Dear Linux Users,

Since two days I have searched all the earth for trying to install
my Mercury Tv Tuner Card(saa7130)
LSMOD
shows that saa7130 is loaded.


LSPCI
says I have
0000:06:00.0 Multimedia controller: Philips Semiconductors SAA7130 Video Broadcast Decoder (rev 01)

I need to know how I'd have to go about setting up this thing.
Yaa I know everything abt
modprobe saa7134 tuner=x card=y
thingy...
But I have no idea wat my values are...
And upon setup wat I need to do with
MythTv or TVTime or whateva..
scantv scans no channels...
I tried it...

hey forgot dmesg output

[4294715.040000] saa7130[0]: found at 0000:06:00.0, rev: 1, irq: 21, latency: 32 , mmio: 0xff7ffc00
[4294715.040000] saa7130[0]: subsystem: 18d0:2100, board: UNKNOWN/GENERIC [card= 0,autodetected]
[4294715.040000] saa7130[0]: board init: gpio is 38500
[4294715.151000] saa7130[0]: i2c eeprom 00: d0 18 00 21 10 28 ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
[4294715.151000] saa7130[0]: i2c eeprom 10: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
[4294715.151000] saa7130[0]: i2c eeprom 20: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
[4294715.151000] saa7130[0]: i2c eeprom 30: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
[4294715.166000] saa7130[0]: registered device video0 [v4l2]
[4294715.172000] saa7130[0]: registered device vbi0

I suggest trying all cards in the CARDLIST under the kernel documentation first. If a program like mplayer or tvtime works from using composite or S-Video, then you can try each tuner in the list. I do not recommend using scantv or xawtv because they do not work well with SAA71xx based cards. tvtime works the best and mplayer is second best.

how exactly do I make them work as Composite or S-Vid??
All I get is a blank screen in TVTIME.