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Hi there also same situation, have a look. My card is Mercury. Never found an easy step-by step install guide, maybe someone could help someday newbies like me and others.
So please anyone more experienced help us configure the cards. Personally just switched from Windoze and decided never to go back, no matter how hard it would be to learn Linux.
at least im not alone
what system ur on? did u tried to set card=2 and tuner=39 ??
this card was working fine earlier on FC4 and ubuntu so its doable but still havnt found any solution... and cant get acces to the old disk with ubuntu to have a look what numbers that was..
Actually I'm totally lost, because I installed beryl (compiz) and emerald and screwed my Xorg configuration, so I always have to login at console then type in startx and so I get into gnome.
I used to know how to set the TV card numbers, but lost the link to a very good tutorial and never found it again. So please can you remind me what is to be done to setup the card ? I know this sounds stupid but I'm a fast learner, I don't get scared of the command line anymore.
System specs : AMD Sempron 2600+, 1 GB DDRAM 400, VIA Chipset ASROCK K7VT4A PRO Motherboard, SoundBlaster Live!, 160 GB SATA Western Digital Drive, SONY DVD-RW +-, SONY CD-RW, FUJI FINE PICS A210 Camera and USB connected CANON scanner CANOSCAN D646U.
Let's hope that someone will find this thread and help us with a complete step-by step guide. I'd try make one myself but I'm not that experienced yet.
do (as root):
modprobe saa7134 card=2 tuner=39
(might have to do in the path is not set: /sbin/modprobe ......)
that should load saa7134 module into kernel, then run tvtime and see if thers any input, if not - do /sbin/rmmod saa7134 to unload it and try some other settings... plenty of them...
Thanks will sure do try but until then let me say I fixed my Xorg config all by myself (noob here).
Also found this thing here about how some1 managed to get his Mercury card working.
By the way, which software are you using for viewing TV and what distribution ?
Last edited by cosmint_1973; 10-19-2006 at 03:51 AM.
there will be a setting in /etc/modprobe.preload with the line:
saa7134
on the same line put "card=n tuner=n" without quotes, and replace "n" according to what the number should be. after doing that with my card, i now get to see and change channels - but no audio.
Easy fix, to make it work run (in root): rmmod saa7134
modprobe saa7134 card=3 tuner=39
It will most likely work. If it does, read the rest to put these commands at startup so you wont need to execute them everytime you want to watch tv.
First, undo any changes to any config files you may have modified to try to make it work. Log in as root. In your startup script (in my case its boot.local) in /etc/init.d i put these lines and it works perfect.
rmmod saa7134
modprobe saa7134 card=3 tuner=39
What happens is that the driver settings the kernel assigns are not properly configured and if you just modprobe without rmmodding, it'll add to the mess (if it even works).
NOTE FOR XGL/COMPIZ USERS: If you're using compiz/xgl you will notice that the image is gargled (in kdetv anyway) but not when Desktop Effects are disabled. In kdetv, go in Settings>Configure kdetv. Now go in the Image Filters tab, uncheck Overscan.
A better method of removing modules is to use the -r option with modprobe. This will remove any dependent modules that aren't being used as well. The manpage for rmmod even recommends this.
Also rather than removing the module and adding it back in via a script (an ugly hack, if you ask me), you should add some lines to /etc/modules.conf like so:
Where do you get "type"?
wouldnt it be options saa7134 card=3 tuner=39
Quote:
Originally Posted by ciotog
A better method of removing modules is to use the -r option with modprobe. This will remove any dependent modules that aren't being used as well. The manpage for rmmod even recommends this.
Also rather than removing the module and adding it back in via a script (an ugly hack, if you ask me), you should add some lines to /etc/modules.conf like so:
That should work too - in fact on my system the files in /etc/modprobe.d are used instead of modules.conf, and I created the file tvtuner there which has options cx88xx card=50 tuner=69. So in other words there may be more to it depending on how your system is set up.
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I'm lost for now
