saa7134 blank screen

[eduedix]

how can i get my tv card working?

lspci output:

05:07.0 Multimedia controller: Philips Semiconductors SAA7134/SAA7135HL Video Broadcast Decoder (rev 01)


Taku ~ # emerge media-tv/linuxtv-dvb-firmware -pv

These are the packages that would be merged, in order:

Calculating dependencies... done!
[ebuild R ] media-tv/linuxtv-dvb-firmware-2007.04.13 DVB_CARDS="tda10045 tda10046lifeview -bcm3510 -dibusb-usb1 -dibusb-usb2 -nxt2002 -nxt200x -or51132 -or51211 -sp8870 -sp887x -tda10046 -ttpci -ttusb-dec -usb-a800 -usb-bluebird -usb-dib0700 -usb-dtt200u -usb-umt -usb-vp702x -usb-vp7045 -usb-wt220u"



dmesg output:

saa7134[0]: found at 0000:05:07.0, rev: 1, irq: 17, latency: 32, mmio: 0xd2000000
saa7134[0]: subsystem: 4e42:0138, board: LifeView FlyVIDEO3000 [card=2,autodetected]
saa7134[0]: board init: gpio is 39100
saa7134[0]: there are different flyvideo cards with different tuners
saa7134[0]: out there, you might have to use the tuner=<nr> insmod
saa7134[0]: option to override the default value.
input: saa7134 IR (LifeView FlyVIDEO30 as /class/input/input2
saa7134[0]: i2c eeprom 00: 42 4e 38 01 10 28 ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
saa7134[0]: i2c eeprom 10: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
saa7134[0]: i2c eeprom 20: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
saa7134[0]: i2c eeprom 30: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
saa7134[0]: i2c eeprom 40: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
saa7134[0]: i2c eeprom 50: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
saa7134[0]: i2c eeprom 60: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
saa7134[0]: i2c eeprom 70: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
tuner 0-0061: chip found @ 0xc2 (saa7134[0])
tuner 0-0061: type set to 5 (Philips PAL_BG (FI1216 and compatibles))
tuner 0-0061: type set to 5 (Philips PAL_BG (FI1216 and compatibles))
tuner 0-0063: chip found @ 0xc6 (saa7134[0])
saa7134[0]: registered device video0 [v4l2]
saa7134[0]: registered device vbi0
saa7134[0]: registered device radio0

lsmod output:

Module Size Used by
fglrx 752916 15
snd_pcm_oss 39904 0
snd_mixer_oss 15040 1 snd_pcm_oss
dm_mod 50608 5
tuner 58536 0
evdev 9024 0
usbhid 15108 0
saa7134 125800 0
video_buf 21636 1 saa7134
compat_ioctl32 8064 1 saa7134
ir_kbd_i2c 8208 1 saa7134
i2c_core 19032 3 tuner,saa7134,ir_kbd_i2c
ir_common 31748 2 saa7134,ir_kbd_i2c
videodev 25536 1 saa7134
v4l2_common 17024 4 tuner,saa7134,compat_ioctl32,videodev
v4l1_compat 11460 2 saa7134,videodev
forcedeth 43272 0
snd_intel8x0 31720 1
snd_ac97_codec 106776 1 snd_intel8x0
ac97_bus 2752 1 snd_ac97_codec
snd_pcm 73932 3 snd_pcm_oss,snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec
snd_timer 20552 1 snd_pcm
snd 51112 8 snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm,snd_timer
soundcore 7392 1 snd
snd_page_alloc 8016 2 snd_intel8x0,snd_pcm
ohci_hcd 19716 0
ehci_hcd 28556 0
usbcore 120592 4 usbhid,ohci_hcd,ehci_hcd


when i run " mplayer -tv driver=v4l2 tv:// " , i only get blank screen, nothing else.

so could you please help me getting this tv card working ?

thanks, eduedix

[mbjr]

Hi there,

I used to have the same kind of card, and faced similar issues with it.
My solution was that I've found my card's name in the saa module docs (in kernel docs) and passed the correct parameters to the module when loaded. As far as I can remember, you'll have to set your card type and audio chip type.

HTH,
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mb

[dol-sen]

I have used motv in the past, but had to pass it the video device to use. Then I started having troubles with it when nvidia dropped the overlay mode. The past year I have been using tvtime, it worked for me without any re-configuration. Only problem now is sound no longer works. I believe it is a hardware failure in the tv card. First the direct sound failed then software using sap, also I got some random pops and things that sound like a cold solder jiont cause or chip failure. I have been too busy to take my computer apart and look for the problem.
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