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Posted: Thu Mar 26, 2009 6:51 pm
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.
Posted: Mon Mar 30, 2009 4:32 pm
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
Posted: Mon Mar 30, 2009 4:57 pm
by foreverg
I have another kink of problem now..
On moving images, i have this artifact:
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?
Re: problem solved
Posted: Wed Sep 23, 2009 7:04 pm
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
Re: problem solved
Posted: Wed Sep 23, 2009 7:07 pm
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