[ubuntu-za] Video Broadcast Controller

[Robert Holm]

On Fri, 2009-05-15 at 11:50 +0200, Neil Muller wrote:
> On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 10:22:08AM +0200, Russell Cloran wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 11:38 PM, Robert Holm <robhholm at lantic.net> wrote:
> > >> > I don't want to give up on this too easily. Does anyone have any idea
> > >> > what determines rc5 and rc4, or what the letters "rc" even stand for, so
> > >> > that I can delve a little deeper?
> > 
> > I've always thought it stood for "resource configuration". Wikipedia
> > disagrees, though.
> 
> In this case, though, it's part of an error message from the driver, so
> it's probably being used to mean "return code".
> 
> Returning to the problem which sparked the side-thread.
> 
> Given the error message, it look like the automatic detection of the
> tuner type is selecting the wrong tuner. Detecting the tuner correctly
> is one of the hard problems (largely due to hardware manufacturers not
> providing reliable methods for detecting hardware changes (this also
> makes searching for relevant information hard)). The gentoo wiki lists a
> couple of scripts for trying to loop through all possible tuner types,
> see http://www.gentoo-wiki.info/SAA7134 - while tedious, this is
> probably the best bet at this point.

Thanks for this. 

I downloaded the info from the wiki and this instructs: "Check if udev
found your saa7314 card at boot and loaded all devices automatically. If
it did you should have a folder called /dev/v4l/ and in that 1-3 devices
belonging to your card"

I have the folder, but it shows no devices. It then goes on to say:
"Most likely cause, you didn't compile v4l and/or the saa713x module.
Check by modprobe saa7134 -v". I did this, but it returns nothing.

Next comment: "If it's not found you will have to add them as modules
and recompile your kernel. Also remember to add the saa713x-alsa &
saa713x-oss modules as well while configuring the kernel."

Apart from the fact that I haven't the slightest idea how to go about
this, it sounds like a major operation and frankly scares the hell out
of me, so I think whenever I want to use the facility, I'll just boot up
Windoze.

But I have found out a lot of interesting stuff along the way, so it
wasn't a waste, and I thank everyone who took the time to help.

Robert