Need Help with Diamond ATI TV Wonder HD750.

[Sethanath]

Hi,

How do you get this hardware to work in Fedora 17?
What software to use?

Please help.

Thanks.

[george_toolan]

Is this the usb version of the card?

What happens when you plug it in?

lsusb -v

tail -f /var/log/messages

[Sethanath]

Hi,

No, it is not the usb version of the card. My exact card is right here.

http://www.bestbuy.com/site/DIAMOND-...&skuId=3404067

Your command lines above are for USB. Therefore, I did not include them with this reply.

May I ask what are the best softwares for watching TV from Fedora?

Thanks.

[Sethanath]

Helps are greatly appreciated.

[Sethanath]

I have a few more questions.

1. How do I know if this piece of hardware is installed correctly with driver for it in Fedora?
2. Which are the best software for watching TV in Fedora?
3. If there is none, what I have in mind is installed windows version of Media Center that come with my hardware onto Fedora using PlayonLinux.

Quick opinion is greatly appreciated.

[george_toolan]

You have to find a driver for this card first, but you might be out of luck.

TV software include kaffeine, me-tv, mythtv and vdr.

[stevea]

First identify the cards PCI IDs with
sudo lspci -nnk
then post the relevant sections.

[Sethanath]

Thanks so much. Here is the information. Please teach me how to work with hardware.

01:00.0 Multimedia controller [0480]: ATI Technologies Inc Theater HD T507 (DVB-T) TV tuner/capture device [1002:ac12]
Subsystem: ATI Technologies Inc Device [1002:b935]

[Sethanath]

What if I install Windows XP on my Fedora's virtual machine?
Would my TV card work perfectly? I should be able to install driver for my TV card in XP right?
I think the TV processing would work okay right?

Thanks.

[george_toolan]

Probably not ;-)

You would need a CPU with some sort of Virtualization Technology for Directed I/O like Intel VT-d and software which support it.

Please note the difference between VT-x and VT-d.

[Sethanath]

I could not get the hardware above to work with VirtualBox.
I also understand what you mean now You were referring to pcipassthrough which I have just learned today.

http://www.virtualbox.org/manual/ch0...pcipassthrough

Should I change from VirtualBox to anything else that might get my hardware to work? Should I tried something by the name Xen (Virtual Machine)? I heard it has different type of pcipassthrough also.

I also contacted the support team for my hardware. They said they do not have Linux driver for it.

Any hint is greatly appreciated.