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@@ -40,11 +40,12 @@
options saa7134 card=3 tuner=5 oss=1
!!Notes for [LinuxKernel2.6]
!Overlay
-As mentioned above, the saal7134 driver is part of 2.6. However, xawtv didn't work, and didn't even try to access the /dev/video device! However, reading the documentation suggested adding
- Load
"v4l
"
-in your /etc/X11/XF86Config file (for
[XFree86
] version 4)
. This allows the "
Xvideo" extension to do video overlays and scaling (and
means that xawtv won't send those annoying refresh commands that make your desktop flicker every time the window is resized, or another window obscures or reveals part of the xawtv window)
.
+As mentioned above, the saal7134 driver is part of 2.6. However, xawtv didn't work, and didn't even try to access the /dev/video device! However, reading the documentation suggested using the
"Xvideo
" extension. See the
[Xv
] page
.
+Using
Xvideo also
means that xawtv won't send those annoying refresh commands that make your desktop flicker every time the window is resized, or another window obscures or reveals part of the xawtv window.
+
+
!Infrared Remote
The saa7134 module in kernel 2.6 includes support for the infra-red remote.
The driver acts as another keyboard - if it is working, you should look
@@ -59,9 +60,11 @@
B: KEY=c0304 100000 0 0 0 0 1 10000 2 1e0001 7bb80 0 0
Use the "xev" program to see if X can see remote button presses. If you use the "Multimedia Keys" settings in [GNOME] (and presumably something similar in [KDE]), you can assign arbitrary keys (including those buttons on the remote) to various desktop functions such as volume/mute control. (Use of xev(1) shows that not all the buttons on the remote are supported - while most generate events, the buttons labelled "CATV", "Video", "Audio", "Full Screen", and channel up and down don't appear to be visible for some reason).
-This however isn't sufficient to program "change channel" functions and so forth. For this, perhaps
you could investigate using the
"lirc" userland daemons with the generic "event interface" (EVDEV support needed in the kernel) for this IR support, have a look at http://linux
.bytesex.org/v4l2/faq.html#ir,
and update this page :)
+This however isn't sufficient to program "change channel" functions and so forth. For this, you need to use
"lirc" userland daemons with the generic "event interface" (CONFIG_INPUT_
EVDEV support needed in the kernel) for this IR support. Merely having the "evdev" module loaded
and the "liblircclient0" package installed on Debian meant that the numbers on the remote are seen just like the numbers on
+the keypad.
+
If you don't want the driver to print debugging messages to syslog every time you press a button, edit the file
/usr/src/linux/drivers/media/video/saa7134/saa7134-input.c
and comment out or remove the two lines:
@@ -71,9 +74,9 @@
!!!Applications
!Xawtv
-See the xawtv(1) manpage
.
+See the XawTv page
.
!Tvtime
Probably the Linux tv-viewing app with the most user-friendly [GUI] frontend.
