TV Card Divco Fusion

[gmajane]

I am not exactly a beginner, but I am far from an expert. I recently decided to try Mint after buying a USB hard drive for my laptop to put it on. Mint works, but I cannot get my TV card to work. It works in XP just fine. I have had another TV card working in Linux in the past, but cannot get this one working. I think I have screwed up my installation enough trying different things I found on the internet, that I may have to reinstall.

I used to use TV Time and also Xine, but I cannot get either to work.

How do I make a channe.conf.? I have one, but XIne thinks I don't. Maybe it is in the wrong place. XawTv and TV TIme do not even open.

Are there any good guides out there that I have missed when I Google?

Thanks.
Gmajane

[Husse]

Give us the model of the card
It may also have to do with the fact that Mint is on an external disk, but I really don't think so

[gmajane]

Thank you for replying, Husse. I have a DVICO Fusion USB Gold 5. I think if I knew exactly where to put the channels.conf, I can get it to work. I have one, but I keep getting the message that it is not there. I am in Windows right now so I can work and watch TV, but will try again soon. Also. all I need in the channels.conf for now is one channel, CATV 3, because I use the satellite tuner and remote to change channels. I cannot be sure the channels.conf file I have it right. I think it was generated by a scan command.

I really prefer to use Linux, but I watch TV on my computer and use headphones because my husband doesn't like TV. I used to have a WinTV card that worked under Ubuntu, but that was a couple of years ago before I bought this computer.

Thanks so much,

Gmajane

[Husse]

Took a while to find out, but I think it should go in ~/.xine