I finally got this up and running. Required a whole day in front of the computer and on the net. Had to modify the drivers, recompile the kernel twice and finally got it to tune and play channels. I dont have to now shell out the 2200 bucks for a pinnacle card :)
The next challenge is to get myth TV to see all these channels and get xmlTV for India running. I already used tvxb to generate xmltv for a few channels. Now have to painfully go through all the channel websites to get epg data into xmltv for as many channels as possible.
Some screenshots in case the video is not clear:
