saa7134.rst (2586B)
1.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 2 3The saa7134 driver 4================== 5 6Author Gerd Hoffmann 7 8 9This is a v4l2/oss device driver for saa7130/33/34/35 based capture / TV 10boards. 11 12 13Status 14------ 15 16Almost everything is working. video, sound, tuner, radio, mpeg ts, ... 17 18As with bttv, card-specific tweaks are needed. Check CARDLIST for a 19list of known TV cards and saa7134-cards.c for the drivers card 20configuration info. 21 22 23Build 24----- 25 26Once you pick up a Kernel source, you should configure, build, 27install and boot the new kernel. You'll need at least 28these config options:: 29 30 ./scripts/config -e PCI 31 ./scripts/config -e INPUT 32 ./scripts/config -m I2C 33 ./scripts/config -m MEDIA_SUPPORT 34 ./scripts/config -e MEDIA_PCI_SUPPORT 35 ./scripts/config -e MEDIA_ANALOG_TV_SUPPORT 36 ./scripts/config -e MEDIA_DIGITAL_TV_SUPPORT 37 ./scripts/config -e MEDIA_RADIO_SUPPORT 38 ./scripts/config -e RC_CORE 39 ./scripts/config -e MEDIA_SUBDRV_AUTOSELECT 40 ./scripts/config -m VIDEO_SAA7134 41 ./scripts/config -e SAA7134_ALSA 42 ./scripts/config -e VIDEO_SAA7134_RC 43 ./scripts/config -e VIDEO_SAA7134_DVB 44 ./scripts/config -e VIDEO_SAA7134_GO7007 45 46To build and install, you should run:: 47 48 make && make modules_install && make install 49 50Once the new Kernel is booted, saa7134 driver should be loaded automatically. 51 52Depending on the card you might have to pass ``card=<nr>`` as insmod option. 53If so, please check Documentation/admin-guide/media/saa7134-cardlist.rst 54for valid choices. 55 56Once you have your card type number, you can pass a modules configuration 57via a file (usually, it is either ``/etc/modules.conf`` or some file at 58``/etc/modules-load.d/``, but the actual place depends on your 59distribution), with this content:: 60 61 options saa7134 card=13 # Assuming that your card type is #13 62 63 64Changes / Fixes 65--------------- 66 67Please mail to linux-media AT vger.kernel.org unified diffs against 68the linux media git tree: 69 70 https://git.linuxtv.org/media_tree.git/ 71 72This is done by committing a patch at a clone of the git tree and 73submitting the patch using ``git send-email``. Don't forget to 74describe at the lots what it changes / which problem it fixes / whatever 75it is good for ... 76 77 78Known Problems 79-------------- 80 81* The tuner for the flyvideos isn't detected automatically and the 82 default might not work for you depending on which version you have. 83 There is a ``tuner=`` insmod option to override the driver's default. 84 85Credits 86------- 87 88andrew.stevens@philips.com + werner.leeb@philips.com for providing 89saa7134 hardware specs and sample board.