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karankadam
24th August 2005, 08:09 PM
I recently purchased a Techcom TV Tuner card. The card works flawlessly in Windows XP with the default drivers installed. It is based on the saa7130 chipset.
My problem is that the card does not get detected in Linux and I am unable to set it up in Linux. I have tried setting up the card in Suse 9.3 pro as well as Fedora Core 4. After reading a lot of articles on the net, I came across a user who had the same card and the same problem. He suggested adding the following line to my /etc/modprobe.conf file -

options saa7134 card=17 tuner=37 gbuffers=4

After adding the above lines i was able to get a clear picture but no sound. The user who gave me this tip also could not get the sound working. I have tried all methods ( changed settings in kmix, alsamixer ) but was of no use. I even tried connecting my speakers to the audio out of the card directly but there was no sound. Most of my work involves working in Linux so I would like to setup the card in Linux.

The output of dmesg | grep saa7130 is -


saa7130/34: v4l2 driver version 0.2.12 loaded
saa7130[0]: found at 0000:00:0a.0, rev: 1, irq: 3, latency: 32, mmio: 0xeb001000
saa7130[0]: subsystem: 1131:2005, board: AOPEN VA1000 POWER [card=17,insmod option]
saa7130[0]: board init: gpio is 131ff
saa7130[0]: i2c eeprom 00: 31 11 05 20 08 20 1c 55 43 43 a9 1c 55 43 43 a9
saa7130[0]: i2c eeprom 10: ff ff 00 00 31 30 4d 4f 4f 4e 53 37 31 33 30 20
saa7130[0]: i2c eeprom 20: 54 05 48 53 ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
saa7130[0]: i2c eeprom 30: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
tuner 1-0060: chip found @ 0xc0 (saa7130[0])
saa7130[0]: registered device video0 [v4l2]
saa7130[0]: registered device vbi0


I would be highly obliged if anyone could help me setup up my Techcom Card Model No. SSD-TV-670. I am on kernel 2.6.11-1.1369_FC4.

jtang613
25th August 2005, 01:53 PM
You can probably find more help on the V4L mailing list.
https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/video4linux-list
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-video&r=1&w=2

Make sure to search the list twice before posting.

m2c,
Jason

manish_m
8th September 2005, 06:08 AM
My friend has the same tuner card.(Techcom SSD-TV-670,KNOPPIX 3.9)
I tried these on KNOPPIX 3.9 (2.6.11 kernel)
modprobe saa7134 card=3 tuner=5
It's working (both tv and radio)
once you tune the channels, just open aumix and increase the volume for line and PCM.
But I am unable to record tv. Can anybody help me..

frodopunk
22nd January 2006, 12:24 PM
I have a phillips proteus 7130 card and I found this site most helpful for setting up my card http://gentoo-wiki.com/HARDWARE_saa7134 my card works in tvtime,xdtv,and mythtv.
I have also tried out freevo,and xawtv but for recording mythtv works very well for me.