Hi everyone,

I have successfully loaded R5F27 on a spare PIII box that I have. It can record TV, but I don't get any sound. I have confirmed that my onboard sound works using aplay. I am using a capture card I got FAR from newegg it is an Encore ENLTV which has an SAA7134 chipset.

Looking here, the wiki, and other sites tell me that I need to load either saa7134-alsa or saa7134-oss. I have seen conflicting information on which one should work. However, loading either one just produces an error and no audio devices get loaded. I have pasted the error from an attempt to load saa7134-oss below. I have several questions:

1. Should I be using the internal cables that go from the CD player, into the card then out of the card and into the motherboard? Or should I be using the line out port on the ENLTV and plugging that into Line-In on the motherboard sound ports? Should I use only one of these or can I hook both up just to see if either works?
2. How can I determine which should work OSS or ALSA?
3. How can I fix this error or does this error indicate something unfixable?
4. Should I just give up a buy a Hauppage? (I am a little reluctant to buy an analog tuner at this point but I know that buying a digital tuner probaby means I need to upgrade most of my hardware)

I know that you probably need some more information to solve this but I also think this post is long enough already so I am going to see what people have to say and then go from there.

Thanks,

Jonathan Smith
smitj02@hotmail.com

saa7134 OSS driver for DMA sound loaded
BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 000001c8
printing eip:
d8edb011
*pde = 00000000
Oops: 0000 [#1]
PREEMPT SMP
Modules linked in: saa7134_oss nvidia autofs4 ipv6 af_packet fuse usbhid pcmcia yenta_socket rsrc_nonstatic pcmcia_core video thermal sbs processor i2c_ec fan container button battery ac unionfs ohci_hcd ehci_hcd cx88_vp3054_i2c cx8802 cx88xx saa7134_dvb video_buf_dvb tda1004x nvram dvb_bt8xx dvb_core bt878 bttv i2c_algo_bit btcx_risc tveeprom firmware_class tuner tea5767 tda8290 tuner_simple mt20xx usb_storage saa7134 video_buf compat_ioctl32 ir_kbd_i2c i2c_core ir_common parport_pc parport 8250_pnp 8250 serial_core videodev v4l2_common v4l1_compat uhci_hcd intel_agp agpgart snd_intel8x0 snd_ac97_codec snd_ac97_bus snd_pcm_oss snd_mixer_oss snd_pcm snd_timer snd soundcore snd_page_alloc shpchp pci_hotplug evdev tsdev usbcore sbp2 ohci1394 ieee1394 aic7xxx
CPU: 0
EIP: 0060:[<d8edb011>] Tainted: P VLI
EFLAGS: 00010246 (2.6.18-chw-13 #1)
EIP is at saa7134_oss_init1+0x21/0x150 [saa7134_oss]
eax: d567e108 ebx: d567e000 ecx: d8edbea8 edx: 00000000
esi: d567e050 edi: d2eabb68 ebp: 00000017 esp: d029bea0
ds: 007b es: 007b ss: 0068
Process modprobe (pid: 7139, ti=d029a000 task=cbaa4990 task.ti=d029a000)
Stack: d8edb9e0 000000a0 d567e108 d567e050 d567e000 d567e000 d8edb152 d567e000
d567e000 d567e000 d8edb636 d567e000 d8edd080 d2eab800 c013fe73 00000000
d8edd0c8 d8edd08c d8be0980 d8edd080 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
Call Trace:
[<d8edb9e0>] saa7134_oss_irq+0x0/0x8a [saa7134_oss]
[<d8edb152>] oss_device_init+0x12/0xa0 [saa7134_oss]
[<d8edb636>] saa7134_oss_init+0x66/0xc0 [saa7134_oss]
[<c013fe73>] sys_init_module+0x133/0x1ba0
[<c015dd7d>] __handle_mm_fault+0x23d/0x950
[<c0119cd1>] do_page_fault+0x141/0x5a8
[<c01031f7>] syscall_call+0x7/0xb
Code: 43 bb ed d8 e9 5d ff ff ff 90 56 53 8b 5c 24 0c 8b 93 2c 01 00 00 8d 83 08 01 00 00 8d 73 50 56 50 68 a0 00 00 00 68 e0 b9 ed d8 <8b> 82 c8 01 00 00 50 e8 f3 26 27 e7 83 ca ff 83 c4 14 85 c0 0f
EIP: [<d8edb011>] saa7134_oss_init1+0x21/0x150 [saa7134_oss] SS:ESP 0068:d029bea0

OK, three weeks and no responses.

Is there a better place to put this?

How about just the cables question. What do most people do? An external cable from the capture card to the sound card? Or an internal cable CD-ROM to capture card and then capture card to motherboard?