AVerMedia TV card not working under Suse10.3

[Emon]

Hi all

I have just installed a "AVer TV Super 007" card from AverMedia but when I try to Scan for channels using KDETV it can't find any channel. In YaST it shows up under "Hardware" -> "TV Card" as "SAA7133/SAA7135 Video Broadcast Decoder" but when I try to scan channels from there it says

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device has no tuner, exiting
Number of TV Stations Found: 0
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This same card is working fine under M$-XP....

So what am I doing wrong??

[peteh]

You may be missing the firmware which should be in /usr/lib/firmware.
See if you can find it here (LinuxTV).

[peteh]

I've just had a further thought. Kdetv is analogue only. Is your card for DVB?

[Emon]

You may be missing the firmware which should be in /usr/lib/firmware.
See if you can find it here (LinuxTV).

Hi Peteh

Thanks for the reply, but I am not familiar with installing firmware can you please provide any link or instructions on how to do that

I've just had a further thought. Kdetv is analogue only. Is your card for DVB?

No, we only get analogue TV here in Bangladesh. Before this I had a Pinnacle "PCTV Stereo" card & it was working fine

Awaiting for further instructions

Emon

[peteh]

There's plenty of help on the linuxTV site. I'm not familiar with your card and with mine I found I had to just keep trying the various suggestions.
But it is very helpful so search the rest of the linuxTV site - they mention your card, I think.

[waterhead]

Here is a Link to specific instructions for the AVerMedia AVerTV GO 007:
AVerMedia AVerTV GO 007 - V4LWiki

If this is not the exact card that you have, you may need to determine the correct card=<number> and tuner=<number> for your card.

[Emon]

Hi again everyone

A member at my local LUG suggested doing this

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"In suse you have to enter the needed values with Yast:
hardware->TV card -> Edit -> Expert settings
set Module parameters
card 57
gbuffers 2
tuner 54"
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Now I am getting video, but no audio

Any suggestions??

Emon

[waterhead]

You may need to load the audio module.

# modprobe saa7134-oss

or

# modprobe saa7134-alsa

This info is based on another version of your card that I found here

[Emon]

I think alsa module is loaded fine as you will see from the last portion of the "dmesg" segment that I posted

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saa7130/34: v4l2 driver version 0.2.14 loaded
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:07.0[A] -> GSI 19 (level, low) -> IRQ 19
saa7133[0]: found at 0000:00:07.0, rev: 209, irq: 19, latency: 32, mmio: 0xdfffb800
saa7133[0]: subsystem: 1461:f11d, board: Avermedia AVerTV GO 007 FM [card=57,insmod option]
saa7133[0]: board init: gpio is 40000
input: saa7134 IR (Avermedia AVerTV GO as /class/input/input6
hsfengine: module license 'see LICENSE file distributed with driver' taints kernel.
saa7133[0]: i2c eeprom 00: 61 14 1d f1 54 20 1c 00 43 43 a9 1c 55 d2 b2 92
saa7133[0]: i2c eeprom 10: ff ff ff ff ff 20 ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
saa7133[0]: i2c eeprom 20: 01 40 01 32 32 01 01 43 88 ff 00 56 ff ff ff ff
saa7133[0]: i2c eeprom 30: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
saa7133[0]: i2c eeprom 40: ff 22 00 c0 96 ff 03 30 15 00 ff ff ff ff ff ff
saa7133[0]: i2c eeprom 50: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
saa7133[0]: i2c eeprom 60: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
saa7133[0]: i2c eeprom 70: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
tuner 1-004b: chip found @ 0x96 (saa7133[0])
tuner 1-004b: setting tuner address to 60
tuner 1-004b: type set to tda8290+75a
tuner 1-004b: setting tuner address to 60
tuner 1-004b: type set to tda8290+75a
saa7133[0]: registered device video0 [v4l2]
saa7133[0]: registered device vbi0
saa7133[0]: registered device radio0
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:06.0[A] -> GSI 17 (level, low) -> IRQ 20
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:08.0[A] -> GSI 18 (level, low) -> IRQ 21
cnxthsf_NVM_Open: cannot create instance 0-PCI-14f1:2f00-14f1:2002: err=-2 will retry later...
call_dcp_daemon: /usr/sbin/hsfdcpd returned -2
ttySHSF0 at I/O 0xcc00 (irq = 21) is a Conexant HSF softmodem (PCI-14f1:2f00-14f1:2002)
saa7134 ALSA driver for DMA sound loaded
saa7133[0]/alsa: saa7133[0] at 0xdfffb800 irq 19 registered as card -1
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Emon

[waterhead]

You need to know the correct ID of the card, according to your post it appears to be this.

 saa7133[0]: subsystem: 1461:f11d, board: Avermedia AVerTV GO 007 FM [card=57,insmod option]

In the Video4Linux Documentation/cardlist.saa7134, I see this listed.

117 -> Avermedia Super 007                      [1461:f01d]

To find the correct ID of the card, first remove the entry that you made for card and tuner type. Reboot to start fresh, and then enter this in a terminal.

# lspci -nn

Look for your TV card and post the output here.

The documentation that I found the info in should be in the kernel source files. Mine are here:
/usr/src/linux-2.6.18.8-0.3/Documentation/video4linux

I did not find your card listed here. I do have a newer version of Video4Linux/DVB that I had downloaded from their site. That is where it lists your card as #117.

I recommend that you download and install the latest drivers following the instructions here:
LinuxTV.org - CVS and Mercurial access

This may help the operating system recognize the card.