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| Newer page: | version 7 | Last edited on Saturday, August 7, 2004 11:01:49 am | by CraigBox | Revert |
| Older page: | version 3 | Last edited on Sunday, July 25, 2004 10:01:36 am | by JohnMcPherson | Revert |
@@ -22,17 +22,25 @@
See the IvTv page for kernel support notes, and IvTvNotes for module/ [PAL] support
and other hints.
!! Philips SAA713x
-A newer chip is made by Philips. The Lifeview Fly Video 2000 and 3000 boards sold at [DSE] in New Zealand are based on the saa7130 chip (which uses the same driver as the saa7134 chip). Support is not
in the default 2.4 kernel (but
it is in the version
2.6 series and some of the
2.5.x
series), so
you will need to download drivers and a few small kernel patches from http://bytesex.org/saa7134/. You will need to be using kernel 2.4.20 or 2.5.x
or later - the kernel patches use V4L (video for linux) version 2, while the 2.4 series kernels use version 1). You still need to configure the kernel as above (apart from the BT878/848 specific stuff
). Note that
this card also has a RadioTuner in it - see that page for setup hints
.
+A newer chip is made by Philips. The Lifeview Fly Video 2000 and 3000 boards sold at [DSE] in New Zealand are based on the saa7130 chip (which uses the same driver as the saa7134 chip).
+
+Note that this card also has a RadioTuner
in it - see that page for setup hints.
+
+Support
is
in the 2.6 kernel, or if you use a
2.4
series kernel
you will need to download drivers and a few small kernel patches from http://bytesex.org/saa7134/. You will need to be using kernel 2.4.20 or later to apply these patches
- the kernel patches use V4L (video for linux) version 2, while the 2.4 series kernels use version 1).
+
+
You still need to configure I2C support in
the kernel as above,
+as well as making a module for saa7134
("Device Drivers -> Multimedia devices -> Video For Linux -> Philips SAA7134 support"
).
+If you can "modprobe saa7134" then your kernel already has
this
+module
.
Here a some gotchas I noticed (for the New Zealand version of this board, at least):
-# It didn't compile cleanly with gcc-2.95 (used by [Debian] version 3, for example), due to some problems with initialisation of a static array. I have a trivial patch for version 0.2.7 of the drivers, if anyone is interested (and they don't know enough about [C] to edit it themselves) -- JohnMcPherson.
# I needed to add "oss=1" as a option for the saa7134 module to get any sound. I guess it was defaulting to alsa, but this option wasn't mentioned anywhere - I found it accidentally when doing modinfo(8).
# Audio is handled by a small loop-back cable, out of the tuner card going back into the "line in" on the sound card. (Don't forget to adjust the volume for "line in" in your favourite sound mixer/volume control.)
-# The default tuner type for the card was wrong. In New Zealand we use PAL BG (or compatible), and it was defaulting to some other tuner which meant I could pick up UHF but not VHF channels.
+# The default tuner type for the card was wrong. In New Zealand we use PAL BG (or compatible), and it was defaulting to some other tuner type
which meant I could pick up UHF but not VHF channels.
-Here is the relevant snippet from my /etc/modules.conf:
+Here is the relevant snippet from my /etc/modules.conf (for 2.4 kernels, or /etc/modprobe.d/tv for 2.6 kernels)
:
# for /video0 and vbi0 devices...
alias char-major-81-0 saa7134
# card=3 => flyvideo2000
# tuner=5 for PAL_BG
@@ -43,8 +51,12 @@
!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 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.
+!Mandrake 10.0
+The DSE PCI TV/FM tuner card works on Mandrake 10.0 Official (using 2.6 kernel). This card has Flyvideo3000 and chipset saa7134. In file /etc/modprobe.preload, add this line
+ saa7134
+and from Mandrake install discs, install xawtv (and the dependencies it asks for).
!Infrared Remote
The saa7134 module in kernel 2.6 includes support for the infra-red remote.
@@ -78,8 +90,12 @@
See the XawTv page.
!Tvtime
Probably the Linux tv-viewing app with the most user-friendly [GUI] frontend.
+
+!MythTV
+
+See the MythTv page.
!Mplayer
You need to specify the channel on the command line. For example, try:
mplayer tv://10 -tv driver=v4l2
