Problem w/ TV card on Linux

[Vaughn Treude]

Hello everyone:
Here's a question for the MythTV experts in the group.

Here's the background - I had a Hauppage TV card (which I used for video 
capture) running fine under Mandrake 10.  Then the system's motherboard 
died, taking the Hauppage card with it.  I recreated the system on a new 
mobo, installing Mandrake 2005 (mainly because I had a set of those CD's 
laying around.)  So I got everything reinstalled and working on that.  I 
just needed a new TV card.  I recently purchased a Hauppage PVR-150, and 
although the system detects its presence, the card won't work.  I've 
downloaded IVTV drivers for my kernel (the old 0.49 versions for 2.6.11) 
and those load without error, but will not talk to the card.

All of the "how to" instructions I've found so far say you should test 
by doing a "cat" from /dev/video0.  The problem is that on my system 
this device doesn't exist.  One of the "how to" documents said you could 
create the /dev/video* devices manually, which I tried, but they were 
gone after reboot.  So I imagine that udev (if I understand its purpose 
correctly) isn't seeing the card.  Do you think this might indicate that 
the Hauppage might be bad?

Another bit of info: this is a dual-boot system, with Windows 98 on the 
other partition.  I tested the previous TV card first under Windows, and 
it worked right away.  But the drivers that came with the PVR-150 are 
for XP, so although Windows detected and identified the card correctly, 
the drivers wouldn't install.  After some searching, I downloaded a 
driver that might _possibly_ be right for the PVR-150 (it was supposed 
to support all cards with its particular chipset), but they didn't work 
either.  When I try to start WinTV 2000 it says it can't find some sort 
of filter device.  That could mean the card's bad, I suppose, or it 
could just be the wrong driver.

I'm thinking I may be missing some video components on Linux, since it 
doesn't create /dev/video* and I haven't tried a TV card before on this 
install.  But it doesn't seem likely, as I've downloaded and installed 
the many, many video-related packages to get Xine working.  But I'm 
still hopeful that I won't have to return this card.  Any suggestions of 
video-type packages that I might have missed?  (I suppose I could try 
upgrading to kernel 2.6.18 as the IVTV docs suggested, so I can get more 
recent drivers, but I think my problem is more fundamental than that.)

Thanks,
Vaughn