>> A friend of mine want to setup Linux on his machine, and he has a TV card
>> from Phillips installed. The question is now, if anyone has ever written
>Try getting board info from Philips. I've not been able to find anyone
>who actually had their wetware fitted in philips. TV card drivers ought
>to be simple as the boards are clearly just I2C bus interfaces to standard
>video/tv chips.
Take a look at http://www.thp.uni-koeln.de/~rjkm/ for a start on a driver
for the Bt848 PCI digitizer and a Philips tuner.
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This driver is solely based on a Bt848 manual and Philips data sheets for the
various chips of the tuner. (No "NDAed" code, no reverse engineering)
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I still would classify it as pre-alpha, but I was able to get a TV
picture inside an X-Window and some quite nice videotext stuff from my
Hauppauge WinTV/PCI.
Maybe this helps...
Ciao
Henning
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