Hi all, For last two days, I've been really trying to get my RTD CM7327 grabber card to run on Linux. Vendor says: "Open source Video4Linux2 driver available for 2.4 and 2.6 kernels". lspci says: "Philips Semiconductors SAA7146" Those are my best results: *** 2.6 *** I've tried: latest Knoppix CD, Debian 2.6.15-rc4, 2.6.14 configured by myself, with all saa7146-related modules compiled in. I loaded different modules (saa7146 with "debug_7146=1"), including all extensions to saa7146, but none printed anything about finding a device to syslog. I also did "cat /dev/video*", all gave "No such device". At last, I tried 2.6.14 with dvb from cvs - same result. *** 2.4 *** It was a bit tricky with 2.4 series. It seems this chipset is or was supported by 2.4 video4linux/dvb. I downloaded dvb from cvs: separately the most current one from main branch (I'll call it "2.6 cvs") and, as it didn't compile for 2.4, I downloaded the current "2.4" branch - I'll call it "2.4 cvs". I did manage to compile the "2.4 cvs" version. Unfortunately, there wasn't cm7327.o in there. I couldn't fully compile the cm7327.c driver with dependencies from "2.6 cvs", but the cm7327.o module did compile. So, I loaded all dependencies compiled from "2.4 cvs" (videodev, saa7146, saa7146_vv, ...) and then inserted cm7327.o from "2.4 cvs". The result: "cm7327.o: init_module: No such device". *** 2.2 *** Vendor supplies a binary module for 2.2. I did manage to load it, but it didn't register a 81-mayor device, but created some "hexsaa7146*" devices in /dev with a high mayor number. I didn't know how to make a video4linux app to run with it. (And I couldn't even make the x.org Xserver work under 2.2.. I'm too young to know 2.2 tricks :)) I'd really appreciate any hints! Hardware vendor clearly says the card is supported by some opensource video4linux driver, so I guess I must be doing something wrong? TIA, Tomasz Noinski
