[newbie] Back to the club and need help with my WinTV Go setup on Mandrake 9.2 RC2

[Ian Truelsen]

On Sun, 14 Sep 2003 10:31:44 -0700
Patrick Samson <psamson@shaw.ca> wrote:

> I used Mandrake Control Center 2.0 to install my Hauppauge bt 878
> selecting it and selecting NTSC for TV Norm and clicke "OK". Next it
> looks like it is scanning for channels with XawTV and then it close.
> So When I go open XawTV, it only shows 1 channel. The tv norm is set
> to PAL and the frequency set to europ-west. There has to be something
> that I am doing wrong. Thanks for the help
> 
I don't know much about Mandrake, but here is what you can do to get
xawtv up and running for you:

open a term, make sure you are in your home directory and run this:
scantv -o .xawtv

It should ask you for your frequency table (usually us-cable) and also
ask you to choose NTSC, then it will scan the channels and write the
.xawtv file to your home directory. Then, when you open xawtv it will
source that file and you should have access to all of your stations.

HTH

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