help me install my tv card

[on.earth]

Can anybody help me get my Palmtop tv card work under linux ..!
please !!

[waterhead]

If you can determine the tuner make/model and the capture chip make/model, then the proper driver modules can be loaded.

Take a look at LinuxTV.org. Check out the wiki's and see if your card is listed anywhere. I don't even know if it is analog or digital.

[on.earth]

I am not expert in these sort of things ..
it's winfast PalmTop TV USB card ,analog tv ,chipset Conexant 25843 ,video standards NTSC ,PAL or SECAM ..

[waterhead]

I gather that it is a Leadtek USB tuner. I don't see it listed as being supported. It MAY be supported in the newer V4L/DVB drivers. You would need to install everything form the LunuxTV CVS/Mercurial.

First, the cards are usually "known" to linux using their device number. First run this command (as root).

# lsusb

Look for your TV card and make note of the numbers at the beginning of that line. Then run this command and look for those numbers.

# lsusb -n

The eight digit numbers separated by a colon (xxxx:xxxx) are the card identifying numbers.

If it is not supported, it may not identify your card. If you get a good ID number, try doing an internet search for that number. There could be a new driver being developed for it. You never know. :)

Another good source for help on this is the Linux section of the AVS Forums.
HTPC - Linux Chat - AVS Forum

I see that some LinuxTV/DVB developers visit that forum. You may find better help on this there.

[waterhead]

I found a reference to this chip using the bttv driver here:
bttv gallery

It is listed like this:

cx23415, cx23416 / iTVC15, iTVC16
- cx23415 + saa7115 + saa7127: WinTV PVR 350 and others, IVTV driver
- cx23416 + saa7115 (or others) + mspXXXX(or other): WinTV PVR250 and others, IVTV driver
- cx23416 + cx25840/cx25842/cx25843: e.g. WinTV PVR150 and others

I'm not sure exactly which drivers you need to load, but this would narrow it down.

[on.earth]

after running the lsusb i found this :

ID 0413:6024 Leadtek Research, Inc.

so it seams that it does recognize it , in google i didn't find any driver for it !

[waterhead]

FYI

I found a reference to a driver being developed for this card in the V4L/DVB mail list archives:
'cx25843' in linux-video - MARC

The developer, Michael Krufky, has recently posted at least once on the AVS Linux forums. You could join the AVS forums and send him a private message on the status of this driver.

Just a thought.

[waterhead]

As I am a member of the AVS Forums, I just sent a PM to the driver's developer. Let's see if he responds.

[on.earth]

OK ,I am an AVS member know too ..!

Thnx !

[waterhead]

You may as well start a thread for this on the HTPC-Linux Chat forum. You never know, someone may help.