On Sunday 10 June 2007 17:00, William Case wrote: > Hi; > > I unfortunately have an ATI TV Wonder 550 TV tuner card with a Theater > 550 chipset. There is no driver for this card and, in fact, it is not > even listed in the hwdata file. I submitted bugzilla request 221205 in > January and have received no notice that anything is happening. I have > just googled and found a few current non-Fedora mailing list discussions > about this non-existent driver. The prognosis isn't good. > > It seems the fault lies with ATI/ADM. I have emailed ATI/ADM and been > told by them that the "card is sold as is". > > I really don't want to buy another card because the ATI TV Wonder was a > Christmas present and works well in WindowsXP. Which isn't a major > point because I spend about 90% of my time in Linux now adays. > > Any suggestions? Would bugging bugzilla help? Contacting ATI/ADM > again? Does anyone know anything definitive about this card or its > driver? Or, should I give up and just buy another card? > > -- > Regards Bill Reluctantly I say, buy another card. I've been back to Jan 2007 on the v4l archives, and only one post. This again suggesting contacting ATI/AMD, who seem to be reluctant to release details of the chipset. It says "not yet supported" at, http://www.linuxtv.org/v4lwiki/index.php/ATI/AMD And at the bottom of the page under "related threads", the first one says something similar. I have an Hauppauge Win TV Express card (bttv driver), and only bought it after asking a few questions on lists first. It works fine for analogue TV, but saying that, I did have to go through the hoops a bit, setting various options, so that I could receive transmissions from France, Belgium, and the UK. It was my first TV card, and I think it took about 2 weeks to get it working on various distro's, some of which needed different options depending on the kernel I was booted up with. All the best. Nigel. btw. Pre next Christmas, put it about a bit, that if your friends/folks are thinking about buying you hardware, get them to check out if it works under linux before buying.
