Can't get it to recognize the card. I am new to Linux, so how does the driver thing work, from what I have read I need to compile them into the kernel? Am I on the right track, can anyone help me out?

Can't get what to recognize the card? What do you get with ls /dev/dvb?

You shouldn't have to compile anything to get this card to work, especially with Mythbuntu. I have located some links with info concerning your card. This is not a detailed "How-To" that you may have hoped for, but learning about your card is always helpful.

First, this is from LinuxTV.org's DVB wiki:
http://www.linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php/ATSC_PCI_Cards
The entry for your card has three links:
http://www.linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php/DViCO_FusionHDTV5_Lite
http://www.linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php/LG_Innotek_TDVS-H06x%28F/P%29
http://www.linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php/Conexant_Fusion_878A
This is from the MythTV wiki
http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/DViCO_FusionHDTV5_Lite

There is mention that it uses the same components as the pcHDTV HD-5500. That card used the cx88-dvb module for the digital frontend, so I think that yours may also. The MythTV wiki says that it uses the dvb_bt8xx module.

There are two tuners on the card, analog and digital, and you can easily confuse them. Be aware of that, but I think that you may want to concentrate on the digital side of the card, as the analog side is most likely of inferior quality (compared to digital).

Now to the nuts and bolts. You say that the card is not recognized. Is there a /dev/dvb/adaptor0 on your system? This would be the DVICO card, unless you have another dvb card in this system. If you don't have this, then enter this command into a terminal:dmesg
Look for all entries about the card, like dvb, cx88-dvb, DVICO, etc. Also, post the output of this command, it will show all of the driver modules that are loaded on your system.lsmod
Besides the cx88-dvb (or dvb_bt8xx) module, there should be a LG DT3303 one (for the tuner?).

I hope this gets you started.

thanks I am new into the world of linux...I'll work on it an post back here.

If you do a lspci do it show up?

I have the dev/dvb/adapter0 listed...

dmesg gave me a "btvv0, IRQ lockup , int mask fail error"

lspci shows that there is a brooktree bt878 video capture anda bt878 audio capture.

when I go to find a captreu card in myth it doesnt find any cards...

wow nevermind all of a sudden there is one listed under analog v4 card

That would be the analog side of the card. To use the HD side, select DVB as the card type in MythTV. It should then find the card.

cool...thanks for everyones help...

what does everyone use for the listing source? I signed up for the trial of schedulesdirect.com, but really dont feel like paying 20.00 for it. Any alternatives?

I use Zap2xml (http://zap2xml.110mb.com/)

I am running a crontab job, running this script:
#!/bin/bash

cd ~/zap2xml
cache/* >/dev/null 2>&1

~/zap2xml/zap2xml.pl -u email -p password -d 14
mythfilldatabase --file 1 -1 ./xmltv.xml
You need to personalized it for your system and account.

I am not sure that it is updating correctly as a crontab job. But when I enter the commands manually, it works great!

I just found a different script (better?) for mythupdate.sh:
http://willtofly.com/mythtv/mythupdate.sh.txt

I'll have to try this one out.

Edit: And here's an updated version from the same person that wrote the one above:
http://willtofly.com/mythtv/mythupdate2.sh.txt

what does everyone use for the listing source? I signed up for the trial of schedulesdirect.com, but really dont feel like paying 20.00 for it. Any alternatives?

You can use EIT for atsc. It's free. Just select it in setup.

You can use EIT for atsc. It's free. Just select it in setup.

Do you use this? Does it actually show data for all of your channels?

I tried this with MythTV on Fedora/CentOS and Mythbuntu. It did not work at all in the Fedora and CentOS installations. In Mythbuntu, many of the channels only showed "No Data". I know that there is data, because my real HDTV shows the EIT data.

The MythTV developers don't seem too interested in fixing this. And why should they, if they can then force you to buy their Schedules Direct service.