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General => Users => Topic started by: unruelysock on March 22, 2008, 09:55:18 pm
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this card was a gift and i want to know if it will work in LMCE as a generic card. windows installed a driver for it as a saa7131. the chipset looks to have some relation to philips the card has a model #7130fm (that by the way is all the info in the card) and comes with a remote and a fm tuner.
so if some one could help me through this or point me in a direction to start to learn how to do this i would be greatful.
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The card isn't natively supported in linuxMCE, but i'm guessing it should work setting it up in mythtv.
I think kubuntu 0710 lacks the driver for it so you have to download the video4linux drivers and install them ->
sudo apt-get install mercurial
hg clone http://linuxtv.org/hg/v4l-dvb
cd v4l-dvb
sudo apt-get install ncurses-dev
sudo make menuconfig
make
sudo make install
sudo nano /etc/modprobe.d/options
<then add:>
options saa7134 card=65 tuner=54
<then>
sudo make load
reboot and enter the mythtv setup from the computing tab of your orbiter; choose capture cards and see if yours is listed.
I'm guess that the remote will be difficult to set up. Best buy a seperate one, like the MCE remote and usb transceiver.
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The card isn't natively supported in linuxMCE, but i'm guessing it should work setting it up in mythtv.
I think kubuntu 0710 lacks the driver for it so you have to download the video4linux drivers and install them ->
sudo apt-get install mercurial
hg clone http://linuxtv.org/hg/v4l-dvb
cd v4l-dvb
sudo apt-get install ncurses-dev
sudo make menuconfig
make
sudo make install
sudo nano /etc/modprobe.d/options
<then add:>
options saa7134 card=65 tuner=54
<then>
sudo make load
reboot and enter the mythtv setup from the computing tab of your orbiter; choose capture cards and see if yours is listed.
I'm guess that the remote will be difficult to set up. Best buy a seperate one, like the MCE remote and usb transceiver.
The saa7134 module is already installed nut not loaded by default;
lsmod | grep saa* <return>
dcerouter_66616:~# lsmod | grep saa*
cpufreq_powersave 3072 0
sata_nv 24068 0
libata 138928 2 sata_nv,ata_generic
The above line will find any modules currently loaded that start with 'saa'... you will probably get none returned. So do this;
sudo modprobe saa7134 <return>
dcerouter_66616:~# modprobe saa7134
Now do the lsmod line again;
lsmod | grep saa* <return>
and you should see something like this;
dcerouter_:~# lsmod | grep saa*
saa7134 148308 0
ir_kbd_i2c 11536 1 saa7134
cpufreq_powersave 3072 0
ir_common 38916 3 saa7134,ir_kbd_i2c,cx88xx
compat_ioctl32 11136 3 saa7134,cpia,cx8800
videodev 31360 4 saa7134,cpia,cx8800,cx88xx
v4l2_common 21888 5 saa7134,cx8800,cx88xx,compat_ioctl32,videodev
v4l1_compat 15364 2 saa7134,videodev
video_buf 30084 6 saa7134,cx88_dvb,video_buf_dvb,cx8802,cx8800,cx88xx
i2c_core 30208 18 saa7134,ir_kbd_i2c,mt2060,isl6421,cx24123,cx88_dvb,cx88_vp3054_i2c,dib7000m,dib7000p,dvb_usb,dvb_pll,cx88xx,dib3000mc,dibx000_common,i2c_algo_bit,tveeprom,i2c_nforce2,nvidia
sata_nv 24068 0
libata 138928 2 sata_nv,ata_generic
Hope this helps
Andrew
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lsmod | grep saa* <return>
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The above line will find any modules currently loaded that start with 'saa'... you will probably get none returned. ...
Sorry for the lecture but actually "grep saa*" will give you all the lines with "sa" and then zero or more additional "a"s (anywhere in them, not just the start), even worse when there is a file in the current directory whose name starts with "saa" the shell will substitute it as there are no quotes.
To only grep lines starting with "saa" use: "grep '^saa'". See also REGULAR EXPRESSIONS in the grep man page.
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lsmod | grep saa* <return>
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The above line will find any modules currently loaded that start with 'saa'... you will probably get none returned. ...
Sorry for the lecture but actually "grep saa*" will give you all the lines with "sa" and then zero or more additional "a"s (anywhere in them, not just the start), even worse when there is a file in the current directory whose name starts with "saa" the shell will substitute it as there are no quotes.
To only grep lines starting with "saa" use: "grep '^saa'". See also REGULAR EXPRESSIONS in the grep man page.
Of course you right ;-)
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ok i got the card in stalled but it does not find any channels and is just a black screen.
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ok i installed the card. at first i had a message that said all backend inputs were being used. now all i get is a black screen and i can not see any thing. the overlay is there and there is a channel number but no video.