[Kwintv] BT878 with Mandrake 9.1

[Stewart Johnson]

G'day --

I've been scanning the mail archives, but unable to find anything useful, so 
apologies if this is a repeat.

I've got a Spirit PC TV Tuner which uses the BT878 chipset. I'm running 
Mandrake 9.1, which has found the card okay and created /dev/video (which 
points to /dev/v4l/video0). It also installed xawtv for me, but i've been 
unable to get that to find any channels.

I figured I'd give Qtvision a spin -- I grabbed the latest from CVS and 
compiled it successfully, but it seems unable to find my tv card:


kio (KMimeType): WARNING: KServiceType::offers : servicetype QtVision Video 
Source not found
kio (KMimeType): WARNING: KServiceType::offers : servicetype QtVision Channel 
Format not found
kio (KMimeType): WARNING: KServiceType::offers : servicetype QtVision Audio 
Mixer not found
kio (KMimeType): WARNING: KServiceType::offers : servicetype QtVision OSD not 
found
kio (KMimeType): WARNING: KServiceType::offers : servicetype QtVision Misc not 
found

is this a common problem? are there any succesful BT878/Mandrake 9.1 users? 
any tips appreciated.

TIA,
Stewart