Running Ubuntu Dapper on a dedicated mythtv/freevo backend. Only inputs that work are S-VIDEO and COMPOSITE. Television refuses to find a channel.

$ lspci

0000:01:08.0 Multimedia controller: Philips Semiconductors SAA7130 Video Broadcast Decoder (rev 01)
Subsystem: Compro Technology, Inc. Compro VideoMate TV PVR/FM
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 66, IRQ 3
Memory at 40200000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=1K]
Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 1

$ ls -al /dev/video* /dev/radio* /dev/vbi*
ls: /dev/radio*: No such file or directory
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 2006-10-10 21:59 /dev/vbi -> vbi0
crw-rw---- 1 root video 81, 224 2006-10-10 21:59 /dev/vbi0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 6 2006-10-10 21:59 /dev/video -> video0
crw-rw---- 1 root video 81, 0 2006-10-10 21:59 /dev/video0

$ groups kash
kash : kash adm dialout cdrom floppy audio dip video plugdev lpadmin scanner admin

$ dmesg
[4381487.701000] saa7130[0]: found at 0000:01:08.0, rev: 1, irq: 3, latency: 66, mmio: 0x40200000
[4381487.702000] saa7130[0]: subsystem: 185b:c100, board: UNKNOWN/GENERIC [card=0,insmod option]
[4381487.703000] saa7130[0]: board init: gpio is 440017
[4381487.830000] saa7130[0]: i2c eeprom 00: 5b 18 00 c1 ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
[4381487.830000] saa7130[0]: i2c eeprom 10: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
[4381487.831000] saa7130[0]: i2c eeprom 20: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
[4381487.831000] saa7130[0]: i2c eeprom 30: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
[4381487.832000] saa7130[0]: i2c eeprom 40: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
[4381487.832000] saa7130[0]: i2c eeprom 50: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff 04 ff 00 05 30 31 cb
[4381487.833000] saa7130[0]: i2c eeprom 60: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
[4381487.833000] saa7130[0]: i2c eeprom 70: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
[4381487.850000] saa7130[0]: i2c scan: found device @ 0xa0 [eeprom]
[4381487.855000] saa7130[0]: i2c scan: found device @ 0xc0 [tuner (analog)]
[4381487.857000] saa7130[0]: i2c scan: found device @ 0xc2 [???]
[4381487.904000] tuner 2-0060: All bytes are equal. It is not a TEA5767
[4381487.904000] tuner 2-0060: chip found @ 0xc0 (saa7130[0])
[4381487.905000] tuner 2-0060: type set to 40 (HITACHI V7-J180AT)
[4381487.907000] tuner 2-0061: chip found @ 0xc2 (saa7130[0])
[4381487.924000] saa7130[0]: registered device video0 [v4l2]
[4381487.925000] saa7130[0]: registered device vbi0
[4381487.973000] saa7134 ALSA driver for DMA sound loaded
[4381487.973000] saa7130[0]/alsa: saa7130[0] at 0x40200000 irq 3 registered as card -1

I've been running a scantv script to go thru all the cards, thus the card number is wrong. I've tried card number 41, tuner 17, and all other combinations.

Fixed the problem. My scantv script came up with card=43 and tuner=43 as the answer to my question. thanks anyways :-)