hello everyone

i bought a "epro" analog tv tuner card with fm a few days ago which works just fine, the card was autodetected as "sabrent sbttvfm" with a saa7130/4 philips semiconducter. i check and turns out the autodetection was correct.

yet my problem lies with the irda receiver supplied with the card, which connects to the cards rear end, through a 2.5 mm jack.

i know for a fact that activating the irda port in the card must come through detection of an "event" in /proc/bus/input/devices which the system recognized, and here is mine:

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I: Bus=0017 Vendor=0001 Product=0001 Version=0100
N: Name="Macintosh mouse button emulation"
P: Phys=
S: Sysfs=/devices/virtual/input/input0
U: Uniq=
H: Handlers=mouse0 event0
B: EV=7
B: KEY=70000 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
B: REL=3

I: Bus=0003 Vendor=045e Product=0752 Version=0111
N: Name="Microsoft Wired Keyboard 400"
P: Phys=usb-0000:00:13.0-2/input0
S: Sysfs=/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:13.0/usb1/1-2/1-2:1.0/input/input2
U: Uniq=
H: Handlers=kbd event1
B: EV=120013
B: KEY=10000 7 ff9f207a c14057ff febeffdf ffefffff ffffffff fffffffe
B: MSC=10
B: LED=7

I: Bus=0010 Vendor=001f Product=0001 Version=0100
N: Name="PC Speaker"
P: Phys=isa0061/input0
S: Sysfs=/devices/platform/pcspkr/input/input3
U: Uniq=
H: Handlers=kbd event2
B: EV=40001
B: SND=6

I: Bus=0011 Vendor=0002 Product=0005 Version=0000
N: Name="ImPS/2 Generic Wheel Mouse"
P: Phys=isa0060/serio1/input0
S: Sysfs=/devices/platform/i8042/serio1/input/input4
U: Uniq=
H: Handlers=mouse1 event3
B: EV=7
B: KEY=70000 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
B: REL=103

I: Bus=0019 Vendor=0000 Product=0002 Version=0000
N: Name="Power Button (FF)"
P: Phys=LNXPWRBN/button/input0
S: Sysfs=/devices/virtual/input/input5
U: Uniq=
H: Handlers=kbd event4
B: EV=3
B: KEY=100000 0 0 0

I: Bus=0019 Vendor=0000 Product=0001 Version=0000
N: Name="Power Button (CM)"
P: Phys=PNP0C0C/button/input0
S: Sysfs=/devices/virtual/input/input6
U: Uniq=
H: Handlers=kbd event5
B: EV=3
B: KEY=100000 0 0 0
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as you can see, there's nothing indicating detection of the irda receiver port...

after spending a few days probing the internet i realized that the problem lies in the driver used to detect the card. the driver "is" the one meant for this card, but it doesn't provide support for the card's irda input.. there's even some guy who wrote a patch for the driver in order to add support for the card's irda input port, but its too old (2005 maybe)..

i searched this and other forums, blogs, howtos, tutorials, reviews..etc.. but to no avail..

i really much appreciate it if someone could be of help here..

MJ

http://www.linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php/Sabrent_SBT-TVFM

Based on what I see on the link I gave here, which is a Linuxtv.org Wiki page last edited May 6 2009, your card works with whatever the latest version of v4l-dvb was at that time.
This wiki page gives some instructions for making the necessary configuration file(s) on your system, in /etc/modprobe.d, and also gives a link to the v4l-dvb repository ( http://www.linuxtv.org/repo/ ) where you would find the latest v4l-dvb package or source-code you would need, if you do not have it already, as well as some instructions on building the kernel module(s) required to use your card.

The page does NOT mention the irda receiver specifically, however, since you mention a patch created a few years ago, and based on some of the mailing-list messages I read about while searching for info about your card, I am going to *guess* that the irda stuff has since been implemented into the v4l-dvb software (just a guess though! I don't have one of those, so I'm just going on what I read there).

You did not mention which linux you are using, but I think it's Ubuntu. Also, I don't know what kernel version your Ubuntu has, so I can't speculate on exactly what procedure you may need to do in order to get the latest v4l-dvb package onto your OS. But, Ubuntu has a package manager which you may need to use to install some stuff, like for example, you may need to install stuff you need to build (compile) the v4l kernel module(s). Your Ubuntu repo may even have a version of v4l-dvb that is suitable, but not being an Ubuntu user, I can't speculate on exactly what the repo offers.

Anyhow, check out those links and let us know what you figure out, and/or if you need further help, and we'll try our best.

Kind regards,
Sasha