> Of course, I supposed that this would work only for those who can > switch on the sound of the tv card by launching (and then > exiting) 'radio' (some people reported this, I tried it and it > worked for me). Apparently there are some slight differences on > the cards we have - or it is the other hardware of pc that makes > the difference, I do not know... For some the card works fully, > for some turning on the radio helps, for others there is no sound > at all. the "radio" trick basically gives you mono sound directly from the tuner chip -- which is a workaround for the non-working sound decoding of the saa7134. The latest saa7134 snapshot (see http://bytesex.org/snapshot/) does print a dump of the (hopefully) relevant registers in case the carrier detect didn't work ... (audio_debug=1 insmod option makes the driver more verbose about the detection thing). Gerd -- You can't please everybody. And usually if you _try_ to please everybody, the end result is one big mess. -- Linus Torvalds, 2002-04-20
