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Old 04-16-2006, 09:45 AM   #1
stevod333
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PCI TV card - no options for tuner or tv available


I have a fairly new TV card - a Compro brand Videomate DVB-T200 that uses the Phillips SAA7130/7134 chipset.

Running Fedora core 5, kernel 2.6.16-1.2080

I have tried using TVtime to use the card but it only gives me the options for input source "composite" and "s-video", but no option for "tv" or "tuner" etc...
I also installed xine media player and on it's first-run-setup it displayed a message, something like "no tuner device available"

The card works perfectly in Windows, so obviously there is no hardware fault.


Following is an excert from dmesg:

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Linux video capture interface: v1.00
nvidia: module license 'NVIDIA' taints kernel.
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:02:00.0[A] -> Link [APC4] -> GSI 19 (level, high) -> IRQ 17
NVRM: loading NVIDIA Linux x86 Kernel Module 1.0-8756 Wed Mar 29 14:26:26 PST 2006
saa7130/34: v4l2 driver version 0.2.14 loaded
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [APC1] enabled at IRQ 16
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:01:0a.0[A] -> Link [APC1] -> GSI 16 (level, high) -> IRQ 18
saa7130[0]: found at 0000:01:0a.0, rev: 1, irq: 18, latency: 32, mmio: 0xec000000
saa7130[0]: subsystem: 185b:c901, board: Compro Videomate DVB-T200 [card=71,autodetected]
saa7130[0]: board init: gpio is 853fc6
input: saa7134 IR (Compro Videomate DV as /class/input/input2
saa7130[0]: i2c eeprom 00: 5b 18 01 c9 54 20 1c 00 43 43 a9 1c 55 d2 b2 92
saa7130[0]: i2c eeprom 10: 00 ff 86 0f ff 20 ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
saa7130[0]: i2c eeprom 20: 01 40 01 03 03 ff 03 01 08 ff 00 88 ff ff ff ff
saa7130[0]: i2c eeprom 30: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
saa7130[0]: i2c eeprom 40: ff 02 00 c2 86 10 ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
saa7130[0]: i2c eeprom 50: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff cb
saa7130[0]: i2c eeprom 60: 30 ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
saa7130[0]: i2c eeprom 70: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
saa7130[0]: registered device video0 [v4l2]
saa7130[0]: registered device vbi0
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Also, here is the output of /sbin/lspci:

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00:00.0 Host bridge: nVidia Corporation nForce2 AGP (different version?) (rev c1)
00:00.1 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation nForce2 Memory Controller 0 (rev c1)
00:00.2 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation nForce2 Memory Controller 4 (rev c1)
00:00.3 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation nForce2 Memory Controller 3 (rev c1)
00:00.4 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation nForce2 Memory Controller 2 (rev c1)
00:00.5 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation nForce2 Memory Controller 5 (rev c1)
00:01.0 ISA bridge: nVidia Corporation nForce2 ISA Bridge (rev a4)
00:01.1 SMBus: nVidia Corporation nForce2 SMBus (MCP) (rev a2)
00:02.0 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation nForce2 USB Controller (rev a4)
00:02.1 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation nForce2 USB Controller (rev a4)
00:02.2 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation nForce2 USB Controller (rev a4)
00:04.0 Ethernet controller: nVidia Corporation nForce2 Ethernet Controller (rev a1)
00:08.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation nForce2 External PCI Bridge (rev a3)
00:09.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation nForce2 IDE (rev a2)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation nForce2 AGP (rev c1)
01:07.0 Multimedia audio controller: Creative Labs SB Live! EMU10k1 (rev 07)
01:07.1 Input device controller: Creative Labs SB Live! MIDI/Game Port (rev 07)
01:0a.0 Multimedia controller: Philips Semiconductors SAA7130 Video Broadcast Decoder (rev 01)
02:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV11DDR [GeForce2 MX 100 DDR/200 DDR] (rev b2)
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Does anyone have any ideas why I can't get the tuner side of the card to work?
Any suggestions of alternative TV viewers?

Kind regards,
Steve.
 
Old 04-17-2006, 10:26 AM   #2
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You haven't mentioned installing a driver /firware, so I wonder it that's your problem. There's a driver at http://linux.bytesex.org/v4l2/saa7134.html and info at http://www.linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php/PCI_devices_DVB-T
I don't have this card so can't vouch for the info.

Last edited by rjwilmsi; 04-17-2006 at 10:29 AM.
 
  


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