Please Help
The BTTV Mini-HOWTO(http://www.tldp.org/) by Eric Sandeen <eric_sandeen_at_bigfoot.com> doesn't mention TV tuners in laptops yet. Do you have any information about laptops or notebooks which feature such devices or TV PCMCIA cards working with Linux?
Werner Heuser <wehe_at_tuxmobil.org>
Laptops and Notebooks
| ACER Aspire 9814WKMi(http://samuel.benoit.online.fr/en/opensuse-11.0-linux-acer-aspire-9814-wkmi-9800-series-kde-4) | KUbuntu 6.10 Edgy Eft, 7.04, Novell/SuSE 11.0 AMD64 (x86_64) | |
| Clevo 8880(http://www.viajes-abaco.com/8880/) | Linux | |
HP Pavilion DV 6575US(http://aldeby.org/blog/?page_id=87)  | Ubuntu | |
| HP Pavilion DV 6575US(http://aldeby.org/blog/?page_id=88) | Italian | |
| Samsung R55(http://www.hentges.net/misc/howtos/Samsung-R55/index.shtml) | Debian | |
| Toshiba Qosmio G40(http://frlinux.net/?section=portables&article=226) | Linux |
PCMCIA Cards
- Winnov(http://www.winnov.com) Videum Traveler. The driver is maintained by Jim Zajkowski and Brian Noble(http://www.eecs.umich.edu/~bnoble/group/wnv-pcmcia/). See also the manufacturer page(http://millennium.diads.com/bdirks/winnov.htm) for PCI/ISA drivers.
- "IBM Smart Capture", a driver is contributed by Koji Okamura(http://www.mickey.ai.kyutech.ac.jp/~ohashi/scc/) ,see also the PCMCIA contrib packages . Most of the pages about it are in Japanese.
- Nogatech(http://www.nogatech.com/) capture card , Linux status unknown
- NOTEWORTHY Notebook TV video card, Linux status unknown
USB
Please check these Linux projects: LinuxTV - Supported Cards(http://www.linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php/Main_Page), LinuxDVB(http://www.linuxdvb.tv/) and ByteSex(http://bytesex.org/saa7134/).
Drivers and Applications
IVTV
The IVTV(http://ivtvdriver.org/index.php/Main_Page) project develops a kernel driver for Linux and a driver for X11 for hardware based on Conexant's CX23415/CX23416 codec chip such as the Hauppauge PVR 150/250/350/500 models and other supported hardware
i810 TV-OUT Lenny
i810 TV-OUT Lenny(http://sourceforge.net/projects/i810tvout/) is a ready-to-use chroot environment that allows usage of the TV-out device on intel i810/i8xx/i9xx hardware. It also contains a media player, a file manager, and a window manager.