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When I had windows 7 installed on my computer, My TV tuner card used to work fine after installing the drivers but on ubuntu it is not working. I have tried several Softwares to get it working but none helped. Today I installed Me Tv and when I open it, I get an error saying "There are no DVB devices available".

What can I do to get my Philips TV Tuner card working. I have a PCI card and here is the output of lspi command

04:00.0 Multimedia controller: Philips Semiconductors SAA7130 Video Broadcast Decoder (rev 01)

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Can you perhaps add more detail on the exact model? lspci in a terminal should be enough to get the information. – Jorge Castro Nov 12 '10 at 20:52
You can try installing the package linux-firmware-nonfree, this will install some drivers. If it does not work please post the output of lsusb if you have a usb card or lspci for a pci card, to get the excat device name. – david Nov 12 '10 at 21:01
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I added the output of lspci command, I think the last line says about the TV Tuner cause I have a Philips TV Tuner card. – Gaurav Butola Nov 12 '10 at 21:11
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http://www.linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php/Saa713x_devices

I used to have a Kworld Xpert TV PVR7134 with the SAA7134-based tvtuner You will need to find card and tuner numbers , for my card it was card=63 tuner=56. I had to add these options to /etc/modprobe.d/saa7134 with echo "options saa7134 card=63 tuner=56" > /etc/modprobe.d/saa7134

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I didn't understand what do I do now, could you please extend you answer and show some instructions. – Gaurav Butola Nov 13 '10 at 13:11
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Try installing linux-firmware-nonfree.

It has historically held a lot of drivers for TV cards and usb sticks.

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Still getting the error "There are no DVB devices available" – Gaurav Butola Nov 12 '10 at 21:28
You'll probably need to restart to have it detected (if this does add the right driver). – Oli♦ Nov 12 '10 at 21:36
I did restart but, still not working. – Gaurav Butola Nov 13 '10 at 12:43
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at first You have to tell the make and model of the card, I have the same problem, You need to create a modprobe.conf file into /etc folder manually, so run the comman in terminal

gksu nautilus

than browse to 'etc' folder, creat a empty file, name it modprobe.conf then paste the following code 

# sets tv card for both analogue and digital
options saa7134 tuner=39 card=116 gbuffers=4

tuner= and card= numbers are variable according to model, For more documentation, http://linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php/Saa713x_devices

save it, close the folder and restart, than install 'Tvtime' from software centre, dont open it, Run following command first on terminal, 

tvtime-scanner

after completing scan open Tvtime, from Sound & Video menu, I hope this work,

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