I can't help more than Xandros, I have a PVR-350, different chipset. <a href="http://www.linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php/Hauppauge" target="_blank">http://www.linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php/Hauppauge</a> "WinTV-NOVA ... the designation is used for their so-called "budget" or software decoding cards". That can't be good. softmodems, softraid, soft something usually are more trouble. <a href="http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Hauppauge_WinTV_Nova-T_PCI" target="_blank">http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Hauppauge_WinTV_Nova-T_PCI</a> "Note: This card comes in two flavours. The author only has experience with the Conexant CX chipset sold with the newer models. ". Check it with lspci -v, and let us know <div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> Anyone who has managed this preferably without having to re-compile the kernel (can you imagine getting anyone to re-compile XP :-<) <div class="h5"> </div></blockquote> </div>I wish I could :) Still in the compile subject, I've tried to install freevo a month ago, but the package "is broken" - It doesn't work. You may compile from source. I've tried and didn't have success, but I didn't try much.