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Getting the Sabrent TV card working with tvtime.

First I ran the following to remove the running drivers:

sudo modprobe -r saa7134_alsa
sudo modprobe -r saa7134_dvb
sudo modprobe -r saa7134

Then I ran (to configure the drivers, these settings worked for me but you may have to select other tuner settings):

sudo modprobe saa7134 card=42 tuner=43

Then just type:

tvtime

If these setting worked you should be able to watch TV.

If that worked, to make it permanent do the following:

Edit the saa7134 file to hold these values at bootup:

sudo gedit /etc/modprobe.d/saa7134

add line:

options saa7134 card=42 tuner=43

Then type:

sudo gedit /etc/modules

and lines:

# Module to load video capture
saa7134

REBOOT and try it out, you should have TV now. For a $15-$20 card it does a pretty good job.

Something I think to pass the audio looks neat haven’t tried it though I just go from audio out to audio in on the internal sound card and it sounds fine to me, night be worth a shot though:

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=172085

Also for the FM Radio I used gnomeradio and had to change the device to /dev/radio0 instead of dev/radio. Although it seems to get crap for reception.