Hi, I am trying to get my tuner card working on Linux in SouthAfrica. (We use PAL-I)

Firstly is there someway (poking through /proc) to check what the tuner is
currently set too aside from check syslog or dmesg?

The tuner gets set to 38 PAL/SEACAM and no matter what I put in /etc/modules I can get the card to select tuner type 24 which according to this ref (http://www.linuxtv.org/v4lwiki/index.ph ... nFast_2000) should be for SouthAfrica.
If I set the tuner type it accepts it, but then it seems like it gets overridden once the cx8800 module loads.
The reason I am trying to set it is because I have bad quality picture which is also off color and static for sound. I have also tried loading module tuner with option 'pal=i'
Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Setup:
Winfast TV2000 XP expert
KnoppMyth R5A26
Athlon 1800
512MB
Nvidia MX440

Other:
0000:00:0e.0 Multimedia video controller: Conexant Winfast TV2000 XP (rev 05)
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Linux video capture interface: v1.00
bttv: driver version 0.9.16 loaded
bttv: using 8 buffers with 2080k (520 pages) each for capture
cx2388x v4l2 driver version 0.0.5 loaded
cx88[0]: subsystem: 107d:6611, board: Leadtek Winfast 2000XP Expert [card=5,autodetected]
TV tuner 38 at 0x1fe, Radio tuner -1 at 0x1fe
cx88[0]: Leadtek Winfast 2000XP Expert config: tuner=38, eeprom[0]=0x01
cx88[0]: registered IR remote control
cx88[0]/0: found at 0000:00:0e.0, rev: 5, irq: 17, latency: 32, mmio: 0xec000000
tuner (ivtv): chip found at addr 0xc0 i2c-bus cx88[0]
All bytes are equal. It is not a TEA5767
tuner: type set to 38 (Philips PAL/SECAM multi (FM1216ME MK3)) by cx88[0]
tda9885/6/7: (ivtv) chip found @ 0x86
cx88[0]/0: registered device video0 [v4l2]
cx88[0]/0: registered device vbi0
cx88[0]/0: registered device radio0
bt878: AUDIO driver version 0.0.0 loaded
saa7146: register extension 'dvb'.
saa7146: register extension 'budget dvb'.
saa7146: register extension 'budget_ci dvb'.
saa7146: register extension 'budget_av'.
lirc_dev: IR Remote Control driver registered, at major 61
The bttv_* interface is obsolete and will go away,
please use the new, sysfs based interface instead.