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Old 10-08-2004, 11:48 AM   #1
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Mpeg TV Station/PCI card (philips 7134 chip) and Mandrake 10.0


Hello everyone!!!.
I'd like to learn how to install my TV card in Mandrake. Do you know any links concerning the
matter?.
 
Old 10-08-2004, 04:59 PM   #2
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you need to use the saa7134 driver with v4l2. it's in the 2.6 linux kernel, may well aso be in the back ported 2.4 kernels which i assume you are running. essentially it should just be a case of running "modprobe saa7134" and if it doesn't complain.. watch tv.
 
Old 10-09-2004, 03:41 AM   #3
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Unfortunately it complains. Here's the printout:

"[root@komputer etc]# modprobe saa7134
FATAL: Error inserting saa7134
(/lib/modules/2.6.3-7mdk/kernel/drivers/media/video/saa7134/saa7134.ko.gz): Unknown symbol in
module, or unknown parameter (see dmesg)"

And then I see the dmesg and the end of it is:

"Linux video capture interface: v1.00
saa7134: Unknown parameter `radio'."

This card has got radio tuner.
Could you tell me what's the problem?.
 
Old 10-09-2004, 05:49 AM   #4
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i couldn't say about any particular stuff about this error, but i'll try and cop out recommending that you rebuild you kernel to get a locally compiled module. possibly this could be a bug in the mandrake kernel, but that does sound a bit unlikely.
 
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My philips 7134 chip card and Mandrake 10.0

So, I've made it. I just removed 'radio' parameter from "modprobe.conf" and "modules.conf". I have put see7134 into the "modprobe.conf "file so it would
load at boottime. It doesn't work properly however. When I turn on the xawtv I can watch TV. There is a sound but:
- after turning off the program toolbars vanish from the desktop. System hangs and music doesn't stop. Moreover in 'overlay' mode in fullscreen I can see only 728X528 screen. The rest is black. I must switch to 'grabdisplay' mode to see the picture in real fullscreen. What's the problem?.
 
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hmm ok, a few hopefully independent problems there. firstly the audio.... assuming that the application does actually close correctly, and when you run "ps ax" there's no sign of xawtv (best tv app imho) then i'd recommend writing a small wrapper script or define an alias for xawtv. for example
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xawtv
aumix -l 0
assuming that your tv card is playing into your sound card via line in. just run that instead of xawtv directly and on close, the sound will be muted. not particualry graceful i admit.. but it works. if xawtv is still running, or when you close it from starting it in a terminal, there are visible error messages. you can appraently debug it some way by runnign "xawtv -d 2" but it doesn't give me anythign extra to be honest.

for the fullscreen, i believe you need to load the v4l module for X. in your XF86Config (or xorg.conf) in the Module section, add this
Code:
     Load   "v4l"
that should do the trick after restarting X.
 
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and as i do prefer xawtv to anything else, i'm slighty cautious about suggestnig this, but for the greater good you might prefer a different tv app. TVTime is very popular, and much prettier to boot.
 
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Well... . aumix -l 0 works but you have to use it again or other mixer to get sound when you run
xawtv again.
"Load v4l" makes things even worse. There is only 'overlay' mode available. And TVtime's gone
after 2 or 3 seconds. I think the only way of getting xawtv in fullscreen going is to change the screen resolution. But I like my 1280x1024!. The size of the picture is 708x528. Perhaps you have some other
idea?.
 
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only other thing for the size would be that you're not using xv output possibly... try a few different video output options, e.g xawtv -gl for gl output etc...
 
  


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