Power of the pinguino! An old card tv, a Mentor of 1999, than obviously did not want to know some to work with sight, works dignitosamente with ours airone. How?
The card in issue uses the chip bt878 that it is loaded automatically from Ubuntu Hardy with formulation UNKNOWN/GENERIC. This “generic” acknowledgment does not allow the vision of the tv, reason for which must at least set up manually the module of the kernel in such way that recognizes also the model of the tvcard or with the same detailed lists. Here like making:

• cat /usr/share/doc/linux-doc-2.6.24/Documentation/video4linux/CARDLIST.bttv (this commando opens in shell present the CARDLIST.bttv rows in the documentation of the kernel of hardy);
• the Mentor tv card uses a system pixelview; in the cardlist there are various cards pixelview, therefore it must make some attempt in order to characterize that just (in my case number 70); now enough to execute in succession rmmod bt878 - rmmod bttv - modprobe bttv card=70 (the first two commandos they cancel the modules momentarily bt878 and bttv, the last charge bttv for the card Prolink Pixelview PV-BT878P;
• dmesg | grep bttv; if cell'output there is a line similar to this:  input: bttv IR (card=70) as /devices/pci0000: 00/0000: 00: 0a.0/input/input9 all it would have to be to place;

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