I have no question to ask. I just wanted to pass along a situation where Linux "just worked".

I have a tv tuner card that I just pulled out of a box that has not been in use for a couple of years. I put it in a box (cardboard, not a system) when I made the switch to Vista. It is a 4 year old tv tuner card that lspci describes as:

03:06.0 Multimedia video controller: Brooktree Corporation Bt878 Video Capture (rev 11)

It was a cheap purchase and worked reasonably well enough in XP, but not quite so well in Vista. After awhile I started noticing that my system would not respond when I returned to it after being away for a couple of hours. Removing the tv tuner card got rid of that problem. A pre-vista piece of hardware that likely never had properly developed vista drivers.

My experience was like this.... I installed the card, attached the cable tv, did a quick 2 link search to find out that TV Time was a basic tv viewing application, did a pacman -S tvtime.... and bingo, it worked perfectly.

That was about a week ago and no stability issues have come up either. It is the same system that I was using several years ago when I gave up on this card.

Nice!