MSI TV Tuner in Fedora

[Steve]

Is there a way for me to use my MSI TV@nywhere Master tuner (PCI) in
Fedora?? I'd like to know if this is possible.

Thanks for any help!

[Poohba]

I am not sure about MSI but I use WinTv Go and I guess if you have it
installed you can either start up xawtv or tvtime and see if it works. 
You can also lsmod and see if the bttv module is loaded.  That is of
course if that is the module it uses.  I'm just speaking from my
experiences not as a guru.

On Wed, 2004-09-29 at 14:44, bassix wrote:
> Is there a way for me to use my MSI TV@nywhere Master tuner (PCI) in
> Fedora?? I'd like to know if this is possible.
>
> Thanks for any help!

[Georgios Petasis]

Can you specify which capture chip the board uses?

George

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Poohba" 
To: "bassix" ; "For users of Fedora Core releases"

Sent: Thursday, September 30, 2004 12:51 AM
Subject: Re: MSI TV Tuner in Fedora
> I am not sure about MSI but I use WinTv Go and I guess if you have it
> installed you can either start up xawtv or tvtime and see if it works.
> You can also lsmod and see if the bttv module is loaded.  That is of
> course if that is the module it uses.  I'm just speaking from my
> experiences not as a guru.
>
> On Wed, 2004-09-29 at 14:44, bassix wrote:
> > Is there a way for me to use my MSI TV@nywhere Master tuner (PCI) in
> > Fedora?? I'd like to know if this is possible.
> >
> > Thanks for any help!
>
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[Kostas Sfakiotakis]

bassix wrote:
> Is there a way for me to use my MSI TV@nywhere Master tuner (PCI) in
> Fedora?? I'd like to know if this is possible.

As George Petasis in his email indicates the answer to your question
depends on the chipset that your TV Tuner Board uses and whether 
video4linux is supported by the kernel you use . If there is
support for that chipset under Linux , then certainly you can use your
TV Tuner Board under Linux ( for example am watching TV right now as i 
am writing this Email , using a Studio PCTV Pro Tuner Board , under
Fedora Core 1 using Kernel 2.4.26 ).

In an effort to help a bit more
from a console give the command

#lspci -vv

In the output of this Command check for something similar to the text
bellow :

00:0c.0 Multimedia video controller: Brooktree Corporation Bt848 Video
                                      ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
                                      This is the Chipset .

Capture (rev 12)
         Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- 
ParErr- Step
ping- SERR- FastB2B-
         Status: Cap- 66Mhz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium
> TAbort- <TAbort

- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
         Latency: 32 (4000ns min, 10000ns max)
         Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 10
         Region 0: Memory at e3002000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=4K]

Kind Regards,
    Kostas