[mythtv-users] AverMedia A180 loading saa7134, need saa7134-dvb...

[Mark J. Small]

On Thursday 12 October 2006 09:15, Steven Adeff wrote:
> On 10/12/06, Chad <masterclc at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 10/12/06, Phil Foxton <phil at thefoxtons.org.uk> wrote:
> > > > modprobe saa7134-dvb -v
> > > > insmod
> > > > /lib/modules/2.6.17-gentoo-r5/kernel/drivers/media/dvb/frontends/tda1
> > > >004x.ko insmod
> > > > /lib/modules/2.6.17-gentoo-r5/kernel/drivers/media/video/ir-kbd-i2c.k
> > > >o insmod
> > > > /lib/modules/2.6.17-gentoo-r5/kernel/drivers/media/video/saa7134/saa7
> > > >134.ko insmod
> > > > /lib/modules/2.6.17-gentoo-r5/kernel/drivers/media/video/saa7134/saa7
> > > >134-dvb.ko
> > > >
> > > >From my experience with saa7134 based cards(compro, aver et al) I have
> > >
> > > found that you need to modprobe saa7134 first then saa7134-dvb and
> > > saa7134-alsa for it work.
> > >
> > > Have you tried defining a tuner?
> > >
> > > _______________________________________________
> >
> > Thank you for the fast response!
> >
> > I just tried doing all of the above (and using all ATSC tuners listed
> > in CARDLIST.tuner) but nothing changed.  I'm not sure that I would be
> > defining a tuner as the card is correctly detected, according to
> > dmesg:
> > saa7133[0]: subsystem: 1461:1044, board: AVerMedia AVerTVHD MCE A180
> > [card=75,autodetected]
> >
> > And later on, the correct frontend is loaded by dvb:
> > DVB: registering new adapter (saa7133[0]).
> > DVB: registering frontend 1 (Nextwave NXT200X VSB/QAM frontend)...
> >
> > It would appear everything is loading correctly.  From my vast
> > searches on the web, the only thing that looks like it makes a
> > difference is that I'm forced to load saa7134 to satisfy a dependency
> > for saa7134-dvb.  I've blacklisted, removed and spit on the saa7134,
> > but it makes no difference, it loads everytime.
> >
> > This is an HDTV tuner card for ATSC in the USA if that helps at all.
> >
> > Any other ideas?
> >
> > Thanks again!
>
> I have two A180's and saa7134 is loaded and the cards work fine, so I
> don't see what the issue is?


 On my system (Debian etch), the saa7134 gets automatically loaded, but I have 
to manually load sa7134-dvb.  I can do this my adding a line with just 
saa7134-dvb to /etc/modules, or by putting a suitable modprobe 
in /etc/init.d/rc.local which seems to have been added to Debian recently.

Mark