tv card saa7134 not found

ruzle0 · 12-09-2005, 10:32 AM

i have a lifeview fly-video card and it is showing on my system as a philips 7134.

i have gone through the forums to try and compare my situation with others, and looked through various howto's but i have just ended up confusing myself.

i have kernel 2.6.11-6mdk from mandriva with kde 3.3, and i remember reading somewhere that sometimes you need to load drivers into kernel 2.6.*** even though they are usually included in recent versions.

here is output from some commands that may help someone who knows what they are doing.

lspci -vv

Code:

00:0a.0 Multimedia controller: Philips Semiconductors SAA7134 (rev 01)
        Subsystem: Animation Technologies Inc.: Unknown device 0138
        Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B-
        Status: Cap+ 66Mhz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
        Latency: 32 (4000ns min, 10000ns max)
        Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 18
        Region 0: Memory at ef014000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=1K]
        Capabilities: <available only to root>

lsmod

Code:

Module                  Size  Used by
sg                     34268  0
ipt_TOS                 1888  12
ipt_REJECT              5600  4
ipt_pkttype             1248  4
ipt_LOG                 6208  8
ipt_state               1376  12
ipt_multiport           2144  0
ipt_conntrack           1984  0
iptable_mangle          2080  1
ip_nat_irc              1568  0
ip_nat_tftp             1280  0
ip_nat_ftp              2272  0
iptable_nat            19068  3 ip_nat_irc,ip_nat_tftp,ip_nat_ftp
ip_conntrack_irc       70384  1 ip_nat_irc
ip_conntrack_tftp       3056  1 ip_nat_tftp
ip_conntrack_ftp       71344  1 ip_nat_ftp
ip_conntrack           37400  9 ipt_state,ipt_conntrack,ip_nat_irc,ip_nat_tftp,ip_nat_ftp,iptable_nat,ip_conntrack_irc,ip_conntrack_tftp,ip_conntrack_ftp
iptable_filter          2144  1
ip_tables              18176  10 ipt_TOS,ipt_REJECT,ipt_pkttype,ipt_LOG,ipt_state,ipt_multiport,ipt_conntrack,iptable_mangle,iptable_nat,iptable_filter
isofs                  31512  2
binfmt_misc             8744  1
md5                     3648  1
ipv6                  232320  16
raw                     6720  1
rfcomm                 33692  0
l2cap                  20644  5 rfcomm
bluetooth              41380  4 rfcomm,l2cap
snd-seq-dummy           2596  0
snd-seq-oss            31584  0
snd-seq-midi-event      6208  1 snd-seq-oss
snd-seq                47472  5 snd-seq-dummy,snd-seq-oss,snd-seq-midi-event
snd-seq-device          6796  3 snd-seq-dummy,snd-seq-oss,snd-seq
snd-pcm-oss            49056  0
snd-mixer-oss          17248  1 snd-pcm-oss
snd-intel8x0           29216  1
snd-ac97-codec         75256  1 snd-intel8x0
snd-pcm                80776  3 snd-pcm-oss,snd-intel8x0,snd-ac97-codec
snd-timer              20324  2 snd-seq,snd-pcm
snd-page-alloc          7588  2 snd-intel8x0,snd-pcm
snd                    46980  11 snd-seq-oss,snd-seq,snd-seq-device,snd-pcm-oss,snd-mixer-oss,snd-intel8x0,snd-ac97-codec,snd-pcm,snd-timer
soundcore               7104  1 snd
parport_pc             31652  1
lp                      9864  0
parport                31624  2 parport_pc,lp
af_packet              16232  0
floppy                 54736  0
8139too                21408  0
mii                     4224  1 8139too
sis900                 17668  0
ide-cd                 36772  1
loop                   13544  0
nls_iso8859-1           3744  1
nls_cp437               5376  1
vfat                   11200  1
fat                    35964  1 vfat
nls_iso8859-15          4288  3
ntfs                  205368  1
supermount             32660  1
sis-agp                 6052  1
agpgart                28264  1 sis-agp
video-buf              16900  0
v4l2-common             4672  0
v4l1-compat            13156  0
i2c-core               19028  0
ir-common               3972  0
videodev                7264  0
sr_mod                 15332  1
sd_mod                 15920  2
aic7xxx               200184  2
scsi_mod              115784  4 sg,sr_mod,sd_mod,aic7xxx
usblp                  10784  0
ehci-hcd               28648  0
ohci-hcd               19112  0
usbcore               106008  4 usblp,ehci-hcd,ohci-hcd
ext3                  123304  3
jbd                    48344  1 ext3

the card works on windows so i know its alive.

with kde tv under video options it says: no devices found

any other outputs required let me know.
i installed the system a couple of weeks ago and the card was present at the time, but i'm new to linux and was worried to try messing around too much without advice from someone.

Electro · 12-10-2005, 04:04 PM

Assuming your card is LifeView Flyvideo 3000. As root or su (do not login into GUI with root), type modprobe saa7134 card=2. If you type dmesg, it should state that it could not find a compatible TV tuner. The card will work without this, but I will get to that in a momment. Next as test type the following as a normal user:
PAL:
mplayer -tv driver=v4l:width=640:height=480:outfmt=i420:input=3:norm=pal -vc rawi420 -vo xv tv://
or
mplayer -tv driver=v4l:width=640:height=480:outfmt=i420:input=4:norm=pal -vc rawi420 -vo xv tv://

NTSC:
mplayer -tv driver=v4l:width=640:height=480:outfmt=i420:input=3:norm=ntsc -vc rawi420 -vo xv tv://
or
mplayer -tv driver=v4l:width=640:height=480:outfmt=i420:input=4:norm=ntsc -vc rawi420 -vo xv tv://

You should see video. The above will use either the composite or S-Video to capture from.

To set up the card to recieve TV stations instead of from Composite (RCA) or S-Video. You need to also pass tuner option to the module while loading it up. I am sorry to say, but it is trial and error to find out what works best. I have LifeView Flyvideo 3000 and tuner number 17 works the best for tuning only TV stations (NTSC), but recieving radio stations is poor.