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Linux Figuring out the card number of a cheap SAA7130 capture card

Posted by Admin • Sunday, June 19. 2011 • Category: Linux
So you bought yourself a cheap Philips SAA7130 (or SAA713X or SAA7134) capture card to record motion, you plugged it in and you are getting a black or grey screen. Looking in dmesg you see the famous saa7134[0]: Huh, no eeprom present (err=-5)? And
saa7134: Congratulations! Your TV card vendor saved a few saa7134: cents for a eeprom, thus your pci board has no saa7134: subsystem ID and I can't identify it automatically saa7134: I feel better now. Ok, here are the good news: saa7134: You can use the card= insmod option to specify saa7134: which board do you have. The list:
What do you do? How do you try 175 card numbers and figure out which one works? Write a script!

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