[mythtv-users] Audio from SAA7134

[Michael Lynch]

On 11/24/06, Andrew Osborn <aosborn at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello All,
>
> Has anyone had problems getting an SAA7134 TV Tuner card working? Mine
> is not being detected as an audio device, and I'm not sure what steps
> I have to go through to get it in the audio device list. The card is a
> Compro VideoMate TV Gold Plus which uses the SAA7134 driver (I use: #
> modprobe saa7134 card=41 tuner=17).
>
>

I have this exact card (I actually put up the original mythtv wiki
page for it) and here is my configuration
(http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/User:Lynchmv):

#> lspci -v
02:09.0 Multimedia controller: Philips Semiconductors SAA7133 Video
Broadcast Decoder (rev 10)
        Subsystem: Compro Technology, Inc. Compro VideoMate TV Gold+
        Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 5
        Memory at feafe800 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=2K]
        Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 2

#> arecord -l
**** List of CAPTURE Hardware Devices ****
card 0: ICH5 [Intel ICH5], device 0: Intel ICH [Intel ICH5]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: ICH5 [Intel ICH5], device 1: Intel ICH - MIC ADC [Intel ICH5 - MIC ADC]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: ICH5 [Intel ICH5], device 2: Intel ICH - MIC2 ADC [Intel ICH5
- MIC2 ADC]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: ICH5 [Intel ICH5], device 3: Intel ICH - ADC2 [Intel ICH5 - ADC2]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 1: SAA7134 [SAA7134], device 0: SAA7134 PCM [SAA7134 PCM]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0

RELEVANT INFO FROM /etc/modprobe.conf
### Begin Capture Cards
alias char-major-81 videodev

# Compro VideoMate Gold+ as video0
alias char-major-81-0 saa7134
options saa7134 card=41 tuner=17

### Get onboard sound to dsp0
alias snd-card-0 snd-intel8x0
options snd-card-0 index=0
options snd-intel8x0 index=0
remove snd-intel8x0 { /usr/sbin/alsactl store 0 >/dev/null 2>&1 || : ;
}; /sbin/modprobe -r .ignore-remove snd-intel8x0

### Get sound from Compro to dsp1
alias snd-card-1 saa7134-alsa
options snd-card-1 index=1
options saa7134-alsa index=1
remove saa7134-alsa { /usr/sbin/alsactl store 1 >/dev/null 2>&1 || : ;
}; /sbin/modprobe -r .ignore-remove saa7134-alsa

RELEVANT INFO FROM /etc/rc.d/rc.local
## V4L Cards
/usr/local/bin/v4lctl -c /dev/video0 volume mute off

RELEVANT MythTV info (from mysql tables)
videodevice: /dev/v4l/video0
audiodevice: /dev/dsp1
vbidevice: /dev/v4l/vbi0
cardtype: V4L
defaultinput: Composite1 (this will be different if you're using the
coax, I'm capturing from an STB using RCA and line in)
audioratelimit: 32000