Please help: TV Tuner card

Michael Gargiullo mgargiullo at warpdrive.net
Tue Sep 14 16:19:06 UTC 2004


Some cards just don't work correctly

Where is this device listed?  /dev/what?

I have a Haupaggue winTV PVR - works beautifully at /dev/video0

What happens if you cat /dev/video0 > test.mpg

Have you looked at /dev/video0-4 ?

On Tue, 2004-09-14 at 12:11, renjoy.henry at wipro.com wrote:
> I am pasting the messages I got .
> 
> The file /etc/syconfig/hwconf gives the message:
> 
> class: OTHER
> 
> bus: PCI
> 
> detached: 0
> 
> driver: saa7134
> 
> desc: "Philips Semiconductors|SAA7130 Video Broadcast Decoder"
> 
> vendorId: 1131
> 
> deviceId: 7130
> 
> subVendorId: 18d0
> 
> subDeviceId: 2100
> 
> pciType: 1
> 
> pcidom: 0
> 
> pcibus: 0
> 
> pcidev: 8
> 
> pcifn: 0
> 
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> 
> When I do an lspci I get this message for the card:
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> 00:08.0 Multimedia controller: Philips Semiconductors SAA7130 Video
> Broadcast Decoder (rev 01)
> 
>  
> 
> [root at localhost saa7134]# pwd
> 
> /usr/src/linux-2.6.5-1.358/drivers/media/video/saa7134
> 
> [root at localhost saa7134]# ls
> 
> Makefile saa7134-cards.c saa7134.h saa7134-input.c saa7134-
> 
> reg.h saa7134-tvaudio.c saa7134-video.c
> 
> saa6752hs.c saa7134-core.c saa7134-i2c.c saa7134-oss.c saa7134-
> 
> ts.c saa7134-vbi.c
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> I think the drivers are installed properly for the TV tuner card. The
> kernel is 2.6.5-1.358 Fedora Core 2.
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> But the tvtime is not able to detect the device since it looks by
> default to the device /dev/video0.
> 
> Also it says only a particular set of drivers are supported by tvtime.
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> What should I do to make this working.
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> Renjoy K Henry
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