bt848 support and 2.6.x kernels?

["Adrian Wilkins" <dr_barnowl@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

I have an ancient Hauppauge bt848 based WinTV pci card. It's been
frustrating me severely.....

The card is a Hauppauge WinTV PCI (bt848) with a PAL-I tuner. It also
has composite / stereo inputs.

I've been unable to get it work on either Gentoo or Unbuntu, on 2.6
series kernels (2.6.8 and 2.6.10). I've tried various things for
several days.

Noting that the auto-try for bt848 cards no longer runs, I've
specified card=2 in my options, but I've also tried all the other card
ID values where the card holds a PAL-I tuner.

The card itsef shows up in lspci as

0000:00:0f.0 Multimedia video controller: Brooktree Corporation:
Unknown device 0150 (rev 11)

On executing modprobe bttv the log accumulates :

Linux video capture interface: v1.00
bttv: driver version 0.9.15 loaded
bttv: using 8 buffers with 2080k (520 pages) each for capture

I've seen text elsewhere that suggests some sort of acknowledgement of
the card selected should be present. Is this the case? I'm guessing I
should be seeing

bttv: model: BT848(Hauppauge old)

I've been quite persistent and varied in the things I've tried, (many
kernel rebuilds, options on i2c modules, options on bttv module, tuner
module, etc). It leaves me wondering if support for this old card
still works.

I can't get my USB DVB-T box working either, but this isn't your
problem  :-)  It's just very frustrating that neither of my TV devices
works on a box that's meant to be the testing ground for MythTV with a
view to getting a quiet PVR server installed in the living room...

I think I'll install Win2k tonight and see if it works from there, but any 
suggestions are welcome...


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