Norwood Micro SuperTV PRO Tuner Card

mdulzo · #1 1st December 2006, 11:34 AM

Recently i purchased a Norwood Micro TV Tuner Card. It works well enough on my windows box. Its really the only reason I use windows anymore. Anyways, the card is not recognized under linux. lspci tells me its a Phillips chipset (mostlikely saa7134). Has anyone had any luck installing one of these under linux? I've read about a 1000 webpages with people discussing how to install it and what tuner/card numbers to use in the modprobe.conf file. Ive tried just about all of them and none of them seem to work.

Im using tvtime to attempt to view my tv card's output.

I wish I could provide some more relevant techinical data, but im really not sure whats important.

Thanks.

mdulzo · #2 15th December 2006, 06:25 AM

Ok I'm back. After doing a ton of experimenting I actually got this card to work under linux. It's really not that difficult if someone has this card and is looking for a way to make it work. These are the steps I took.

1- su - yourself

Code:

su -

2- Update your /etc/modprobe.conf file with the line "options saa7134 card=10 tuner=39"

Code:

vim /etc/modprobe.conf

3- remove the saa7134 module from the kernel

Code:

rmmod saa7134

4- restarts the saa7134 module and loads it into the kernel

Code:

modprobe saa7134

After that I started TVTime and after setting the input setting to NTSC and TV input, i was good to go.

Although I can hear sound with the card, it requires an external jumper from the tuner card to the Line-in jack on my pc. I can hear the sound, but its quiet. Is there any way I can boost the volume from my audio card input?

Hopefully someone finds this useful. Please post if you've had successes/failures with this card.