Akom's Tech Ruminations

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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