Hello there. I'm new to all this DVB malarky, but I'm interested in changing that with one of these cards. I want to know about compatibility first, though, before I shell out ?60 [100USD-ish] and find I've wasted my money. I was wondering if you fine people might help me out (if I help you a bit)? I've been Googling around for it and there seems to be a lot of speculation about this board - how many chips does it use, what are they, how standard is the interface, etc - but little hard fact. AVerMedia Support tell me that the board uses a chipset which is undocumented, and has no open-source Linux driver. However, the folks at Aver have been beavering away on a closed-source Linux driver - closed-source due to licensing issues with the manufacturer, I'm told. The very helpful guy answering my emails sent me what they've got so far - what seems to be an RPM-based package for FC3 and FC4. I'm on Gentoo (and I don't have the card) so I can't test it out for myself. However, the files inside the RPM are very helpfully named - the /lib/modules/2.6.11-1.1369_FC4/kernel/drivers/media/video/ directory looks like this: > mt352.ko > saa7134/saa713x.ko Now I've just looked inside my kernel configuration (2.6.14-gentoo-r4) and there's an option to support the mt352 digital tuner. The Phillips SAA7146 also appears to be supported, but not the 713x mentioned. Are they one and the same? I don't know. I hope you'll consider that I've done enough of my own poking around to be worthy of your help, but that's about as far as my poking stick will reach. With any luck this email will spark off a good discussion about the board, and we'll get some real facts. Cheers (and apologies for length), Tom :)
