No sound from saa7134 Driver w/Generic TV Card

geeker · 06-13-2005, 07:40 PM

Ok, I got this fairly generic-ish TV Card from eBay ('Super Digital Video Dazzle Series - Enjoy your digital life!') for about 20GBP. I can get the saa7134 driver loaded, and it can pick up the card, and it works in TVTime and XawTV - but without sound. I've got the mini-patch lead going from the TV Card's line out to my soundcard's line in, and I've tried everything on the 'Gentoo HARDWARE: TV Cards' page for the saa7134 driver. Still nothing. Searching through the forum has picked up a few results, but without answers. Has anyone solved this problem?

I'm loading the saa7134 module using the following line:

Code:

modprobe saa7134 card=12 tuner=2 oss=1

I think it is right for my card (also tried card=11 but with the same results). My dmesg output is:

Code:

saa7130/34: v4l2 driver version 0.2.12 loaded
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:0a.0[A] -> GSI 18 (level, low) -> IRQ 185
saa7130[0]: found at 0000:00:0a.0, rev: 1, irq: 185, latency: 32, mmio: 0xe0007000
saa7130[0]: subsystem: 1131:0000, board: Medion 7134 [card=12,insmod option]
saa7130[0]: board init: gpio is 38500
saa7130[0]: Huh, no eeprom present (err=-5)?
saa7130[0]: registered device video0 [v4l2]
saa7130[0]: registered device vbi0
saa7130[0]: registered device radio

AFAIK, I've unmuted the TV Card's line out using something along the lines of:

Code:

aumix -l 100

It would be great if someone could point me in the right direction with this - I've been working on it all day, and although I'm not a *NIX newbie, I've never done something like this.

Thanks in advance,

Matt

darksmiley · 06-14-2005, 08:03 PM

yea i had this problem. i think i just did an alsaconf (although i dont think that is necessary), and used alsamixer (command) to unmute my sound card. after that it worked, but that may not be the problem you are having as it sounds like you have tried more than i had.

geeker · 06-15-2005, 06:16 AM

I know that the sound card's line in is definatly working properly. I played around with alsamixer a bit, but for some reason, alsaconf doesn't pick up the line in/out on the TV card. Does anyone know if I'm on the right track by using alsa to configure the TV Card's functions, or do I need to pass more options to the driver?

If its any help, I'm running Gentoo amd64. I know that some stuff isn't fully supported yet, any Gentoo users got this going?