[mythtv-users] ATSC-110 - Cannot load saa1734-dvb

Praveen Shenoy mythuser at comcast.net
Wed Jan 10 21:42:31 UTC 2007


When you say "using it as a digital tuner" I am assuming you are  
using OTA connector on the card, i.e. the second connector from the  
top. I am connecting my basic cable from comcast to the first  
connector and using the QAM to capture the unencrypted HD channels.

Praveen

On Jan 10, 2007, at 11:27 AM, Jake Thompson wrote:

> I am using it as a digital tuner only, so I do not need a loopback  
> cble.  If you plan on using it for the NTSC tuner(not really the  
> best for this) then you would need to load saa7134-alsa to get the  
> sound with the video stream, still should not need the loopback  
> cable for this.
>
> I have a PVR-150 with a working remote, so I have not tried to get  
> the remote on the ATSC-110 to work, if anyone has done this please  
> let us know.
>
> -Jake
>
> On 1/10/07, Praveen Shenoy <mythuser at comcast.net> wrote:
> Thanks guys
> I will try this tonight. Since you have an atsc-110, do you have  
> the remote working with myth? Also, the wiki also mentioned about  
> loading saa7134-alsa. Is that something you are doing too? Are you  
> using the loopback to feed the audio from the 110 to the line in on  
> your sound card or is that not required if I did the v4lctl  
> commands mentioned on the wiki?
>
> Praveen
>
> On Jan 9, 2007, at 7:10 PM, Jake Thompson wrote:
>
>> I also have an ATSC-110 on FC6, works perfectly.
>>
>>
>> Just to start testing you can do:
>> modprobe saa7134-dvb
>>
>> This should load without a problem, make sure you have downloaded  
>> the firmware and put it in the correct place.
>>
>> You can take a look at dmesg to see if it loaded.
>>
>> Next, to make it load on every startup you can add
>>
>> alias char-major-212 saa7134-dvb
>>
>> to the modprobe.conf file and in /etc/sysconfig/modules
>> create a file called dvb.modules with:
>> #!/bin/sh
>>
>> for i in char-major-212; do
>>         modprobe $i > /dev/null
>> done
>>
>>
>> chmod +x the file, reboot and you should be all set.
>>
>> -Jake
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On 1/9/07, Myth User <mythuser at comcast.net > wrote:
>> Hello all
>> I am trying to setup atsc-110 to use QAM to record HD programs. I
>> have followed a bunch of documentation on getting this to work. I am
>> able to modprobe the saa1734-dvd module at the command line. As I am
>> not very familiar with the modprobe.conf entries (I tried and I am
>> having a kernel panic), it would be of great help if people using the
>> atsc-110 could post their modprobe entires. I have tried a few things
>> but, the dvb module does not load with the changes I have made. I
>> obviously don't understand the format and how the modprobe.conf
>> works:-(. My last change resulted in a kernel panic.
>>
>> The doc on the wiki
>>
>> http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/Kworld_ATSC_110
>>
>> says,
>>
>> Edit your /etc/modules file and insert an 'saa7134-dvb' right after
>> the saa7134 entry that should already exist in the file. This will
>> cause the module to load during boot.
>>
>> But, I don't see any entries for a saa7134 in the modprobe.conf and
>> dmesg seems to be loading it fine and I have been successful in
>> playing back HD using mplayer dvb:// after following the setup
>> process. But I don't know what the change to the modprobe.conf should
>> be to load the saa7134-dvd and not the saa7134. Should I be loading
>> both or should I load only the saa7134-dvb? I have spent a couple
>> weeks trying to get this to work. Can somebody who is using the
>> atsc-110 post their modprobe,conf?
>>
>> I am running Fedora Core 6 and the latest kernel installed using yum
>>
>> Thanks
>> Praveen
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