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XazZ

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From: Munich, Germany

Registered: 2006-12-30

Posts: 72

Problem with TV-card

Hi everyone....
I got a little problem:
I'm using arch for a few months (~4) now... and I never cared about my tv-card...
Yesterday I thought: let's watch some tv.... and then the problems began...:

[XazZ@darklight ~]$ lspci | grep Philips
05:06.0 Multimedia controller: Philips Semiconductors SAA7134/SAA7135HL Video Broadcast Decoder (rev 01)

I don't know the real name of my tv-card, but it's from a medion pc (no I don't have a medion pc... - I like to build my own PC's)...
I took a look at the gentoo-wiki and found an article about the saa7134
My card should be this one: 12 -> Medion 7134                              [16be:0003]
so I did a

modprobe saa7134 card=12

Then I ran kdetv... but I got a message that video output isn't possible with the current plugin
I've selected the Video4Linux2 plugin (but I get the same error with Video4Linux plugin)

I also tried xdtv...
here is a line of its output:

*** GRABBER DEVICE TYPE = v4l2

- that means the Video4Linux2 in kdetv was right...
If I do a right-click, select "Open Channel Editor..." and then press the "Scan TV (use Xterm)" button xdtv just closes (also there are *NO* debug messages on the console output - it just closes)

My graphics card is a HIS Radeon X1600 Pro (256 mb RAM) with ati-fglrx-beyond 8.33.6-1 driver on kernel 2.6.19-beyond (kernel26beyond 2.6.19.beyond2-1)

I'm here in Germany and I got cable tv here.... - settings in kdetv for that are right

thanks in advance
XazZ

rayjgu3

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From: Chicago IL usa

Registered: 2004-07-04

Posts: 695

Re: Problem with TV-card

try
pacman -S ivtv
modprobe ivtv
pacman -S mythtv mysql

better yet
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/MythTV_HOWTO

Last edited by rayjgu3 (2007-02-08 22:09:33)

XazZ

Member

From: Munich, Germany

Registered: 2006-12-30

Posts: 72

Re: Problem with TV-card

Sorry that I haven't replied earlier....
I installed ivtv as you said...

...
modprobe ivtv
...

But it seems that there is no ivtv module...

[root@darklight /]# pacman -Qs ivtv
local/ivtv 0.9.1-1
    ivtv - Drivers for many types of PVR cards
local/ivtv-utils 0.9.1-1
    utility package for PVR card drivers
[root@darklight /]# modprobe ivtv
FATAL: Module ivtv not found.

I still have to fix a litte tv-card issue, because its not working on my first pci-slot (lspci don't shows it anymore) - yersterday it had worked in my second one...

thanks in advance
XazZ

XazZ

Member

From: Munich, Germany

Registered: 2006-12-30

Posts: 72

Re: Problem with TV-card

sorry that I haven't replied earlier...
I almost forgot this topic...

My tv-card is still not working...
I've rebuilt the ivtv-package myself...
Now it should work on my 2.6.19-beyond, but it's still not working

I'm not sure if it's better to post in the PKGBUILD section... but I uploaded the binary package of ivtv and ivtv-utils for kernel 2.6.19-beyond
The PKGBUILD + patches + all needed stuff is also included
[You can grab it here: http://download.yousendit.com/47B85EB00B375740]

I also did a tv-channel search with scantv - you can grab the output here: http://phpfi.com/216457

Thanks in advance
XazZ

festgreifaah

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Registered: 2006-06-12

Posts: 51

Re: Problem with TV-card

Is there a video device entry in /dev,something like "/dev/video0"?
Do your programs choose the right device?
Can some debug options be passed to xdtv or kdetv? Then there could be some more helpful messages.
Run "dmesg" in a terminal after you loaded the saa7134 module and post, what it says.

XazZ

Member

From: Munich, Germany

Registered: 2006-12-30

Posts: 72

Re: Problem with TV-card

Hi...

Thanks for your reply
Here is the output of dmesg after running modprobe saa7134 card=12:

saa7130/34: v4l2 driver version 0.2.14 loaded
saa7134[0]: found at 0000:05:06.0, rev: 1, irq: 18, latency: 32, mmio: 0xd2000000
saa7134[0]: subsystem: 16be:0003, board: Medion 7134 [card=12,insmod option]
saa7134[0]: board init: gpio is 0
tuner 0-0043: chip found @ 0x86 (saa7134[0])
tda9887 0-0043: tda988[5/6/7] found @ 0x43 (tuner)
tuner 0-0061: chip found @ 0xc2 (saa7134[0])
tuner 0-0061: type set to 63 (Philips FMD1216ME MK3 Hybrid Tuner)
tuner 0-0061: type set to 63 (Philips FMD1216ME MK3 Hybrid Tuner)
saa7134[0]: i2c eeprom 00: be 16 03 00 54 20 1c 00 43 43 a9 1c 55 d2 b2 92
saa7134[0]: i2c eeprom 10: 00 ff 86 0f ff 20 ff 00 01 50 32 79 01 3c ca 50
saa7134[0]: i2c eeprom 20: 01 40 01 02 02 03 01 00 06 ff 00 1f 02 51 96 2b
saa7134[0]: i2c eeprom 30: a7 58 7a 1f 03 8e 84 5e da 7a 04 b3 05 87 b2 3c
saa7134[0]: i2c eeprom 40: ff 1d 00 c2 86 10 01 01 00 00 fd 79 44 9f c2 8f
saa7134[0]: i2c eeprom 50: ff ff ff ff ff ff 06 06 0f 00 0f 00 0f 00 0f 00
saa7134[0]: i2c eeprom 60: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
saa7134[0]: i2c eeprom 70: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
saa7134[0] Board has DVB-T
saa7134[0] Tuner type is 63
saa7134[0]: registered device video0 [v4l2]
saa7134[0]: registered device vbi0
saa7134[0]: registered device radio0

The devices entry in /dev exists:

[XazZ@darklight dev]$ ls | grep video
video
video0

kdetv takes /dev/vbi as device [kdetv's output is: Successful opened /dev/vbi (Medion 7134)], /dev/vbi exists:

[XazZ@darklight dev]$ ls | grep vbi
vbi
vbi0

And here comes one more output:

[XazZ@darklight v4l]$ ls /dev/v4l/
radio0  vbi0  video0

And here you can find the kdetv output: http://phpfi.com/216501

XazZ

festgreifaah

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Registered: 2006-06-12

Posts: 51

Re: Problem with TV-card

Sorry, but by now I can't help you any more.
I have a saa7134 card in my old computer, but it's an older typhoon card, without dvb support. I'll have access to it next week, then I can compare your dmesg output with mine.

In the meantime, you could try some other programs like tvtime or xawtv, these are the programs I used.

XazZ

Member

From: Munich, Germany

Registered: 2006-12-30

Posts: 72

Re: Problem with TV-card

That would be very nice

I don't need digital TV
I only got analog cable here

tvtime won't work because I'm using the fglrx driver for my graphics card (a Radeon X1600PRO)
And I'll try xawtv later...

XazZ