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From: Nick Rout <nick@×××××××.nz>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Cannot get TV Card to work
Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2005 04:32:34
Message-Id: 20050719162448.43A3.NICK@rout.co.nz
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Cannot get TV Card to work by Jamie Dobbs
1 Jamie. we seem to be following each other around the mailing lists. CLUG, mythtv, now here.
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3 You seem to have all the modules loaded, what is not working?
4
5 is there a /dev/video/video0?
6 does xawtv -c /dev/video/video0 give any output?
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10 On Tue, 19 Jul 2005 14:20:48 +1200 (NZST)
11 Jamie Dobbs wrote:
12
13 > I've been working on this for several days but do not seem to make any
14 > progress.
15 > I have a Pinnacle PCTV Stereo card which is based on the Philips saa7134
16 > chip. I have recomipled my kernel (2.6.12-gentoo-r6) to include the
17 > saa7134 module and i2c support as a module.
18 >
19 > lsmod output :
20 >
21 > Module Size Used by
22 > tda9887 13144 0
23 > saa7134 102996 0
24 > tuner 26920 0
25 > video_buf 17924 1 saa7134
26 > v4l2_common 5184 1 saa7134
27 > v4l1_compat 14084 1 saa7134
28 > ir_common 6660 1 saa7134
29 > videodev 7808 1 saa7134
30 >
31 > Relevant entries added to my /etc/modules.conf after modules-update is run:
32 > (I am in New Zealand and know that card number and tuner number are
33 > correct as I have had this card working in Mandrake 10.1 a week or so ago)
34 >
35 > ### modules-update: start processing /etc/modules.d/saa7134
36 > options saa7134 card=26 tuner=5 oss=1
37 >
38 > ### modules-update: end processing /etc/modules.d/saa7134
39 >
40 > ### modules-update: start processing /etc/modules.d/tda9887
41 > options tda9887 qss=0
42 >
43 > ### modules-update: end processing /etc/modules.d/tda9887
44 >
45 > My Kernel .config file can be found at
46 > http://drgnfire.orcon.net.nz/kernel_config
47 >
48 > I'd appreciate any feedback on what I might be doing wrong that is causing
49 > the TV Card not to work.
50 >
51 > Once I have the card working my aim is to build a MythTV box using this
52 > card, so any pointers on this would also be appreciated (especially from
53 > anyone in New Zealand who has experience in this area).
54 >
55 > Thanks
56 >
57 > Jamie
58 >
59 >
60 > --
61 > gentoo-user@g.o mailing list
62
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64 Nick Rout
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Re: [gentoo-user] Cannot get TV Card to work Jamie Dobbs <jamie.dobbs@×××××××××.nz>
Re: [gentoo-user] Cannot get TV Card to work Jamie Dobbs <jamie.dobbs@×××××××××.nz>