I wouldn’t have thought so, but I’m not sure.
You did select GNOME Classic, and not GNOME Classic (no effects) didn’t you ?
Yep
Just checked and its here
Shall we continue with the original problem tomorrow, if you’d like?
Just rebooted and it’s looking ok ;D
Yeh … tomorrow, need to do some looking around … try not to create any new problems before we solve this one 
Found any answers yet?
I’ve got a few ideas … but still looking.
No probs, don’t mind how long it takes you.
Just been browsing other posts and found this one… http://linuxforums.org.uk/index.php?topic=9569.0
I am thinking my TV card is not being ‘seen’ my the system, otherwise it would have been given a device number such as video1 (like, I think my webcam is) and is yet to be installed by being given a ‘driver’
So, maybe it might not be compatible with my OS? (just a thought)
No, it’s recognising the card and loading the correct driver (saa7134) … but it probably needs some parameters passing to the driver (saa7134 card=78 tuner=54).
That’s what I was trying to do above 
I’ve an idea how to do it at bootup, but want to research it a bit further … I’ll get round to researching and typing it up as soon as I have time.
Don’t panic, I haven’t forgot this
I know what you’re saying, but so I can understand a bit better, where is the GFX card? it should be in one of the postings from earlier?
I don’t understand the question ?
Erm … No … It should be in your PC
lol…
I … you know what I meant
in one of the posting you got me to get info on what’s connected (I think) if not, what’s the command to do that? so I can see and understand it a bit better
Depends …
This will list most hardware in the system:
sudo lshw
If you are looking for the graphics card in particular (out of the above output):
sudo lshw -C display
This will list devices attached to the USB bus:
lsusb
This will give a more verbose output:
lsusb -v
This will list devices attached to the PCI bus:
lspci
This will give a more verbose output:
lspci -v
This will give an even more verbose output:
lspci -vv
This will include the PCI vendor and device codes:
lspci -vvn
This will include the PCI vendor and device codes as both numbers and names:
lspci -vvnn
For more options for a given command, see the commands manpage (manual) … to do this, open a terminal, and precede the command with man and a space … as in -
man lsusb
man lshw
man lspci
man cp
man grep
man ifconfig
etc.
Try this …
Create and edit an /etc/modprobe.d/saa7134.conf file:
sudo gedit /etc/modprobe.d/saa7134.conf
an EMPTY document should open in gedit … add this line:
options saa7134 card=78 tuner=54
Visually check that line (particularly if you copy/pasted) to check no spaces appeared where they shouldn’t be.
SAVE the file, and exit gedit.
Now, REBOOT, and check what TvTime does now … can you post the output when you start tvtime from the command line.
peter@Petes-ubuntu-pc:~$ tvtime
Running tvtime 1.0.2.
Reading configuration from /etc/tvtime/tvtime.xml
Reading configuration from /home/peter/.tvtime/tvtime.xml
videoinput: Driver won’t tell us its norm: Invalid argument
videoinput: Can’t get tuner info: Invalid argument
Your capture card driver: uvcvideo [USB 2.0 Camera/usb-0000:00:12.2-6/65792]
does not support full size studio-quality images required by tvtime.
This is true for many low-quality webcams. Please select a
different video device for tvtime to use with the command line
option --device.
mixer: find error: Success
mixer: Can’t open mixer default, mixer volume and mute unavailable.
mixer: Can’t open device default/Line, mixer volume and mute unavailable.
Found “USB 2.0 Camera : USB Audio (hw:1,0)”
Segmentation fault
peter@Petes-ubuntu-pc:~$
http://img190.imageshack.us/img190/596/vovideo01.th.jpg
This was WITH the webcam connected, I’ll disconnect it and try again and post the output again.
peter@Petes-ubuntu-pc:~$ tvtime
Running tvtime 1.0.2.
Reading configuration from /etc/tvtime/tvtime.xml
Reading configuration from /home/peter/.tvtime/tvtime.xml
mixer: find error: Success
mixer: Can’t open mixer default, mixer volume and mute unavailable.
mixer: Can’t open device default/Line, mixer volume and mute unavailable.
/home/peter/.tvtime/stationlist.xml: No existing PAL station list “custom”.
/home/peter/.tvtime/stationlist.xml: No existing PAL station list “custom”.
Thank you for using tvtime.
peter@Petes-ubuntu-pc:~$
http://img820.imageshack.us/img820/4079/done01.th.jpg
http://img141.imageshack.us/img141/8489/done02.th.jpg
http://img97.imageshack.us/img97/860/done03.th.jpg
Webcam Not connected.
Looks like it doesn’t like my webcam or some more tweaking of settings somehow is needed.
imageshack isn’t letting me see the middle pic … so is the TV working or not ?
Or can’t it find any channels.
Is it any better than it WAS with these settings ?
[EDIT]
Can you run:
dmesg | grep saa71 > ~/dmesg.txt
you’ll then find a file in your home directory called dmesg.txt … can you add it as an attachment to your next posting.
Can you do the same thing with:
lspci -vnn > ~/lspci.txt
you’ll then find a file in your home directory called lspci.txt … can you add it as an attachment to your next posting.
After what you said to do yesterday, I got a lot further than before, it didn’t say ‘Television’ before.
what’s the output from:
lsmod | grep tuner
if nothing is returned, try running:
sudo modprobe tuner
Then try tvtime again.
peter@Petes-ubuntu-pc:~$ lsmod | grep tuner
tuner 27428 0
v4l2_common 16454 2 tuner,saa7134
videodev 93004 3 tuner,saa7134,v4l2_common
peter@Petes-ubuntu-pc:~$
if nothing is returned, try running:sudo modprobe tuner
Returned nothing.
Then try tvtime again.
Not getting any picture.