saa7134 >8 channels

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cordel
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Post by cordel »

No, you have to go in the kernel code as described. The kernel changes so often that maintaining a patch might be a problem.
foreverg
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Post by foreverg »

cordel wrote:No, you have to go in the kernel code as described. The kernel changes so often that maintaining a patch might be a problem.
I got it working, but I see.. keeping the kernel updated with this patch it's very hard
foreverg
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Post by foreverg »

I have another kink of problem now..

On moving images, i have this artifact:

Image

My /etc/modprobe.d/saa7134 i put:
option saa7134 card=37,37,37,37,37,37,37,37,37,37,37,37,37,37,37,37
blacklist saa7134_alsa
I have 4gb of system memory and 3gb of shared one.

Any suggestion?
controloye
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Re: problem solved

Post by controloye »

sir I have same problem. I have 2 saa7134 cards with 8 inputs in each card. I can see onley video0 to video7. Do not have enough knowledge to compile kernel. I have downloaded saadriver from http://dl.bytesex.org/releases/video4l ... 12.tar.gz
I have unzipped tgz file and found saa7134.h file and have added following lines as guided.
#define SAA7134_MAXBOARDS 8
#define SAA7134_INPUT_MAX 8

but failed to recompile kernel. I am on Ubuntu 8.10 please help in easy steps.

Thanks
liviud wrote:For saa7134 chipset this problem can be solved in few steps

1. download kernel sources
2. edit drivers/media/video/saa7134/saa7134.h , search for
#define SAA7134_MAXBOARDS 8
#define SAA7134_INPUT_MAX 8
and change values in what you need
3. compile
4. reboot and play

i hoppe this will help
controloye
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Re: problem solved

Post by controloye »

Sir, I have same problem. I have 2 saa7134 cards with 8 inputs in each card. I can see onley video0 to video7. Do not have enough knowledge to compile kernel. I have downloaded saadriver from http://dl.bytesex.org/releases/video4 ... 12.tar.gz
I have unzipped tgz file and found saa7134.h file and have added following lines as guided.
#define SAA7134_MAXBOARDS 8
#define SAA7134_INPUT_MAX 8

but failed to recompile kernel. I am on Ubuntu 8.10 please help in easy steps.

Thanks


liviud wrote:For saa7134 chipset this problem can be solved in few steps

1. download kernel sources
2. edit drivers/media/video/saa7134/saa7134.h , search for
#define SAA7134_MAXBOARDS 8
#define SAA7134_INPUT_MAX 8
and change values in what you need
3. compile
4. reboot and play

i hoppe this will help
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