[mythtv-users] PVR-500 (MCE?) Firmware

[cythrault at gmail.com]

Hi,

I wanted to let you know that I prevailed against a PVR-500. :)

I had the oh-so-common static / back screen. While Googling about it I
found a "bug report" for Jarod's guide filed by Niklas :

http://svn.wilsonet.com/projects/mythtvology/ticket/20

… which says that the message from the ivtv driver about using the
recommended firmware version is "nothing to be worried about". Well,
sorry Jarod, it's not. ;)

I downloaded the right firmware. I had to shutdown for a minute but
after that everything started working like a charm.

I don't know if it's a issue with the MCE version of the PVR-500 or
certain revisions of the card. Anyhow, here's the output of lspci -vv:

02:08.0 Multimedia video controller: Internext Compression Inc iTVC16
(CX23416) MPEG-2 Encoder (rev 01)
        Subsystem: Hauppauge computer works Inc.: Unknown device e807
        Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop-
ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B-
        Status: Cap+ 66Mhz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=medium
>TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
        Latency: 64 (32000ns min, 2000ns max), Cache Line Size 08
        Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 10
        Region 0: Memory at e0000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=64M]
        Capabilities: [44] Power Management version 2
                Flags: PMEClk- DSI- D1- D2- AuxCurrent=0mA
PME(D0-,D1-,D2-,D3hot-,D3cold-)
                Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME-

02:09.0 Multimedia video controller: Internext Compression Inc iTVC16
(CX23416) MPEG-2 Encoder (rev 01)
        Subsystem: Hauppauge computer works Inc.: Unknown device e817
        Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop-
ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B-
        Status: Cap+ 66Mhz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=medium
>TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
        Latency: 64 (32000ns min, 2000ns max), Cache Line Size 08
        Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 11
        Region 0: Memory at e4000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=64M]
        Capabilities: [44] Power Management version 2
                Flags: PMEClk- DSI- D1- D2- AuxCurrent=0mA
PME(D0-,D1-,D2-,D3hot-,D3cold-)
                Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME-

Thanks!

-- 
cyth