(Ubuntu) Linux support for Dimension E521 AVerMedia M779 DVBt Hybrid TV Tuner

The dutch on-line support by the name of Barth de Boer, says Dell will only support this card under Windows Vista. I wonder if this is really the case or that he's just unwilling to look into it. Neither AVerMedia nor Dell wants (or is able to) tell me what chipset is used in de M779. Is there anybody (with a brain) that does know how to get this card to work under Linux?

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@sj3fk3 wrote:
01:00.0 Multimedia video controller: Micronas Semiconductor Holding AG Unknown device 0720
Subsystem: Avermedia Technologies Inc Unknown device 032e
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 5
Memory at fdef0000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable)
Memory at fdee0000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K]
Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 2
Capabilities: [48] Message Signalled Interrupts: Mask- 64bit+ Queue=0/0 Enable-
Capabilities: [58] Express Endpoint IRQ 0
Capabilities: [100] Device Serial Number 00-11-3c-20-07-00-00-00
Capabilities: [400] Virtual Channel

When will Dell support the factory shipped TV tuner card under Linux? Dell wants to ship desktops with Ubuntu? Great idea, but make sure you support all the hardware :-)

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There must be SOMEBODY at Dell who can tell me what chipset it uses?

COME ON! How hard can it be? Dell support.. You guys must know what chipset it's using...

Are there Dell support engineers who read this forum?

I will now BUMP this topic, as I want to know t+he answer of sj3fk3's question too!

Ot.
As the M779 won't work for me correctrly under Vista anymore, I seriusly want to trash Vista. As stupid I was that I didn't make a full backup/ghost of my disk. :smileysad:

//Exry

Yes I want to get my M779 working in ubuntu too. It just doesn't work great in vista...