I am running Mandrake 9.2 on an Athlon XP2400 with a LifeView Flyvideo 3000 TV/FM card (Philips SAA7134 chipset). I got great help from forums here on how to use TVtime to get TV going. Has anyone found a suitable FM radio app that will work with this card?

Kradio works great for me, or you can just type radio into a console

Thanks Bruce. Will try Kradio. Tried out OZradio earlier today (it arrived with the DVD for Linux Format magazine last September) with encouraging results. This app is early in its development cycle and was confused by what might be poor reception. After all the trouble I've had getting the TV tuner to work, had expected that the FM tuner would be as difficult - maybe not so. Will report back after trying Kradio - hope its one of the KDE apps that will run under my preferred desktop (gnome).

Thanks Bruce, gnomeradio downloaded and installed. works well. 1 minor issue that I wil email gnomeradio about is that it won't mute the card on exit. To mute it I start TVtime which seems to successfully mute the card's output. May also try Kradio. I note that simply typing radio into a console won't bring up an applet - I guess that it depends on the distro etc. Thanks for the help. Will leave this open for another day or so in case someone has advice on the "mute on exit problem".

Can you help me i have a Lifeview Flyvideo 3000 FM tuner on SAA7134 card and canot get it gowing in Mandrake 9.0 thinking to update to Mandrake 10.0

As a new user I had real problems with Mdk 9.0, and was relieved when Mdk 9.1 came along. It was much more stable, but I still needed a decent package manager gui to give me confidence to start installing software and tinkering. Mdk 9.2 has helped with better gui tools for installing software (but its very flaky compared with 9.1), and I am a little more confident. This has allowed me to install gnomeradio and tinker with it.

As a new user, I am reluctant to give advice, but I would suggest that you have a look in the Mandrake Control Centre (MCC) , select the hardware tab, click on HardDrake, and see whether there is an entry for "SAA 7134" under "other multimedia devices" or something similar. If so, then you're in luck as the kernel has detected the card - all you need now is an app to make it do radio and TV stuff. (This is where gnomeradio or kradio come in depending on which desktop you prefer)

If there is no entry, then the kernel has not detected the card, and you might be best advised as a new user to go to a later version of Mandrake. (I have a feeling that 9.0 didn't detect the card when I was tinkering with it some months ago).

Hope this helps.

julius, does sound from your sound card work throught your tv card?

I've got the same card. My sound card output is connected to radio card input, but i gen so sound from system, only radio and tv works.

However, if I connect sound output to sound card - all works perfectly.

No, I haven't tried using the audio input on my Flyvideo card yet. This is probably used in conjunction with the "composite video in" for reviewing and recording material from a VCR or DVD player using audio and video outputs on the DVD/VCR system. If you are using "audio in" to accept audio output from your sound card, I suspect that you are trying to dub a commentary or other audio material over an RF signal received by the Flyvideo card. In this case it would be better to record the material from the Flyvideo (either an FM or TV transmission) and use editing software to dub your audio over the top later. Perhaps if you let us know what you are trying to achieve, we might be able to get some help, as I suspect that there will be some contention trying to use the audio output from your sound card while the Flyvideo is active in the system. Hope this is of some use.

I was mistaken. I used to connect sound card line-out to Flyvideo line-in.

By the way, have you solved a problem with radio, when it is imposibble to turn it off?
I'm using gkrellm radio plug.
(But when I turn on & off xawtv. Radio stops playing)

No, I have been working on other things and really needed to find a way to run the card and then mute it afterward. So I'm using gnomeradio to run the FM tuner, and when I have shut down gnomeradio (and the audio continues), I run TVtime and when I shut that down, the audio mutes nicely. Its a kludge, but it works for the moment.

Hi people!
I saw many people that made TV cards with Philips SAA7134 chip working good!
I've got good feedback only on video but NO SOUND!
More over "modprobe saa7134" what is it necessary?
Tnx for every suggestion!
ALBE