Installing saa7130 in 2.6.18

rsdvd · Post by **rsdvd** » Mon Mar 16, 2009 6:33 pm

Hi All

I am trying to install a new zoneminder server, but I cannot get it to recognise my saa7130 card!

I am using Centos5 with a 2.6.18 kernel, and lspci shows all 8 of the "Philips Semiconductors SAA7130 Video Broadcast Decoder (rev 01)" chips, but there is no enties in dmesg regarding the card at all.

Also, I cannot find any saa7134.ko anywhere in the kernel source.

Has this driver been removed from the standard kernel? Does anyone have an 8-port saa7130 working, and could point me in the right direction?

Can anyone offer any help in getting this to install?

Thanks in advance
Phil.

newvisionantenna · Post by **newvisionantenna** » Mon Mar 16, 2009 6:39 pm

I've helped people get capture cards working with my DVD. I can try and help you with yours if you put the server on a public ip and pm me login info. I've looked up your card and it looks like people have it working in 7.10 and 8.04 ubuntu, didn't see centos.

newvisionantenna · Post by **newvisionantenna** » Mon Mar 16, 2009 8:10 pm

The only thing I could dig up was this,

"I just installed the centosplus kernel on a freshly installed C5 box, and toracat is correct. It does contain the saa7134 module. Works great!"

I'm not sure if that's your card.

Blazer · Post by **Blazer** » Mon Mar 16, 2009 8:28 pm

I agree you should try upgrading to a CentosPlus kernel, as they are a bit newer and have more modules.

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yum --enablerepo=centosplus upgrade kernel

And then reboot and check your dmesg and ls -l /dev/vid*

rsdvd · Post by **rsdvd** » Mon Mar 16, 2009 9:02 pm

Thank you both very much!

I have upgraded to the Plus kernel - and I now have video0-8 devices!

I will now install zoneminder and see if it all works!

Thanks again!