[mythtv-users] PVR250MCE revision 2 card problems

[Jim Sager]

Dave,

Could you send me the output you get from running "lspci -v" in a shell?

Thanks,
jim

On Sunday 28 March 2004 10:05 pm, Dave and Lisa Hofstra wrote:
> Sorry about the duplicate header, but I am still not sure how to reply
> to my own thread in this forum format, here is try number two.  But this
> is important to many users of revision 2 pvr250's, and as this is not
> documented anywhere I will post it.... (see my other post if this reply
> didnt work so you can tell what I am talking about ... sorry)
>
>
>   the guy who sold it to me sent me a patch
>
> I just got a patch for the 'real' ivtv 0.1.9 driver (not the one found
> in knoppmyth) from the guy that sold me the card. They are reallly
> helpful there. If anyone wants to know where I got it, they have
> excellent tech support, wow. Anyway, I will try the patch tomorrow or
> tuesday and let you know how it works here is the text if you want to
> try it before me...
>
> Not sure why the KnoppMyth version of the driver is different than the
> 0.1.9 ivtv-driver.c, but it is. Take a look at lines 1717 - 1737 in your
> ivtv-driver.c and you'll see where you need to force the card_type. Below
> are the lines in question followed by the forced card type code. Again this
> will not work with mixed card types, they all need to be WinTV-PVR-250 MCE
> cards, or other Version 2 cards.
>
>
> ORIGINAL CODE Lines 1717-1737
> -----------------------------
>
> switch (dev->subsystem_device) {
> case IVTV_PCI_ID_250_V2:
> case IVTV_PCI_ID_250_V4:
> IVTV_DEBUG(IVTV_DEBUG_ERR, "Found an iTVC16 based chip\n");
> itv->card_type = IVTV_250_V2;
> break;
> case IVTV_PCI_ID_350_V1:
> case IVTV_PCI_ID_350_V2:
> IVTV_DEBUG(IVTV_DEBUG_ERR, "Found an iTVC15 based chip\n");
> itv->card_type = IVTV_350_V1;
> break;
> case IVTV_PCI_ID_250_V1:
> case IVTV_PCI_ID_250_V3:
> IVTV_DEBUG(IVTV_DEBUG_ERR, "Found an iTVC15 based chip\n");
> itv->card_type = IVTV_250_V1;
> break;
> default: /* Default to 250 v1 style */
> IVTV_DEBUG(IVTV_DEBUG_ERR, "Found an unknown chip, treating it like an
> iTVC15\n");
> itv->card_type = IVTV_250_V1;
> break;
> }
>
>
>
> PATCHED CODE
> ------------
> switch (dev->subsystem_device) {
> case IVTV_PCI_ID_250_V2:
> case IVTV_PCI_ID_250_V4:
> IVTV_DEBUG(IVTV_DEBUG_ERR, "Found an iTVC16 based chip\n");
> itv->card_type = IVTV_250_V2;
> break;
> case IVTV_PCI_ID_350_V1:
> case IVTV_PCI_ID_350_V2:
> IVTV_DEBUG(IVTV_DEBUG_ERR, "Found an iTVC15 based chip\n");
> itv->card_type = IVTV_250_V2;
> break;
> case IVTV_PCI_ID_250_V1:
> case IVTV_PCI_ID_250_V3:
> IVTV_DEBUG(IVTV_DEBUG_ERR, "Found an iTVC15 based chip\n");
> itv->card_type = IVTV_250_V2;
> break;
> default: /* Default to 250 v1 style */
> IVTV_DEBUG(IVTV_DEBUG_ERR, "Found an unknown chip, treating it like an
> iTVC15\n");
> itv->card_type = IVTV_250_V2;
> break;
> }
>
>
> Notice itv->card_type is always set to IVTV_250_V2.
>
> let me know if it works, otherwise I will post my restults here in a few
> days.
>
> Dave Hofstra
> lisadaveh at comcast.net