noob friendly pci uk freeview card that just works

craptakular · 21 May 2008 at 21:21

hi,

spent hours trying to get this hvr-3000 tv card working on ubuntu 8.04 with no joy.

Can ubuntu 8.04 users recommend a pci freeview TV card that JUST WORKS. Especially Tv cards you are using, that work fully. If you followed a guide can you post a link to the guide for your chosen card?

I just wanna watch freeview lol

Ethics · 22 May 2008 at 10:57

'just works' isn't that common for that type of device on Linux i'm afraid. Especially with thigns like that where the manufacturer churns out windows drivers and doesn't care/budget for anything else.

You'd have more luck searching for a particular chipset that is supported, and find a card using it, google should help you there.

craptakular · 22 May 2008 at 16:25

I have a avertv 771 card in another pc, gonna try that. apparently its easier to get working.

JIM_BOB7813 · 24 May 2008 at 15:57

Hauppauge are supposed to be the best with respect to linux driver support, i got my hvr 1300 working (analogue and digital), but it took a lot of messing around.

thegoonden · 27 May 2008 at 11:40

cd /usr/src/linux
make menuconfig

dig about in the video device drivers pages, see which chipsets are supported (all the good and standards compliant ones are), then find a card using one of those chipsets and get it (having first googled for nightmares pertaining to it).

MikeHunt79 · 27 May 2008 at 17:09

If I get my Hauppauge DEC2000 working in Ubuntu I'll let you know. :/