0xdddff000
bttv0: detected: Pinnacle PCTV [card=39], PCI subsystem ID is 11bd:0012
bttv0: using: BT878(Pinnacle PCTV Studio/Ra) [card=39,autodetected]
bttv0: i2c: checking for MSP34xx @ 0x80... found
bttv0: pinnacle/mt: id=6 info="NTSC / stereo" radio=no
tda9887: probing bt848 #0 i2c adapter [id=0x10005]
tda9887: chip found @ 0x86
bttv0: i2c attach [client=tda9887,ok]
bttv0: using tuner=33
bttv0: i2c: checking for MSP34xx @ 0x80... found
msp34xx: init: chip=MSP3440G-B6, has NICAM support
msp3410: daemon started
bttv0: i2c attach [client=MSP3440G-B6,ok]
bttv0: i2c: checking for TDA9875 @ 0xb0... not found
bttv0: i2c: checking for TDA7432 @ 0x8a... not found
tvaudio: TV audio decoder + audio/video mux driver
tvaudio: known chips: tda9840,tda9873h,tda9874h/a,tda9850,tda9855,tea6300,tea6420,tda8425,pic16c54 (PV951)
tuner: probing bt848 #0 i2c adapter [id=0x10005]
tuner: chip found @ 0xc0
tuner: type set to 33 (MT2032 universal)
MT2032: Companycode=4d54 Part=04 Revision=04
bttv0: i2c attach [client=MT2032 universal,ok]
MT2032: Companycode=4d54 Part=04 Revision=04
bttv0: PLL: 28636363 => 35468950 ... ok
bttv0: registered device video0
bttv0: registered device vbi0
--------------------------------------------------------------------------
Anything look out of the ordinary?

Thanks,

BT

Well I'm having the same problem, running Mandrake 9.2

My dmesg:

Linux video capture interface: v1.00
bttv: driver version 0.7.107 loaded
bttv: using 4 buffers with 2080k (8320k total) for capture
bttv: Host bridge is VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8366/A/7 [Apollo KT266/A/333]
bttv: Bt8xx card found (0).
bttv0: Bt848 (rev 18) at 00:06.0, irq: 17, latency: 64, mmio: 0xdddff000
bttv0: using: BT848A( *** UNKNOWN/GENERIC **) [card=0,autodetected]
bttv: readee error
bttv0: using tuner=-1
bttv0: i2c: checking for MSP34xx @ 0x80... not found
bttv0: i2c: checking for TDA9875 @ 0xb0... not found
bttv0: i2c: checking for TDA7432 @ 0x8a... not found
bttv0: registered device video0
bttv0: registered device vbi0