Hey,

I have a Terratec Cynergy 600 TV/FM card installed on my comp. TV is working perfect on my system, but I cant activate the FM section of the card. KRadio is not working ( I think because it is for digital card only).
Maybe there is somebody who successfully solved this problem??

How do you modprobe the card? Do you have the radio devices created? Try this:

ls -l /dev/radio*

If you have radio devices, they will appear here.

When the driver module is correctly inserted, it creates the needed devices. My bttv capture card driver is quite uncapable of probing the card's features, so I have to provide that info, doing:

modprobe bttv card=37 tuner=2 radio=1

radio=0 would be no radio at all.

You have to try and figure out what are the params for the saa7134 driver for your card.

Hello bruno buys,

thanks for your answer. With the command ls -l /dev/radio* I get the following:

p@linux:~> ls -l /dev/radio*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 6 2005-08-29 23:06 /dev/radio -> radio0
crw------- 1 bgorjup audio 81, 64 2005-05-31 03:46 /dev/radio0
crw------- 1 bgorjup audio 81, 65 2005-05-31 03:46 /dev/radio1
crw------- 1 bgorjup audio 81, 66 2005-05-31 03:46 /dev/radio2
crw------- 1 bgorjup audio 81, 67 2005-05-31 03:46 /dev/radio3

My TV card is set (for TV) automatically. So I dont know the exact parameters, but I can try and find (if) on Phillips site.

What can I do with the above settings??

regards

The above are not actually settings, but devices. What they tell us is that the tv card driver can see the radio device.

Try to open kradio and check its settings. Under v4l configs, check what device is it trying to use. The correct one seems to be /dev/radio (the link to radio0, according to the above).

Also, you can check how the tv card outputs audio to the rest of the system. If you can see tv perfectly, try to use the same audio channel, on your mixer, for radio.

And take a look what dmesg tell us about this driver:

dmesg|grep saa7134

this shall do the trick.

Hello bruno buys,

I have installed again KRadio. It is strange when I start it , the CPU goes up to 100%. Starting "search stations" it goes to the firs station, I can hear audio, and then stops.

The results

bgorjup@linux:~> dmesg|grep saa7134
saa7134[0]: found at 0000:02:07.0, rev: 1, irq: 193, latency: 64, mmio: 0xff5ffc00
saa7134[0]: subsystem: 153b:1158, board: Terratec Cinergy 600 TV MK3 [card=48,autodetected]
saa7134[0]: board init: gpio is 50000
saa7134[0]: registered input device for IR
saa7134[0]: i2c eeprom 00: 3b 15 58 11 ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
saa7134[0]: i2c eeprom 10: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
saa7134[0]: i2c eeprom 20: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
saa7134[0]: i2c eeprom 30: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
tuner: chip found at addr 0xc0 i2c-bus saa7134[0]
tuner: type set to 38 (Philips PAL/SECAM multi (FM1216ME MK3)) by saa7134[0]
saa7134[0]: registered device video0 [v4l2]
saa7134[0]: registered device vbi0
saa7134[0]: registered device radio0
saa7134[0]/audio: audio carrier scan failed, using 5.500 MHz [default]
saa7134[0]/audio: audio carrier scan failed, using 5.500 MHz [last detected]
saa7134[0]/audio: audio carrier scan failed, using 5.500 MHz [last detected]
saa7134[0]/audio: audio carrier scan failed, using 5.500 MHz [last detected]
saa7134[0]/audio: audio carrier scan failed, using 5.500 MHz [last detected]
saa7134[0]/audio: audio carrier scan failed, using 5.500 MHz [last detected]
bgorjup@linux:~>

I am sorry to disturb you with, probably, very simple thing, but I cant solve the problem alone. I am still a noob with regards to LINUX.

Hi riba,
I did some research on this. It seems to me (although I can be wrong) that the saa driver is misdetecting some features on your card. I suggest you do the following:

- Read this: http://linux.bytesex.org/v4l2/faq.html
It has some tricks on tv drivers, maybe it can help.

- Have this list handy: http://www.linuxtv.org/v4lwiki/index...RDLIST.saa7134
This list translates card brands into numbers that can supplied to modprobe, like below.

- Try to play with the options for loading the driver correctly. For example:

rmmod saa7134 # Every time you try, you have to remove the module before you modprobe, otherwise it won't work.
modprobe saa7134 card=11 #Seems to be yours, right?

You can try with a 'tuner' option, the same way. A list of tuners can be found here: http://gentoo-wiki.com/HARDWARE_saa7134. This wiki from gentoo has lots of information. but you have to figure what is gentoo-specific.

So, you have to load the module, try to play radio with kradio, if it doesn't work, check out dmesg, the last lines will be from your loading/removing modules acitvity. This is more or less the hacking flow...
Post again if you need more help.



EDIT: For your reference, my modprobing correct is:
modprobe bttv card=37 tuner=2 radio=1 gbuffers=32

Lots of wrong things can happen when the tuner driver isn't loaded. Both radio and tv can't switch channels...

Hello bruno,

Thank you for your help. I have read all the articles regarding setup of my TV card. I must say that TV is working excellent. My card was autodetected as card 48 and tuner=38. That is correct. But there is no radio. I tried to set radio to 1, but no success. As I said, when I start KRadio, my CPU goes up to 100% and everything stops, I mean, I can do nothing to KRadio. I have to kill the process to restart it again. It is really wery strange because when I am watching TV, CPU goes up to 20% max.

I have been looking for some other radio package but there is none or???

Really wery strange.

What version do you have? Did you try to compile the latest release of kradio?

Hi bruno,

right now I am trying KRadio. It is the version 0.2.7a(using KDE 3.4.0 Level "b" SUSE 9.3).
Till now no success. In general options I have set up radio to /dev/radio0. Now I am trying to switch on KRadio but I cant. I cant start it to search stations.

regards