[mythtv-users] Hauppaugge PVR250 recognized as PVR150

Todd Bailey toddb at toddbailey.net
Sun Aug 21 22:53:28 UTC 2005


thanks for the info

after an hour of additional research and (a lot of) experimentation I came 
across a method to fix this issue
  the key was adding the following line to modprobe.conf

options ivtv cardtype=2

in the future I ask that when people find a fix to a given problem they 
insure the fix is syntaxically correct.




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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Michael T. Dean" <mtdean at thirdcontact.com>
To: "Discussion about mythtv" <mythtv-users at mythtv.org>
Sent: Sunday, August 21, 2005 2:13 PM
Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Hauppaugge PVR250 recognized as PVR150


> On 08/21/05 16:07, Todd Bailey wrote:
>
>> Has anyone ever come up with a fix for this problem?
>
> I'm sure there are several, but the right way is described in ivtv's 
> output:
>
> ivtv: ==================== START INIT IVTV ====================
> ivtv: version 0.x.x  loading
> ivtv: Linux version: 2.x.x
> ivtv: In case of problems please include the debug info
> ivtv: between the START INIT IVTV and END INIT IVTV lines when
> ivtv: mailing the ivtv-devel mailinglist.
>
> As a matter of fact, your log file probably even says:
>
> ivtv: Defaulting to PVR-150 card
> ivtv: Please mail the vendor/device and subsystem vendor/device IDs and 
> what kind of
> ivtv: card you have to the ivtv-devel mailinglist: 
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/ivtv
> ivtv: Prefix your subject line with [UNKNOWN CARD].
>
> (so, adding the results of 'lspci -v' would give the developers everything 
> they need to make your card get recognized)
>
>> I am running a new install, this time FC4 and myth worked the first time.
>>
>> Unfortunantly,  I had to reboot and now myth doesn't function.
>>
>> dmsg reports the card as a 150 not a 250.
>
> IvyTV versions 0.1.x and 0.2.x will assume a card is a PVR-250 is the card 
> isn't recognized.  Since version 0.3.x is primarily concerned with getting 
> PVR-150 and PVR-500 support added to ivtv, it assumes the card is a 
> PVR-150.
>
> Since IvyTV made the assumption that a card was a PVR-250 unless it was 
> recognized before the PVR-150 and PVR-500 were released, pretty much the 
> only people who reported card details as described were PVR-350 users (at 
> least until the cardtype option was added, at which point, people stopped 
> reporting the details).  Therefore, most older PVR-350's and some newer 
> PVR-350's are recognized, but a great number of PVR-250's are not (because 
> for some reason people didn't read their log messages, so they didn't 
> realize they should report them ;).
>
> It's quite likely that IvyTV will make the assumption in the future that a 
> card is a PVR-150 unless recognized (since most new cards will be 
> PVR-150's), so it would definitely be good to report yours as 
> unrecognized...
>
>> a while back someone mentioned setting card options in the modprobe.conf 
>> file, but didn't detail the edits needed.
>
> While this would work, it doesn't help all those other people who have 
> cards like you, so getting the driver fixed is probably the better 
> approach...
>
> Other approaches:
>    - Use ivtv 0.2.x (if you have a PVR-150 or PVR-500 in addition to the 
> PVR-250, this approach may not work).
>    - Edit ivtv-cards.c to include the PCI ID of your card
>    - Specify the cardtype option to your ivtv module (i.e. add a line 
> "options ivtv cardtype=x" where "x" is the appropriate value for the 
> cardtype option as listed by "modinfo ivtv")
>
> However, if you don't post your card's info, think of all the people whose 
> cards have the same PCI ID as yours who will be asking how to make their 
> PVR-250 that's "recognized" as a PVR-150 work...  So, to help answer some 
> of those questions, if you decide not to provide the requested info to the 
> IvyTV ML, I expect you to answer at least 20 e-mail requests for this 
> information.  So, posting the card info once is probably easier than 
> providing this information 20 times.  ;)
>
> Thanks,
> Mike
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