List of support TV tuner card on Linux mint and How to

[abuser]

Nothing on lspci, just lsusb. It's expresscard slot. This is it:
Bus 002 Device 005: ID 6000:ea5a
It's not recognized.

lsusb without TV card:
Bus 006 Device 002: ID 0458:003a KYE Systems Corp. (Mouse Systems)
Bus 006 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 007 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 001 Device 003: ID 04f2:b159 Chicony Electronics Co., Ltd
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 005 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 008 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 003 Device 002: ID 03f0:171d Hewlett-Packard Wireless (Bluetooth + WLAN) Interface [Integrated Module]
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub

lsusb with TV card:
Bus 006 Device 002: ID 0458:003a KYE Systems Corp. (Mouse Systems)
Bus 006 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 007 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 001 Device 003: ID 04f2:b159 Chicony Electronics Co., Ltd
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 002 Device 004: ID 6000:ea5a
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 005 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 008 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 003 Device 002: ID 03f0:171d Hewlett-Packard Wireless (Bluetooth + WLAN) Interface [Integrated Module]
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub

dmesg with card in/out:
[10662.596084] usb 2-3: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 3
[10663.050855] usb 2-3: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
[10831.075755] usb 2-3: USB disconnect, address 3
[10865.316277] usb 2-3: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 4
[10865.770883] usb 2-3: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
[11006.940762] usb 2-3: USB disconnect, address 4
[11022.288087] usb 2-3: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 5
[11022.742826] usb 2-3: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice

[Husse]

Have to give this some consideration before I try to answer - dmesg was interesting

[adrian.ccs]

Bus 005 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 007 Device 002: ID 1b96:0001 N-Trig Duosense Transparent Electromagnetic Digitizer
Bus 007 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 002 Device 003: ID 2304:023e Pinnacle Systems, Inc. [hex]
Bus 002 Device 002: ID 064e:a104 Suyin Corp.
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 006 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 0bda:0158 Realtek Semiconductor Corp. Mass Stroage Device
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub

it nows it is there so now what should I do??? jejeje thanks for the help

[Husse]

It becomes complicated when I have several persons asking for help in one topic - I mix you up
Not Only TV LV9H Hybrid ExpressCard + Ubuntu gave 7 hits in Polish on Google
2304:023e Linux gave 5 useless hits, without Linux it was mostly about quasars (astronomy) and
2304:023e Pinnacle gave four hits, one in Italian about our subject, the rest useless
The Italian one is quite new, but for openSUSE, but I think it should be possible to use that guide
I don't read Italian but I can follow the guide anyhow
At one stage the command is sudo zypper - forget about that you should do apt install build-essential should you try that solution
Blog post here
The google translate found here seems OK

[adrian.ccs]

Hi I've already tried that and id doesnt recognize it as it said on the italian guide.
i could not run the
sudo zypper install gcc make glibc-devel kernel-source dvb mercurial
command.

anyways I downloaded mercurial and dvd tuner and dvd apps before I continued. Any other ideas =D?

[Niks]

After installing Mint 8 and every media player that I can find ,not one of them finds my TV card. Pulse finds the audio chip but that's it except for one surprise. While checking Skype web cam settings what do I find in the cam options, my TV Card with it's correct model name ( not included in the list yet ).

Anyone want to explain this one ?????

[Niks]

I have done exactly whats described in the first post and entered the correct card no. in bttv. Although my capture card is found it doesn't seem to connect to anything except cheese and of course I can't do anything with tunning.!
Gnome radio also gives an error "dev not found".
Below I have listed what I hope is enough detail.

-Version-
Kernel : Linux 2.6.31-14-generic (i686)
Compiled : #48-Ubuntu SMP Fri Oct 16 14:04:26 UTC 2009
C Library : GNU C Library version 2.10.1 (stable)
Default C Compiler : GNU C Compiler version 4.4.1 (Ubuntu 4.4.1-4ubuntu9)
Distribution : Linux Mint 8 Helena - Main Edition
Desktop Environment : GNOME 2.28.1

-Loaded Modules-b
cx22702 : Conexant CX22702 DVB-T Demodulator driver
cx88_dvb : driver for cx2388x based DVB cards
cx88_vp3054_i2c : driver for cx2388x VP3054 design
videobuf_dvb
dvb_core : DVB Core Driver
wm8775 : wm8775 driver
tuner_simple : Simple 4-control-bytes style tuner driver
tuner_types : Simple tuner device type database

cx88_alsa : ALSA driver module for cx2388x based TV cards
ac97_bus
tuner : device driver for various TV and TV+FM radio tuners

cx8802 : mpeg driver for cx2388x based TV cards
cx8800 : v4l2 driver module for cx2388x based TV cards
bridge
cx88xx : v4l2 driver module for cx2388x based TV cards

bttv : bttv - v4l/v4l2 driver module for bt848/878 based cards
ir_common

I hope someone can point me in the right direction

[abuser]

Informative post. Great list of the TV tuner Cards on Linux mint. I am using the LifeView (Not only TV) LV9H ExpressCard on my laptop.

Does it work on linux? If does - please write how you make it running

[TEEE]

Hi
I said good-bye to Windows a month ago and still struggling to configure my
Leadtek TV2000XP Global (cx88xx chip)

can you please let me know what to put in cx88xx.config file..................
regards

[Niks]

It's a shame Husse is no long with us as he would have pointed you in the right direction.

I'll not sure if this helps but I have card which is supported by the Kernel but refused to work even though it was fine in Win Vista..having said it was a fight to get it to work there too!

What I did discover which may help some people here is that I had to power down / remove card / reboot mint / shut down / power down / reroot and there was the my TV card!

Don't ask why as I don't know but it worked !

As for finding BTTV settings just google for BTTV and your card type. Thats how I found mine.

I still havn't routed the audio from TV time or zapping TV to my sound card or pulse yet but It is there and I have input....

Tv cards are quite a battle in Linux so be patient you will get there in the end.

Niks

[Inno]

I have just bought an Ocean USB TV STICK CR-380 module and can anyone help with the installation on mint 7? At the moment when I plug it nothing happens.

[jairomacon]

Got your list .Felling quit fine after having your list.I am recently going thru Linux MiNT.I was in confusion to setup a TV Tuner Card & just got the Bunch of selective options.Even learned a lot about to install with no errors.Without the list It wouldn't happen to me.

[markosjal]

I have one of these older cards (was never clear on which beast exactly) . Arte these early ATI cards NOT compatible? I thought they were through the GATOS drivers but I can not find a how to anywhere that is complete.

[MarkusR]

I just installed Mint 9 with Hauppauge HVR-1255 card. The drivers are there, but according to dmesg I need to set the option "card=20" in the insmod.

I see there are instructions about creating or modifying files but I'm a bit confused which file it is on Mint 9 that needs to be edited. Do I need to edit /etc/modules file? What exactly do I put in there?

[saedelaere]

In case someone searches an application for Devices with a build-in hardware mpeg2 encoder like the devices supported by the ivtv, pvrusb2, cx18 or cx88-blackbird driver have a look at TV-Viewer. So far only analog TV is supported but this will change in a future Release.

Best regards

[banshee]

Hy everyone,

I read every post, and tried solutions offered, but as more as I try more it seems that I do not know exactly what my problem is.
So I have Asus Tv-FM 7134 card and Linux Mint 9: Isadora. The thing is that when I run Tvtime, Kaffeine or even Me-TV TV card isn't recognized.
And to get things even more stupid, Skype recognizes it and with no problem plays static from it. So on with the relevant info:

lspci -v

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04:06.0 Multimedia controller: Philips Semiconductors SAA7134/SAA7135HL Video Broadcast Decoder (rev 01)
   Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Device 4842
   Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 20
   Memory at fdcff000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=1K]
   Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 1
   Kernel driver in use: saa7134
   Kernel modules: saa7134


lsmod

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Module                  Size  Used by
saa7134_alsa           12370  1
tuner                  23224  1
ir_common              43415  1 saa7134
v4l2_common            18357  2 tuner,saa7134
videobuf_dma_sg        12370  2 saa7134_alsa,saa7134
videobuf_core          19269  2 saa7134,videobuf_dma_sg
tveeprom               13882  1 saa7134
snd_pcm                87850  6 saa7134_alsa,snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec,snd_usb_audio,snd_pcm_oss
snd                    70978  25 saa7134_alsa,snd_hda_codec_realtek,snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec,snd_usb_audio,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,snd_hwdep,snd_seq_oss,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq,snd_timer,snd_seq_device


dmesg

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[    9.850663] phy0: Selected rate control algorithm 'minstrel'
[    9.851050] phy0: hwaddr 00:18:e7:6a:4a:03, RTL8185vD + rtl8225z2
[    9.851632]   alloc irq_desc for 20 on node 0
[    9.851634]   alloc kstat_irqs on node 0
[    9.851642] saa7134 0000:04:06.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 20 (level, low) -> IRQ 20
[    9.851648] saa7134[0]: found at 0000:04:06.0, rev: 1, irq: 20, latency: 32, mmio: 0xfdcff000
[    9.851654] saa7134[0]: subsystem: 1043:4842, board: Sabrent SBT-TVFM (saa7130) [card=42,insmod option]
[    9.851670] saa7134[0]: board init: gpio is 0
[    9.851675] IRQ 20/saa7134[0]: IRQF_DISABLED is not guaranteed on shared IRQs
[    9.876762] hda_codec: ALC889A: BIOS auto-probing.
[    9.878712] input: HDA Digital PCBeep as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:14.2/input/input6
[   10.070022] saa7134[0]: i2c eeprom 00: 43 10 42 48 ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
[   10.070026] saa7134[0]: i2c eeprom 10: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
[   10.070029] saa7134[0]: i2c eeprom 20: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
[   10.070032] saa7134[0]: i2c eeprom 30: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
[   10.070035] saa7134[0]: i2c eeprom 40: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
[   10.070038] saa7134[0]: i2c eeprom 50: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
[   10.070041] saa7134[0]: i2c eeprom 60: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
[   10.070044] saa7134[0]: i2c eeprom 70: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
[   10.070047] saa7134[0]: i2c eeprom 80: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
[   10.070050] saa7134[0]: i2c eeprom 90: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
[   10.070053] saa7134[0]: i2c eeprom a0: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
[   10.070055] saa7134[0]: i2c eeprom b0: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
[   10.070058] saa7134[0]: i2c eeprom c0: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
[   10.070061] saa7134[0]: i2c eeprom d0: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
[   10.070064] saa7134[0]: i2c eeprom e0: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
[   10.070067] saa7134[0]: i2c eeprom f0: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
[   10.070071] i2c i2c-0: Invalid 7-bit address 0x7a
[   10.773707] tuner 0-0043: chip found @ 0x86 (saa7134[0])
[   10.777912] tda9887 0-0043: creating new instance
[   10.777914] tda9887 0-0043: tda988[5/6/7] found
[   10.820132] saa7134[0]: registered device video1 [v4l2]
[   10.820147] saa7134[0]: registered device vbi0
[   10.820161] saa7134[0]: registered device radio0
[   10.823384] saa7134 ALSA driver for DMA sound loaded
[   10.823392] IRQ 20/saa7134[0]: IRQF_DISABLED is not guaranteed on shared IRQs
[   10.823405] saa7134[0]/alsa: saa7134[0] at 0xfdcff000 irq 20 registered as card -2


After it refused to work I tried to put card and tuner numbers in options, but half way, I wasn't sure witch, so I tried different and
after 4th reboot I was bored :S

loaded modules
/etc/modules

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tuner
tvaudio
saa7134-empress
saa7134-alsa
saa7134-dvb
saa7134


and the latest entry in modprobe

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options saa7134 card=16 tuner=43


This is my first day with Linux Mint and first (and only) problem. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Also I will
provide every info needed that I failed to post.

Cheers

[deconectat]

I just installed Linux Mint 10 and I'm trying to get my Avermedia Aver Tv Go 007 FM (analog) to work. I've used this card in older versions of Ubuntu and openSuSE 11.3, but it doesn't seem to work in mint.
I tried:

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vali-desktop vali # modprobe saa7134_alsa
vali-desktop vali # modprobe saa7134 i2c_scan=1

and

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modprobe saa7134_alsa
modprobe saa7134 card=52 tuner=5


I even added these modules to /etc/modules and restarted my system.

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# xawtv -hwscan
This is xawtv-3.95.dfsg.1, running on Linux/i686 (2.6.35-22-generic-pae)
looking for available devices
port 331-362
    type : Xvideo, image scaler
    name : NV17 Video Texture

port 363-394
    type : Xvideo, image scaler
    name : NV05 Video Blitter

/dev/video0: OK                         [ -device /dev/video0 ]
    type : v4l2
    name : UNKNOWN/GENERIC
    flags: overlay capture 

# tvtime-scanner
Reading configuration from /etc/tvtime/tvtime.xml
Scanning using TV standard NTSC.

    No tuner found on input 0.  If you have a tuner, please
    select a different input using --input=<num>.

# cat /dev/video0
<<<<<<;;;;;;;;;<<<<<<<<<;;;<<<;;;;;;<<<;;;;;;;;;


I'm running out of ideas. Can anyone help me?

[Fledermaus]

Well, thanks for all the help but it ain't working. I'm not new to linux, but I'm new to Mint. But I love it.

Anyway, I followed the steps above to install my tv @nywhere card and started up tvtime. Without success. And now I'm stuck. Having no knowledge about how the tv stuff works in linux, I'm asking you for advice plz

[Fledermaus]

Well, I tried to follow this guide but it is a bit unclear to me. I own an MSI TV@nywhere Pro and uses Mint Julia 64-bit.

I tried to follow this guide but maybe I used the wrong number? Anyway, it ain't working
82 -> MSI TV@Anywhere plus [1462:6231]

Any advice? Meanwhile, I'll try again, over and over...

[Roken]

For info - Hauppauge 1300 (notoriously difficult to get going with Linux) just works with LMDE, TVHeadend and XBMC - as does my no-name Winfast dongle.