I have a TechCom SSD-TV-675 TV Tuner card which is working fine in Windows XP and Windows 7. I recently installed Ubuntu 9.10 in my system, it doesn't showing any tv tuner card in it. How can i configure and setup the tv tuner in Ubuntu 9.10.
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Do you have a file with the name "video0" in the "/dev" directory on you Ubuntu system? | |||
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My money's on the fact that this card is unsupported in any Linux-based distribution. It's typical--usually the manufacturers are so scared of the MPAA that they happily come up with all the DRM they're asked to implement. Alternately the card decodes Macrovision and your manufacturer is afraid of lawsuits around that... A quick visit to your link: Ask the manufacturer for Linux drivers--but don't expect them to have any. The best supported TV tuner cards for Linux are put out by this company: http://www.pchdtv.com/ | |||
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Using a TV tuner on Linux is not as easy as it should be. Most of the times linux don't recognize the card properly. It appears that your tuner is based on Philips saa7134 which is well supported on linux, but you have to tweak the parameters in order to make it work. The Archlinux wiki documentation even suggest a kernel rebuild to First, try loading the drivers: if that fails try this link: | |||
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