Tvcard

because from across the world I can't open your box and read what it says on the card. What brand / type do you think it is?
could you
copy that bit from dmesg here
and
lspci -v

and tell me what version of mepis you are using - i need a kernel number.

Sorry drlizau, not enough info.
I am using Mepis 6
First up the approppriate lspci section.

0000:00:0a.0 Multimedia controller: Philips Semiconductors SAA7134 Video Broadca
st Decoder (rev 01)
Subsystem: Philips Semiconductors: Unknown device 0000
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 201
Memory at f8103000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=1K]
Capabilities:

This is the dmesg part, followed by the possible cards.

[17179588.096000] saa7134:
[17179588.096000] saa7134: Congratulations! Your TV card vendor saved a few
[17179588.096000] saa7134: cents for a eeprom, thus your pci board has no
[17179588.096000] saa7134: subsystem ID and I can't identify it automatically
[17179588.096000] saa7134:
[17179588.096000] saa7134: I feel better now. Ok, here are the good news:
[17179588.096000] saa7134: You can use the card= insmod option to specify
[17179588.096000] saa7134: which board do you have. The list:

[17179588.096000] saa7134: card=59 -> Kworld/Tevion V-Stream Xpert TV PVR7134

[17179588.096000] saa7134: card=63 -> Kworld Xpert TV PVR7134

[17179588.096000] saa7134: card=6 -> Tevion MD 9717

[17179588.096000] saa7134: card=12 -> Medion 7134 16be:0003

The card was purchased from ALdi store, on the box its called a Tevion, which is there brand name, but a lot of them are made by Medion. So anyone of the four is a possibility. Ernie

i have two of them. model DVBT-220RF
the linux drivers are much better than the windows ones.

it's card 88, and not in that version of mepis.
you can get it in a 2.6.17 or later kernel
or add the driver using mercurial

it's not exactly easy.
you need to install mercurial, and linux-source.
linux-source has to be untarred and and symlinked to /usr/src/linux.

you then change into /usr/src/linux and run the mercurial command to get new patches from video4linux
http://linuxtv.org/v4lwiki/index.php/How_to_build_from_mercurial
i know that one time i built the drivers I had troubel and needed to head off to irc for advice, but the next time it built without difficulty.

Hi drlizau, thanks for the feedback, I have downloaded the file, But I may have to give it a miss, at leased for a while anyhow, until my confidence level raises some. I have just gone through a period of install and reinstal to last me for some time to come, I don't think I could stand having to resetup all over again. Ill go without the TV for now, maybe I will look for a card that is more compatable. Thanks for your time, I am sure it will help someone down the track, I will certainly keep it on file. Ernie

drlizau,

Isnt there a vesa or framebuffer solution which ernihatt could try?

Later:

Oops, didn't note the date. Probably doesn't matter by now.

yeti