[mythtv-users] Avermedia M179 issues w/ CVS Myth on 2.4.x kernel

[J. Donavan Stanley]

Johnny Lee wrote:

>ivtv: version 0.1.9 (release) loading
>ivtv: SGarray_size = 320, DSGarray_size = 16
>ivtv: Found an iTVC15 based chip
>PCI: Found IRQ 11 for device 02:08.0
>PCI: Sharing IRQ 11 with 00:1f.3
>PCI: Sharing IRQ 11 with 02:02.1
>tuner: chip found at addr 0xc0 i2c-bus ivtv i2c driver #0
>tuner: type set to 2 (Philips NTSC (FI1236,FM1236 and compatibles)) by
>insmod option
>tuner: The type=<n> insmod option will go away soon.
>tuner: Please use the tuner=<n> option provided by
>tuner: tv aard core driver (bttv, saa7134, ...) instead.
>saa7114.c: starting probe for adapter ivtv i2c driver #0 (0x10005)
>saa7114.c: detecting saa7114 client on address 0x42
>saa7115.c: writing init values
>status: (1E) 0x00, (1F) 0xad
>ivtv: Encoder revision: 0x02040011
>ivtv: Decoder revision: 0x02020023
>ivtv: i2c client addr: 0x61 not found!
>ivtv: Registered v4l2 device, minor 0
>ivtv: Registered v4l2 device, minor 32
>ivtv: Registered v4l2 device, minor 224
>ivtv: loaded 
>
>
>Maybe it's a firmware issue? I heard of some people having different
>firmwares. I just wasn't sure how to load them since I saw the link to a
>bunch of windows drivers.
>  
>

hmmm your dmesg output looks slightly different than mine...  The second 
card listed there is the M179

ivtv: version 0.1.9 (release) loading
ivtv: SGarray_size = 320, DSGarray_size = 16
ivtv: Found an iTVC15 based chip
ivtv: Unreasonably low latency timer, setting to 64 (was 32)
tuner: chip found @ 0xc2
tuner(bttv): type forced to 2 (Philips NTSC (FI1236,FM1236 and 
compatibles)) [insmod]
saa7114.c: starting probe for adapter ivtv i2c driver #0 (0x10005)
saa7114.c: detecting saa7114 client on address 0x42
saa7115.c: writing init values
status: (1E) 0x48, (1F) 0xc0
msp34xx: init: chip=MSP3448W-A2, has NICAM support
msp3410: daemon started
ivtv: Encoder revision: 0x02040011
ivtv: Decoder revision: 0x02020023
ivtv: Registered v4l2 device, minor 0
ivtv: Registered v4l2 device, minor 32
ivtv: Registered v4l2 device, minor 224

ivtv: Found an iTVC15 based chip
ivtv: Unreasonably low latency timer, setting to 64 (was 32)
tuner: chip found @ 0xc0
tuner(bttv): type forced to 2 (Philips NTSC (FI1236,FM1236 and 
compatibles)) [insmod]
saa7114.c: starting probe for adapter ivtv i2c driver #1 (0x10005)
saa7114.c: detecting saa7114 client on address 0x42
saa7115.c: writing init values
status: (1E) 0x00, (1F) 0xc8
ivtv: Encoder revision: 0x02040011
ivtv: Decoder revision: 0x02020023
ivtv: Registered v4l2 device, minor 1
ivtv: Registered v4l2 device, minor 33
ivtv: Registered v4l2 device, minor 225
ivtv: loaded


My modules.conf fwiw:
# ivtv modules setup
alias char-major-81 videodev
alias char-major-81-0 ivtv
options ivtv ivtv_debug=1 mpg_buffers=90
options tuner type=2  # NTSC tuner
options msp3400 once=1 simple=1 standard=0x20
add below ivtv msp3400 saa7115 tuner
add above ivtv lirc_dev lirc_i2c