John Galt wrote:
It's a Reveal TV500, and there are linux drivers for it (sort
of...). There's even an (apparently dead) e-groups list about it. There
was talk about reasonably native support under V4L2, but I never heard
much about it.
Thanks John, for the quick response. That really helped. It allowed me
to track down more info, which I'll post here for the record.
From http://home.sprynet.com/~cbagwell/accuview.html:
Warning: You can find a surplus card very easily and cheaply that is a
PBTV 5. It is *NOT* compatible with PBTV 4 software and requires it to
be pluged in to an S3/Brooktree Video Capture card built in to Parckard
Bell computers that it was originally sold with. It contains a Philips
FI1236MK tuner like the accuview design and is sometimes confused for it.
So it looks like this card is useless. Chalk up another "satisfied
customer" to Packard Bell.
On Thu, 18 Jan 2001, Kent West wrote:
My cousin gave me a TV card that he had in his Windows95 box (and it
worked there). I don't really expect to be able to get it to work on my
Debian box, especially since I don't have a clue as to what I'm doing,
but I stuck it in anyway.
I can't find any vendor name or numbers that look like a model number.
IIRC it originally came out of a PackardBell (cough, gag) computer. It's
an ISA card (at least it fits in a short ISA slot), with only a few
fingers on the bus connector; it's got a cable that looks like an audio
cable; on a hunch I plugged it into the LineIn spot on my sound card (it
fits). The card has a tuner box with "Philips" stamped in it. Here's
some numbers I've found:
On the etching:
PM820201
9635
94V-0
FODTVPNRP
BPCS#060089
On a label attached to the tuner box:
SV20 9634
3139 147 1325IP
F11236 Mk2/PH tm
<snip>
Thanks!
Kent
