Hi,

I have a Lifeview FlyTV 35 Platinum TV Card which I am having trouble getting to work. I read that it would be best if I upgraded to the latest 2.6.11 kernel, which I have done. From what I can see the card modules are loaded but it still fail to get detected by TV apps. Anyone point me in the right direction?


Here is some information

lsmod

xzawtv -hwscan
If any other information is need please ask away

Thanks

I can now load the module by doing

The card is now found by tvtime. The only problem with the card now is that I dont know that to set the turner option to, anyone know?

For a very similar card this is what I did to get it working

(1) Download the snapshots at:
http://dl.bytesex.org/cvs-snapshots/...-221421.tar.gz (4 April 2005)
(Better to use the newer versions at http://linuxtv.org/cvs.php use on-the-fly generated tarballs at the bottom of the page)
(2) Extract to /usr/src/
(3) Enter the video4linux folder
(4) make
(5) make install
(6) A new folder is created /lib/modules/2.6.11.7A/v4l2/ which contains the updated ko files - there is no need to update the modules in /lib/modules/2.6.11.7A/ itself.
(7) lsmod - list the current modules, lspci -vn for other info
Unload the current modules
(8) rmmod tuner
(9) rmmod saa7134
Reload the modules: LifeView FlyTV Platinum = Genius VideoWonder ProTV (SAA7135 and TDA8275 Tuner)
(10) modprobe saa7134 card=54 tuner=54
(11) dmesg (or dmesg | grep 7134) - check that both tuner and saa7134 is loaded and that video0 and radio0 created

xawt and gnomeradio (mono only and 4MHz offset in frequency) then works

Links:
http://www.spinics.net/lists/vfl/
http://linux.bytesex.org/v4l2/saa7134.html
http://www.exploits.org/v4l/

Thanks very much for that, some how the channel picture is really crap tho but am sure I will figure it out... I hope

I cant get the radio to work, it never pics up any channels. I think it might have something to do with the same reason I get crappy quailty channels. Any ideas?


Thanks again

post a query in the video4linux mailinglist - in that list Peter Missel helped me to get my Lifeview card working
links:
https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listi...deo4linux-list
http://www.spinics.net/lists/vfl/

edit:
I saw your post on the v4l list - I am sure either Peter Missel or Hermann Pitton will answer you soon. Just as note tuner.c is a bit broken as it tunes fm stations but with an offset in the frequency - so when you look for stations scan the whole frequency range. The version of tuner.c that I use is from the april snapshots rather than the newest tarball.