WinTV GO-Plus no sound

leupi · 10-30-2005, 04:52 PM

I have Suse Linux 10 and a Hauppauge WinTV GO-Plus TV tuner card. I used kdetv and it scanned my channels and everything seems to work fine except that I have no sound. I have sound in Linux with everything else so I know that the sound card is fine. The card also works under Windows so I know that the card is fine. From what I have seen the card should work in Linux.

I have two sound cards on the computer, an integrated one and a PCI SoundBlaster. I 'removed' the integrated one but is it possible that it is causing the problem? Thanks.

Todd

maroonbaboon · 10-31-2005, 03:49 PM

Some TV cards need to be connected to the sound card with an external jumper cable (usually supplied with the unit). Otherwise...

I think this card is using the bttv driver. You can check for this in the output of 'lsmod'. This needs to be loaded with the correct options for this particular model. There is documentation for using the driver in the kernel source code (file Documentation/video4linux/bttv) and also at the home site for the driver (www.bytesex.org).

Another posssibility is that sound is coming in on some channel which is currently muted. You could play with alsamixer and see if anything is there. You may have to set the capture as well as output channel.

leupi · 11-26-2005, 05:35 PM

I appreciate the reply. I did lsmod and found this:

Code:

tparks@linux:~> lsmod | grep bttv
bttv                  154512  2
video_buf              20868  1 bttv
firmware_class          9856  1 bttv
i2c_algo_bit            9096  1 bttv
v4l2_common             5760  1 bttv
btcx_risc               5000  1 bttv
ivtv_tveeprom          12588  1 bttv
videodev                9088  4 pwc,bttv
i2c_core               20368  6 tuner,tvaudio,bttv,i2c_algo_bit,ivtv_tveeprom,i2c_i801

So I am assuming that you are right about it using the bttv driver.

You mention that it has to be loaded with the correct options and then mention:

Quote:

There is documentation for using the driver in the kernel source code (file Documentation/video4linux/bttv)

This may sound like a foolish question, but what is 'Documentation/video4linux/bttv'? I also went to www.bytesex.org but was not sure how to proceed. Perhaps I was looking in the wrong area? Thanks for your help, it is appreciated.

Todd

auditek747 · 11-27-2005, 12:36 AM

I have a Wintv GO and I use the jumper.

leupi · 11-27-2005, 09:04 AM

I have the jumper installed also and it works under Windows so that would tell me that it is a software issue (drivers?) under Linux.

Todd

leupi · 03-25-2006, 05:52 PM

I went to http://www.bytesex.org/ trying to find the above mentioned driver for my TV tuner card and found this on the page:

Quote:

Driver releases are available for download right here. Note that the bttv driver also is included in the standard kernel.

Does this mean that I already have the driver? Any advice is appreciated. Thanks.

Todd