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Hello!
I've been trying to get my tv-card up and running for ages! I have still not succeded... :-( I would really like to get this to work so I wouldn't have to use windows all the time. I really like arch and would like to use it as my regular OS!
Anyway, I have a pinnacle pctv stereo card using the saa7134 driver. Card number is 26 (found it in a list). I live in Sweden meaning I have a PAL system. Then what to do? I've tried most of the tv programs I could find but still no success... Please help me!!!
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I find "Tvtime" is a good prog. Did you try it?
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yeah, I think tv-time seems to be the best program of those I tried! but I don't know how to setup my tv-card so I don't think I can use any program before that...
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for me, i just made sure correct drivers were loaded and change the permissions for my device
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I load the right module for my tv-card:
modprobe saa7134then I try to search for channels:
tvtime-scannerall actions as root to neglect the permissions issue at this time... but nothing works. and I have made all the right settings in tv time aso... at least I think so... I have no idea what to try next... please help me!!!!
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Make sure you also load the correct tuner (for PAL).
You can select the tuner when load the saa7134 module anyway:
modprobe saa7134 tuner=[1..or try some number]
Look at /var/log/messages after you load the module.
Try also manually select the card type:
modprobe saa7134 card=26
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what message does tvtime-scanner give you?
It says that no channels found or something like that. (Don't remember exactly now, am in windows)
Okay, I'll try to load the module with card and tuner options... But is there a way to find out which tuner type I have? I've searched for it everywhere but I can't seem to find it! :-/ If not, how many numbers should I continue testing? hehe like 1-10 or is that too much/little?
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I did some try and error and with this:
modprobe saa7134 tuner=33And using the card=26 gives the same result with dmesg:
Linux video capture interface: v1.00
saa7130/34: v4l2 driver version 0.2.12 loaded
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:0c.0[A] -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 16
saa7134[0]: found at 0000:00:0c.0, rev: 1, irq: 16, latency: 32, mmio: 0xe6016000
saa7134[0]: subsystem: 11bd:002b, board: Pinnacle PCTV Stereo (saa7134) [card=26,autodetected]
saa7134[0]: board init: gpio is 0
tda9885/6/7: chip found @ 0x86
tuner 0-0060: chip found @ 0xc0 (saa7134[0])
tuner 0-0060: microtune: companycode=9000 part=42 rev=a7
tuner 0-0060: microtune MT2050 found, OK
saa7134[0]: i2c eeprom 00: bd 11 2b 00 f8 f8 1c 00 43 43 a9 1c 55 d2 b2 92
saa7134[0]: i2c eeprom 10: 00 00 19 0e ff 20 ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
saa7134[0]: i2c eeprom 20: 01 40 01 03 03 ff 03 01 08 ff 00 53 ff ff ff ff
saa7134[0]: i2c eeprom 30: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
saa7134[0]: registered device video0 [v4l2]
saa7134[0]: registered device vbi0
saa7134[0]/audio: audio carrier scan failed, using 5.500 MHz [default]Then I edit my ~/.tvtime/stations.xml and enter a channel in the list: 210.187 (TV3 in Sweden). I start up tvtime and go through all the finetuning spectrum, I get no image... I mean, if the dmesg says tuner OK and card detected, that can't be the problem, right? I'm doing this as root, so permissions can't be the problem, right? And we use PAL in sweden and my tvtime is configured for PAL (but are there more PAL:s I have to try out?)... I have even less ideas what to do now...
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hmmm. I have a video capture card, but I've never really tried to watch different tv channels through it. I use the rca in with a vcr and it works fine like that. Are you using it with coaxial cable plugged in? You could try using rca cables and something like a vcr or dvd player. I don't know if that will make a difference, but it might be worth a try?
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I'm using the computer as a tv/vcr setup because I don't have a tv or vcr! so I can't try that...
And now after some fiddeling arround in linux with the tv-card I can't even get it to work in windows! I mean, how is this possible? I look at tv in windows, go to linux and try to set it up, back to windows and nothing works!? What's that all about?
Well, I've been trying to get this shit to work for ages now, I'm thinking of getting a new card!
Is Compro VideoMate DVB-T300 a good choise? (http://www.comprousa.com/New/en/product/vmt300.html)
And is it as hard to get this card working under linux? Or is this quest even possible!?
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That is pretty weird. It sounds like there is something wrong with your card for both linux and windows to have problems with it. I have never used the compro card before. I have a AverMedia pci card that is based on the saa 7134 driver as well and it was easy to setup. It only has a s-video and rca in though, so it probably wouldn't suit your purposes.
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But the weird thing is that I didn't have any problems with it in windows before I tried to get it working in linux yesterday! Well, of course, it took me like two hours to get it working in windows first when I had bought it, but not since then...
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found this on http://www.overclockers.com.au/wiki/MythTV:
Compro VideoMate DVB-T300
Chipset: Philips SAA 7134
Support: Requires Kernel 2.6.12 or greater and the latest CVS from video4linux and linux-dvb
Installation:* Grab the CVS for video4Linux and linux-dvb, instructions can be found at LinuxTV.org (http://www.linuxtv.org)
* Goto the video4linux directory and run scripts/merge-trees.sh
* Edit the Make.config file and make sure saa7134-dvb = n is changed to saa7134-dvb = m (builds the dvb part as a module)
* Run make && make install
* Then modprobe saa7134 oss=1 card=70
* Then modprobe saa7134-dvb and you should be good to go.
* Remote Control: I've added support for the remote control as well. It uses the linux input layer and so you'll need to configure LIRC accordingly. This change will be checked into the CVS by the time you read this
Does the dependance on the cvs of v4l mean I have to recompile the whole kernel?
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