Comment 145 for bug 25931

YES, for Ubuntu 8.04 Release Candidate, its kernel 2.6.24-16-generic lack of TV tuner drivers is causing HAL initialization failure or worse for my [A] rig E2160 with its AverTV A777 PCI card using a Zarlink MT352 DVB-T chip. There's also no driver for my [C] rig Northwood P4 AverTV A800 USB module and its DiBcom 3000MC/P chip, which only prevents Freeview reception but doesn't block installation.
Indeed, my [C] rig gets so far as to confirm the absence of a suitable driver when configuring Kaffeine.
Re-installing Ubuntu 7.10 on my [A] or [C] rigs confirms the presence of drivers in the slightly modified 2.6.22-14-generic kernel.

It will probably take another hard days work to further confirm with my 'work in progress' E4600 rig, but I'm convinced, so thank you, Ripps818