Re: pinnacle pctv problems

But you must check the chips name physically,
may be you have the new chip

if a latin american friend got this card this year may be was available two 
years ago in your country

did you used it before with oyher linux -v?  maybe suse 8.2?


El Miércoles, 14 de Enero de 2004 08:38, cuitlahuac gomez labougle escribió:
> El Miércoles, 14 de Enero de 2004 07:38, Samuel Braun escribió:
> > Hello guys
> >
> > Recently i installed the new suse linux 9.0 on my computer.
> > The computer has also a pinnacle pctv pci card inside.
>
> Should be supported by SuSE, my bt878 (Kworld TV) is supported
> of course if is Pinnacle PCTV Studio Pro, Studio/Rave or Sat
>
> > The setup detected the card automatically.
> > After playing around with the tv applications (kwintv, xawtv) I noticed,
> > that I'm not able to get all the channels.
>
> Well I still do not understand xawtv
>
> > I considered the channels list from our cablenet. I noticed that all UHF
> > channels and some VHF OSB channels are impossible to get.
>
> The important in this kind of detection is the antenna ( of course if you
> choosed the right tuner )
>
> > I found out that, it has something to do with the driver, because before
> > I had linux on my computer I used windows and there the tv card worked
> > very well with all channels. The cable is also working correctly, checked
> > it with a normal TV.
>
> You cant get cable either? well may be if you do a phone call to your cable
> provider Tech staff,  real tech staff they can tell you the perfect match
> in tuner.
> If you do not remember  tuner used by windows ( is the same)
>
> > So I started yast and went to the tv-card section. Here I'm able to
> > select a tuner. The default option, which was selected, is standard
> > tuner. I tried a few, but the problem is that I don't exactly know which
> > tuner device I have.
>
> You must choose your country tuner in Europe is PAL and in AmericaNTSC
> in the Pci card instructions you must find the right tuner, (do not use
> predermined, detected or standard)
> Or  just try with all.
>
> > But there was no change to the channels problem.
> >
> > Today I tried to look for some tuner names directly on the pci card, but
> > I didn't find anything. One one big "chip" there is the pinnacle logo and
> > on one another chip there is "Connexant Fusion 878A".
> >
> > My channellist (frequencies):
> > http://www.cablecom.ch/tvradio/sendertabelle.htm?type=plz&keyword=943500&
> >as c =1#Tv

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