Linux on Laptops & Notebooks with TV Tuner Cards

Please Help

The BTTV Mini-HOWTO by Eric Sandeen <eric_sandeen_at_bigfoot.com> doesn't mention TV tuners in laptops yet. Do you have any information about laptops or notebooks which feature such devices or TV PCMCIA cards working with Linux?

Werner Heuser <wehe_at_tuxmobil.org>

Laptops and Notebooks

ACER Aspire 9814WKMi	KUbuntu 6.10 Edgy Eft, 7.04, Novell/SuSE 11.0 AMD64 (x86_64)
Clevo 8880	Linux
HP Pavilion DV 6575US	Ubuntu
HP Pavilion DV 6575US	Italian
Samsung R55	Debian
Toshiba Qosmio G40	Linux

PCMCIA Cards

• Winnov Videum Traveler. The driver is maintained by Jim Zajkowski and Brian Noble. See also the manufacturer page for PCI/ISA drivers.
• "IBM Smart Capture", a driver is contributed by Koji Okamura ,see also the PCMCIA contrib packages . Most of the pages about it are in Japanese.
• Nogatech capture card , Linux status unknown
• NOTEWORTHY Notebook TV video card, Linux status unknown

USB

Please check these Linux projects: LinuxTV - Supported Cards, LinuxDVB and ByteSex.

Drivers and Applications

IVTV

The IVTV project develops a kernel driver for Linux and a driver for X11 for hardware based on Conexant's CX23415/CX23416 codec chip such as the Hauppauge PVR 150/250/350/500 models and other supported hardware

i810 TV-OUT Lenny

i810 TV-OUT Lenny is a ready-to-use chroot environment that allows usage of the TV-out device on intel i810/i8xx/i9xx hardware. It also contains a media player, a file manager, and a window manager.

Credits

• Eric Sandeen <eric_sandeen_at_bigfoot.com> author of the BTTV Mini-HOWTO.
• Karl vom Dorff <karl_at_karlvd.com>