Hi,

I've been battling a week now to get the KWorld TV/FM Tuner to function with Fedora Core 7. (2.6.22.5-76.fc7)

The distro has been updated with yum and my lspci output is as follows:-

05:00.0 Multimedia controller: Philips Semiconductors SAA7133/SAA7135 Video Broadcast Decoder (rev f0)
Subsystem: Philips Semiconductors KWorld V-Stream Studio TV Terminator
Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B-
Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
Latency: 64 (3750ns min, 9500ns max)
Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 19
Region 0: Memory at febff800 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=2K]
Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 2
Flags: PMEClk- DSI- D1+ D2+ AuxCurrent=0mA PME(D0-,D1-,D2-,D3hot-,D3cold-)
Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME-

I simply can't get the correct options passed to the saa7134 module for it to work with either TVTIME or KDETV....

The phyical detail on the card is as follows:-

Chip 1 : Phillips HEF4052BT
AV51417
UNG05445

Chip 2 : TEA 5767
GERS16
TP905452

Chip 3 : Phillips SAA7135HL
CD5630 01
TSG05251

Board: 713XTB VRE: J

Marked : DK and I

Sticker at the back : VS-TV7134RF
06053062843

Does anyone have ANY knowledge on these cards? This is utmost frustrating.

Any assistance will be greatly appreciated.

This card is listed in the kernel source documentation (Documentation/video4linux/CARDLIST.saa7134) as #65, so card=65 would be a good starting point. There is another file CARDLIST.tuner which suggests your Chip 2 may be a Phillips FM tuner (so tuner=62 would be worth trying also).

Hope that helps.

Hi

Thanks for the reply.

I searched the whole machine for any files called "CARDLIST", yet found zipoula... aaah, thus installed kernel-docs.... And voila, finally found the CARDLIST.* files.

Yet, I have tried the card=65 option before and once again, with NO results...

Is the "saa7133[0]: Huh, no eeprom present (err=-5)?" output within DMESG any reason for concern?

The box is labeled: KWORLD TV Tuner Expert - The smartest way to watch TV on PC
PVR-TV
Real-Time MPEG 4/2/1 Encoding
Time-Shifting / PIP Playback
Teletext for PAL System
Schedule Recording in PC Power-Off Mode
Burn onto DVD,VCD,SVCD...

Product Type: PVR-TV 7134 (supports NICAM / A2)

P.S. tvtime-scanner doesn't find ANY channels.

Man! this card is irritating...

Thanks

Sorry that didn't fix your problem. Maybe another case of manufacturers selling different hardware with same name/model number. Can't suggest much more than Google + trial and error. Googling your eeprom error message gives some possible leads, e.g.:

http://archives.devshed.com/forums/l...s-2085721.html

I have the card working on my machine...

add these lines to your modprob.con

alias char-major-81 videodev
alias char-major-81-0 saa7134

then create a file (lets call it saa7134) in /etc/modprob.d/

and add

options saa7134 card=65 tuner=54
alias snd-card-1 saa7134-alsa
options snd-card-1 index=1
remove saa7134-alsa { /usr/sbin/alsactl store 0 >/dev/null 2>&1 || : ; }; /sbin/modprobe -r --ignore-remove saa7134-alsa

Then all should be well