What I got :

• MuchTV Cardbus
• Ubuntu 10.10
• Toshiba Satellite M40

What I want : to be able to watch my tv cable and playing PS2 in Ubuntu screen, the sound from my TV decoder and PS2 goes straight to active speaker. I don't really care about broadcast TV and sound from my tv card.

What I did :

• with lspci (read link 2 below), I know my tv card use :
  

  07:00.0 Multimedia controller: Philips Semiconductors SAA7134/SAA7135HL Video Broadcast Decoder (rev 01)

• and dmesg reveals (the actual list is longer, I edited it to make it simple);
  
  

  [17208393.372000] saa7134:   card=79 -> Sedna/MuchTV PC TV Cardbus TV/Radio (ITO

• from information above + link 1 below I made a file named SAA7134 in /etc/modprobe.d that contains :
  
  

  options saa7134 card=79 tuner=44

• installed tvtime via Ubuntu Software Center
• restarted Ubuntu,
• started TV TIME,
• because I use video composite, I choose composite1 as video input. Don't forget to change TV standard accordingly(e.g.: NTSC, PAL, etc)

 Voila, God Of War II in Ubuntu, sort of.

 

Links list :

1. How to install ATI TV Wonder 200 : modify the file with your tv card chip number, read below to know how,
2. How To Know Your TV Card Chip ; lspci and dmesg are your friend here,
3. to know which card are supported visit TV TIME.

Have fun :)