Cheers Nick, I will give this a go tomorrow night, when I get some time on the PC. I have got so confused with all of the options that people have recommended with this card this I think I've gone round and round in circles and haven't got anywhere, so I will try this approach on a fresh install making sure that I have the necessary kernel modules compiled for use.
I've got a spare 40GB drive sitting around so will do a fresh Gentoo 2005.0 install on that tomorrow night and hopefully get things up and running. I think that when I do get it running I might have to write a how-to of my own so that others can avoid the issues that I have had. > Jamie, i found this without too much problem by googling, not sure if > you have tried it: > > "I could get sound to my Pinnacle PCTV Stereo card (driver saa7134) when I > added "options tda9887 qss=0" to my /etc/modprobe.conf file as suggested > in some other discussion thread, restarted my PC, and checked and > unchecked Channel Management -> Use PAL-DK audio decoding in tvtime > application. > > I was having "audio carrier scan failed" lines in /var/log/messages and > /var/log/dmesg. I have Fedora Core 3 with 2.6.9 kernel. > " > > http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/showthread.php?s=&forumid=10&threadid=260926 > > > On Wed, 13 Jul 2005 13:48:06 +1200 (NZST) > Jamie Dobbs wrote: >> >> 1/ With the Pinnacle PCTV Stereo (now saa7134 based) I can get picture >> but >> no sound in Xawtv, kdetv etc. but nothing at all in MythTV. ** THIS IS >> MY >> MAIN PROBLEM, after all what use is TV without sound? ** >> (As an aside in Windows I do get sound from the card with no issues, and >> I >> have tried all I can think of with regard to levels, lines and inputs >> under Linux but there is obviously something I am missing) >> > > > >
