I tried in 12.10, booted from iso file quantal-desktop-i386.iso. I couldn't get the GUI working so I booted into text mode and used fmtools. I hear my favourite radio station.
$ uname -a Linux ubuntu 3.5.0-15-generic #22-Ubuntu SMP Wed Sep 19 20:06:19 UTC 2012 i686 athlon i686 GNU/Linux $ fm 99.05 Radio tuned to 99.05 MHz (radio does not support volume control) $ fm on Radio on (radio does not support volume control) $ v4l2-ctl -d /dev/radio0 -all -L Driver Info (not using libv4l2): Driver name : bttv Card type : BT878 radio (Hauppauge (bt878)) Bus info : PCI:0000:02:08.0 Driver version: 3.5.4 Capabilities : 0x00010000 Tuner Video input : 0 (Radio: ok) Audio input : 0 (Radio) Frequency: 1584799 (99.049937 MHz) Tuner: Name : Radio Capabilities : 62.5 Hz stereo Frequency range : 65.0 MHz - 108.0 MHz Signal strength/AFC : 25%/0 Current audio mode : stereo Available subchannels: stereo mute (bool) : default=0 value=0 Then I booted ubuntu-12.04.1-desktop-i386.iso from iso file. Radio is not working $ uname -a Linux ubuntu 3.2.0-29-generic-pae #46-Ubuntu SMP Fri Jul 27 17:25:43 UTC 2012 i686 athlon i386 GNU/Linux $ fm 99.05 fm: Frequency 99.0 MHz out of range (0.0 - 0.0 MHz) $ fm on Radio on (radio does not support volume control) $ v4l2-ctl -d /dev/radio0 --all -L Driver Info (not using libv4l2): Driver name : bttv Card type : BT878 radio (Hauppauge (bt878)) Bus info : PCI:0000:02:08.0 Driver version: 3.2.24 Capabilities : 0x00010000 Tuner Video input : 0 (Radio: ok) Audio input : 0 (Radio) Frequency: 0 (0.000000 MHz) Tuner: Name : Radio Capabilities : 62.5 kHz Frequency range : 0.0 MHz - 0.0 MHz Signal strength/AFC : 0%/0 Current audio mode : mono Available subchannels: mute (bool) : default=0 value=0 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/776065 Title: FM Radio doesn't work, only TV To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/gnomeradio/+bug/776065/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs