Not too long ago, I finally switched from Mepis to "pure" Debian (Sid,
Kernel 2.6.9-1-K7).  One major problem I'm having now is with my
bt878-based TV Tuner card, which worked well under Mepis, but does not
seem to work at all now that I have upgraded to Debian.

When I run scantv, no channels are found, even though the TV cable is
plugged directly into the card.  Here's the output of various
diagnostic commands:

xawtv -hwscan output

This is xawtv-3.94, running on Linux/i686 (2.6.9-1-k7)
looking for available devices
port 145-145
type : Xvideo, image scaler
name : NV17 Video Overlay

port 146-146
type : Xvideo, image scaler
name : NV17 Video Texture

port 147-178
type : Xvideo, image scaler
name : NV05 Video Blitter

port 179-179                            [ -xvport 179 ]
type : Xvideo, video overlay
name : NVIDIA Video Interface Port

/dev/video0: OK                         [ -device /dev/video0 ]
type : v4l2
name : BT878 video ( *** UNKNOWN/GENER
flags: overlay capture tuner


lsmod (with the irrelevant entries edited out)

Module                  Size  Used by
tuner                  20580  0
snd_bt87x              13256  0
btaudio                17296  0
bt878                  11636  0
snd_intel8x0           35020  0
snd_ac97_codec         72208  1 snd_intel8x0
snd_pcm                97608  2 snd_bt87x,snd_intel8x0
snd_timer              25604  1 snd_pcm
snd_page_alloc          9928  3 snd_bt87x,snd_intel8x0,snd_pcm
snd_mpu401_uart         7872  1 snd_intel8x0
snd_rawmidi            25060  1 snd_mpu401_uart
snd_seq_device          8072  1 snd_rawmidi
snd                    57188  8
 snd_bt87x,snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec,sn
d_pcm,snd_timer,snd_mpu401_uart,snd_
rawmidi,snd_seq_device
nvsound              1535112  0
nvidia_agp              7708  1
i810_audio             37268  1
ac97_codec             18508  1 i810_audio
soundcore              10272  5 btaudio,snd,nvsound,i810_audio
bttv                  155788  1 bt878
video_buf              22020  1 bttv
firmware_class         10368  1 bttv
i2c_algo_bit            9928  1 bttv
v4l2_common             6016  1 bttv
btcx_risc               4616  1 bttv
i2c_core               24016  3 tuner,bttv,i2c_algo_bit
videodev                9920  1 bttv

What else do I need to do to get this to work?

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On Tue, 18 Jan 2005 16:12:06 -0800, Scarletdown wrote:

> Not too long ago, I finally switched from Mepis to "pure" Debian (Sid,
> Kernel 2.6.9-1-K7).  One major problem I'm having now is with my
> bt878-based TV Tuner card, which worked well under Mepis, but does not
> seem to work at all now that I have upgraded to Debian.
>

What kind of TV tuner do you have? (e.g. Jetway, Kworld, Leadtek Winfast).
There are many bt878-based cards around.
Take a look in /usr/src/linux/Documentation/vide4linux/bttv/CARDLIST
(if you have the kernel sources installed).

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Boer Attila Laszlo wrote:
> On Tue, 18 Jan 2005 16:12:06 -0800, Scarletdown wrote:
>
> 
>
>
> What kind of TV tuner do you have? (e.g. Jetway, Kworld, Leadtek Winfast).
> There are many bt878-based cards around.
> Take a look in /usr/src/linux/Documentation/vide4linux/bttv/CARDLIST
> (if you have the kernel sources installed).
>

If I remember right, it's just called PC-TV.

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