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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. Nov 12, 2010 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, 2010 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. Nov 12, 2010 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. Nov 13, 2010 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" Nov 12, 2010 at 21:28
  • You'll probably need to restart to have it detected (if this does add the right driver).
    – Oli
    Nov 12, 2010 at 21:36
  • I did restart but, still not working. Nov 13, 2010 at 12:43
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At first you have to tell the make and model of the card, then you need to create a modprobe.conf file in the /etc folder manually, then run the command:

gksu nautilus

in the terminal and browse to the /etc folder, create an 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

The numbers after tuner= and card= are variable according to your model.

For more documentation look here.

Then save the file, close the folder and restart, than install 'Tvtime' from the software centre but don't open it and run the following command first on the terminal:

tvtime-scanner

after completing the above scan open Tvtime from the Sound & Video menu

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