RESOLVED: Re: [mythtv-users] PVR-150

[Chris Ribe]

I shut down my system back around halloween, and it took me a couple of
weeks before I got around to bringing it back up, but the extra-cold boot
did the trick. PVR-150 was recognized as such and errors in dmesg went away.

PVR-150 is back to capturing video as its creator intended it to.

On 10/31/05, Rudy Zijlstra <mythtv at edsons.demon.nl> wrote:
>
> Shawn wrote:
>
> >John Cartwright wrote:
> >
> >
> >>Hello,
> >>
> >>I've got a PVR-150. Sometimes for whatever reason mine gets
> >>recognized as a PVR-250 like your dmesg output says in which case I
> >>lose video. The only solution I've found to this problem has been
> >>to turn the machine completely off for about 10 - 30 seconds and
> >>then try again. I think I read somewhere that the registers in the
> >>tuner take a while to completely clear hence the 10 - 30 second
> >>wait. Hope this helps. Let us know if you find something that
> >>works out better.
> >>
> >>
> >
> >This has happened to me also, and performing a cold boot (turning the
> >machine off and unplugging it for 30 seconds) usually does the trick.
> >I've read that it has something to do with the firmware.
> >
> >
> No, With the HW retaining settings until all kinds of elcos and such
> have fully lost power....
> Combined with it being very difficult to fully reset the HW (result of
> HW design).
>
> Rudy
>
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