Leadtek DTV 1000s in kernel 3.6 (debian wheezy)

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My Leadtek DTV 1000s has been working fine for a long time after the initial set-up, but when upgrading from kernel 3.4.0 to 3.6.0 on my tv computer' it suddenly stopped working.

lspci shows

01:06.0 Multimedia controller: Philips Semiconductors SAA7130 Video Broadcast Decoder (rev 01)

but

 lsmod|grep saa 

returns nothing and there's nothing that looks right in /dev

Finally

sudo modprobe saa7134
FATAL: Module saa7134 not found.

 ls /lib/modules/3.4.0-amd64/kernel/drivers/media

common  dvb  media.ko  radio  rc  video

but

ls /lib/modules/3.6.0-amd64/kernel/drivers/media

common  dvb

Basically, saa7134.ko is never built.

I installed kernel 3.6 from deb files compiled on another computer. My first step was to uninstall linux-headers-3.6.0-amd64 and linux-image-3.6.0-amd64

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Next, to get the saa7134 module-- roughly follow this post we get

wget http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.0/linux-3.6.tar.bz2
tar xvf linux-3.6.tar.bz2
cd linux-3.6/
cat /boot/config-`uname -r`>.config
make oldconfig

Make sure to answer in the affirmative here:

* Multimedia support
*
Multimedia support (MEDIA_SUPPORT) [M/n/y/?] Y
*
* Multimedia core support
*
Cameras/video grabbers support (MEDIA_CAMERA_SUPPORT) [N/y/?] (NEW) Y
Analog TV support (MEDIA_ANALOG_TV_SUPPORT) [N/y/?] (NEW)
Digital TV support (MEDIA_DIGITAL_TV_SUPPORT) [N/y/?] (NEW) Y
AM/FM radio receivers/transmitters support (MEDIA_RADIO_SUPPORT) [N/y/?] (NEW)
Remote Controller support (MEDIA_RC_SUPPORT) [N/y/?] (NEW) Y

Then build as usual
time fakeroot make-kpkg -j2 --initrd --revision=3.6.0 --append-to-version=-amd64 kernel_image kernel_headers

You can check that it built by

me@lithium:~/tmp/linux-3.6$ ls drivers/media/video/saa7134/*.ko -lah-rw-r--r-- 1 andy andy 280K Oct  9 09:08 drivers/media/video/saa7134/saa6752hs.ko-rw-r--r-- 1 andy andy 473K Oct  9 09:08 drivers/media/video/saa7134/saa7134-alsa.ko-rw-r--r-- 1 andy andy 623K Oct  9 09:08 drivers/media/video/saa7134/saa7134-dvb.ko-rw-r--r-- 1 andy andy 494K Oct  9 09:08 drivers/media/video/saa7134/saa7134-empress.ko-rw-r--r-- 1 andy andy 3.7M Oct  9 09:08 drivers/media/video/saa7134/saa7134.ko

All that's left now is to install the kernel:
mv ../linux*3.6*.deb . 
sudo dpkg -i *.deb

and you're done -- unless you have an nvidia graphics card, in which case

me@lithium:~/tmp/linux-3.6$ sudo dpkg-reconfigure nvidia-kernel-dkms-------- Uninstall Beginning --------Module:  nvidiaVersion: 304.48Kernel:  3.4.0-amd64 (x86_64)-------------------------------------Status: Before uninstall, this module version was ACTIVE on this kernel.nvidia.ko: - Uninstallation   - Deleting from: /lib/modules/3.4.0-amd64/updates/dkms/ - Original module   - No original module was found for this module on this kernel.   - Use the dkms install command to reinstall any previous module version.depmod.......DKMS: uninstall completed.-------- Uninstall Beginning --------Module:  nvidiaVersion: 304.48Kernel:  3.6.0-amd64 (x86_64)-------------------------------------Status: Before uninstall, this module version was ACTIVE on this kernel.nvidia.ko: - Uninstallation   - Deleting from: /lib/modules/3.6.0-amd64/updates/dkms/ - Original module   - No original module was found for this module on this kernel.   - Use the dkms install command to reinstall any previous module version.depmod....DKMS: uninstall completed.------------------------------Deleting module version: 304.48completely from the DKMS tree.------------------------------Done.Loading new nvidia-304.48 DKMS files...Building for 3.4.0-amd64 and 3.6.0-amd64Building initial module for 3.4.0-amd64Done.nvidia:Running module version sanity check. - Original module   - No original module exists within this kernel - Installation   - Installing to /lib/modules/3.4.0-amd64/updates/dkms/depmod....DKMS: install completed.Building initial module for 3.6.0-amd64Done.nvidia:Running module version sanity check. - Original module   - No original module exists within this kernel - Installation   - Installing to /lib/modules/3.6.0-amd64/updates/dkms/depmod....DKMS: install completed.