Hello Wieslaw and Hermann. Thanks to you guys, some progress has been made :) But still I can't watch TV, I will try to explain. Op do 09-10-2003, om 02:33 schreef hermann pitton: > Hi, > > we know two cards from Aldi with the saa7134 chip. The Tevion 9717 (that > is the md9717 card=6 tuner=5) and the md7134 combo, which includes a > onboard modem or isdn device. The last one is usually sold with complete > computer systems, but small amounts are on the market and also used ones > out of those systems. This card has been delivered with two different > tuner types and is also working. > > So I would like to assume you have bought a md9717, but what I don't > like is, that you say Avermedia is printed on it, because that I can not > see on mine. > > You can go to > http://home.t-online.de/home/gunther.mayer/bttv/bttv-gallery.html and > search in your browser for md9717. With the picture there you can > verify, if you have that card. No, it looks sort of similar but it is a positively a very different card. I have posted a picture here: <http://member.prolinea.org/~olav/dsc03582.jpg> (139 K). Sorry for the bad image quality, but I had to photograph through a cheap magnifying glass - my camera lacks sharpness in the range from 0 to 50 cm. I have also scaled down the picture a bit. You can still see clearly how the card has AverMedia printed on it (bottom of the picture, upside down). The tuner is Philips FM1216ME. I have printed "7134" on the JPG picture, where I found the main chip. The thing was sold as Medion, like you can see on <http://member.prolinea.org/~olav/dsc03582.jpg> (98 k). Box, manual, remote are all labeled Medion. >From the side of the box: MD 2819 10/03 MSN 5000 9514 So I guess this will be known as the Medion MD 2819 TV Card? > Then you can use the config from Wieslaw and set for X 6 and for Y 5 > (twice :) and do a "depmod -a" thereafter. I did this in /etc/modules.conf: alias char-major-81 videodev alias char-major-81-0 saa7134 options saa7134 card=6 tuner=38 options tuner=38 ... because I found "38" for the tuner on <http://freevo.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/moin.cgi/BttvPage>. I cannot find my actual card there, so I sticked to the value of "6" (for Avermedia TVPhone). > "modprobe saa7134" will load the driver. Yes, I did that (a couple of times maybe). I need not repeat this after my PC had been off, do I? > On newer kernels I have seen it is just enough to do > "modprobe saa7134 card=6" ... in that case also make sure not a webcam > got the /dev/video0, or you must tell xawtv and tvtime that it is on > /dev/video1 or whereever. On RH also control, that /dev/video and > /dev/dsp are symbolic links to /dev/video0 and /dev/dsp0. After loading > the driver you should do a "dmesg" to see what has happened or not. In > case something is going wrong "dmesg > dmesg.txt" gives you a file you > can attach to an email ... Well, what is wrong or not I cannot say at this moment. After editing /etc/modules.conf as mentioned above and doing depmod and modprobe like you mentioned (no idea what those commands actually do, but hey), and after I rebooted my computer (for another reason) I can actually see static in xawtv. It is really TV static, because I can see pictures through the static in some channels, but that's all really. I tried scantv, entered PAL and West-European frequency table but it cannot find any station. Maybe one of you will know how to proceed next?
