Please help: TV Tuner card

Alexander Dalloz alexander.dalloz at uni-bielefeld.de
Tue Sep 14 16:35:30 UTC 2004


Am Di, den 14.09.2004 schrieb renjoy.henry at wipro.com um 18:11:

> driver: saa7134
> 
> desc: "Philips Semiconductors|SAA7130 Video Broadcast Decoder"

So it is a supported hardware.

> When I do an lspci I get this message for the card:

> 00:08.0 Multimedia controller: Philips Semiconductors SAA7130 Video
> Broadcast Decoder (rev 01)

> I think the drivers are installed properly for the TV tuner card. The
> kernel is 2.6.5-1.358 Fedora Core 2.

First of all, update your kernel to the latest version. The kernel ships
with the driver module needed:

$ /sbin/modinfo saa7134
description:    v4l2 driver module for saa7130/34 based TV cards
author:         Gerd Knorr <kraxel at bytesex.org> [SuSE Labs]
license:        GPL
parm:           irq_debug:enable debug messages [IRQ handler]
parm:           core_debug:enable debug messages [core]
parm:           gpio_tracking:enable debug messages [gpio]
parm:           video_nr:video device number
parm:           ts_nr:ts device number
parm:           vbi_nr:vbi device number
parm:           radio_nr:radio device number
parm:           oss:register oss devices (default: no)
parm:           dsp_nr:oss dsp device number
parm:           mixer_nr:oss mixer device number
parm:           tuner:tuner type
parm:           card:card type
parm:           latency:pci latency timer
parm:           i2c_debug:enable debug messages [i2c]
parm:           i2c_scan:scan i2c bus at insmod time
parm:           oss_debug:enable debug messages [oss]
parm:           oss_rate:sample rate (valid are: 32000,48000)
parm:           ts_debug:enable debug messages [ts]
parm:           tsbufs:number of ts buffers, range 2-32
parm:           ts_nr_packets:size of a ts buffers (in ts packets)
parm:           audio_debug:enable debug messages [tv audio]
parm:           audio_ddep:audio ddep overwrite
parm:           audio_clock_tweak:Audio clock tick fine tuning for cards
with audio crystal that's slightly off (range [-1024 .. 1024])
parm:           vbi_debug:enable debug messages [vbi]
parm:           vbibufs:number of vbi buffers, range 2-32
parm:           video_debug:enable debug messages [video]
parm:           gbuffers:number of capture buffers, range 2-32
parm:           noninterlaced:video input is noninterlaced
parm:           disable_ir:disable infrared remote support
parm:           ir_debug:enable debug messages [IR]
vermagic:       2.6.8-1.521smp SMP 686 REGPARM 4KSTACKS gcc-3.3
depends:       
i2c-core,ir-common,video-buf,videodev,v4l2-common,soundcore,v4l1-compat

> But the tvtime is not able to detect the device since it looks by
> default to the device /dev/video0.

After rebooting with the current kernel load the driver with modprobe if
it is not loaded automatically (lsmod shows you).

/dev/video0 is the default video device tvtime accesses, right. That is
no problem. If your TV card runs on a different video device use the
proper parameter for tvtime. "man tvtime" and "tvtime --help" should
always be the first steps.

-d, --device=DEVICE        video4linux device (defaults to /dev/video0).

> Also it says only a particular set of drivers are supported by tvtime.

Don't know. A google search should help. Else try out xawtv which is for
instance packaged for FC by ATrpms.net.

> Renjoy K Henry

Alexander


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