[ Thanks to David Culp
for this link. ]
“An odd thing happened here at TheLinuxGurus.org, I was asked
the same question by multiple readers within the span of two days.
Each of them wrote me e-mail asking if I had any information on how
to get their TV tuner card to work with Linux. I just happen to
own a TV tuner card so I decided to write a brief tutorial on how
to get one operational. You will be quite surprised how easy it
is.“
“I originally bought my TV tuner card for one reason, I did not
own a regular TV. Ok, you might be thinking in todays day and age
that is a bit strange, but I just do not watch enough TV (or at
least I didn’t) to warrant the purchase price of a regular TV. I
came across a TV tuner card on sale and took it home. It took me a
little while to get it going. My tuner card uses one of the Bt
series of chips, therefore I will show you how to get a card with
one of these chips going. If you do not own a card based on the Bt
series of chips do not worry, the procedure is nearly identical and
I will provide resources at the end to further guide you. In fact,
the only real difference is the loading of the last module, you
should load your video cards driver instead of the bttv
driver.”