[mythtv-users] Pinnacle PCTV/saa7134 on Ubuntu running MythTV Problem

[Anders Blomgren]

For starters, try "modprobe saa7134". If that helps (see "dmesg" to
confirm), add "saa7134" to the file /etc/modules

//Anders


On 1/24/06, Martin Madsen <martin at sprithuset.dk> wrote:
>
> Hey all you MythTV Users.
>
> I hope this is the right place to ask my question because I have searched
> and searched the web without finding a solution.
>
> I will tell you the whole story in short terms:
>
> I got a 700MHz PIII with 128MB Memory on a unknown IBM motherboard. On
> this box I installed Ubuntu Linux because I wanted to try MythTV out. For
> this I used a Pinnacle PCTV TV Tuner with a SAA7134 chip on it. After some
> trouble getting to know the MythTV setup I managed to get it up and running.
> Please note that Ubuntu recognizes my TV Tuner fine, and giving me the
> /dev/video0 device. (lspci shows Phillips Something tuner.)
>
> Then I, because I had such success with MythTV decided that a hardware
> upgrade was needed. So I took my XP1800 with 1048MB DDR and Soyo Dragon Plus
> motherboard (Via KT266 chipset) and A big harddrive and installed Ubuntu
> from the exact same CDROM media as on the 700MHz. After the install I
> quickly installed and configured MythTV until I reached the "mythtv-setup"
> part. Here the prograss stopped because no TV Tuner was found. Strangely
> lspci showed no sign of my TV Tuner (Which had work an hour ago in another
> machine) neither did dmesg.
>
> At first I thought it was a bad connection so I changed the PCI where the
> card was sitting but only to find no card in lspci. Then I started fooling
> around with newer and much older biosses for the motherboard but that didn't
> make any changes. I Even tried reinstalling Ubuntu, but with no luck.
>
> Therefore I decided to change hardware to my XP2500+ with 1048MB mem on a
> Soltek FRN motherboard. (Running nforce2 chipset.) Installed Ubuntu but only
> to find that the card still wasn't in lspci and dmesg.
>
> Now I really don't know what to do so I hope you can help me. I have
> googled on the problem only to find nothing about this.
>
> Thank you very much in advance and sorry for my bad English
>
> Best Regards
> Martin / A hopefully soon glad MythTV User ☺
>
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