[mythtv-users] PVR 500 defective?

[Cory Papenfuss]

 	I will try to look closer at my card tonight and see if I can see 
if my dmesg log matches anyone else's situation.  My trouble is getting 
the machine in the same place as the cable signal and 'net access.

-Cory

On Wed, 28 Sep 2005, Danesh wrote:

> Cory::
>
> Both tuners seem to initialize.
>
>
> Dave::
>
> Under /lib/modules I have
>
> -r--r--r--   1 root root 369K Sep 27 23:07 HcwFalcn.rom
> -r--r--r--   1 root root  14K Sep 27 23:07 HcwMakoA.ROM
> lrwxrwxrwx   1 root root   25 Sep 27 23:07 ivtv-fw-enc.bin ->
> /lib/modules/HcwFa
>
> md5sums
>
> 5f5fa240ada73c3565f5f7de4c7b5138  HcwFalcn.rom
> 3a4803384f749d644ee1f1ca9dcb12fa  HcwMakoA.ROM
> 5f5fa240ada73c3565f5f7de4c7b5138  ivtv-fw-enc.bin
>
> I will try downgrading the firmware to an older version. Is the
> 0x02040011 version the one on the CD?
>
> I can access both tuners fine. Only one gives me nothing but static. I
> don't know if this is related to a 'vbi: Invalid argument' I get on
> the terminal when mythfrontend is running.
>
>
> Greg::
>
> Thanks for the pointer. I had it setup this way already. The capturing
> Im trying to do which is giving me static is using ptune and cat
> /dev/v4l/video0 > ~/vid0.mpg. The tuner0, tuner1, s-video0, etc
> doesn't come into it.
>
>
>
> On 9/28/05, Dave Sherohman <esper at sherohman.org> wrote:
>> On Wed, Sep 28, 2005 at 10:34:40AM -0400, Cory Papenfuss wrote:
>>>       There was a thread about a similar thing on ivtv-devel a week or
>>> so ago.  A friend of mine's PVR-500 and the one I recently purchased has
>>> the same problem:  only tuner1 works... tuner2 is static.  I haven't had
>>> time to work on mine and figure it out.
>>
>> Looks to me like Danesh has a different problem...  He said he's
>> getting static from the first tuner (he calls it "video0", you call
>> it "tuner 1"), while the second works fine.
>>
>> I have a problem with mine where the first tuner works fine and the
>> second tuner returns nothing, though, and haven't been able to get
>> anything definitive from ivtv-users...  Guess I'll have to check out
>> ivtv-devel and see what I can find there.
>>
>>>       IIRC, the current theory has to do with i2c not initializing it
>>> properly and/or the tveeprom module used is the wrong one.  I tried
>>> manually loading the ivtv-based tveeprom on mine last night (rather than
>>> the kernel one), but no joy.
>>
>> Oh, looks like you're affected by the problem under discussion on
>> ivtv-devel?  Do you show a bunch of errors in dmesg that look like
>> "ivtv warning: i2c client addr: 0x44 not found for command
>> 0x40046406!"?  If so, that's the same problem I have...  (Danesh,
>> OTOH, is definitely having a different problem than I am, since he
>> initializes without any of those errors.)
>>
>>>  On Wed, 28 Sep 2005, Danesh wrote:
>>
>>>> cx25840: loading /lib/modules/HcwMakoA.ROM
>>>> ivtv: i2c attach to card #0 ok [client=cx25840, addr=44]
>>>> ivtv: i2c attach to card #0 ok [client=wm8775, addr=1b]
>>>> tda9885/6/7: chip found @ 0x86
>>>> ivtv: i2c attach to card #0 ok [client=tda9887, addr=43]
>>>> ivtv: loading /lib/modules/ivtv-fw-enc.bin
>>>> ivtv: Encoder revision: 0x02050032
>>>> ivtv warning: Encoder Firmware can be buggy, use version 0x02040011!!!!
>>
>> This is what I would look at first.  Are you sure you have the right
>> firmware binaries in /lib/modules?  Here's what I've got in mine:
>>
>> -r--r--r--  1 root root  14264 2005-08-27 20:14 HcwMakoA.ROM
>> -rw-r--r--  1 root root 262144 2005-08-27 20:12 ivtv-fw-dec.bin
>> -rw-r--r--  1 root root 262144 2005-08-27 20:12 ivtv-fw-enc.bin
>>
>> # md5sum HcwMakoA.ROM ivtv-fw-dec.bin ivtv-fw-enc.bin
>> 3a4803384f749d644ee1f1ca9dcb12fa  HcwMakoA.ROM
>> 305dba74bbe5905447add8883f3ecb68  ivtv-fw-dec.bin
>> ab75947ef1b086e26f9b08e628baa02e  ivtv-fw-enc.bin
>>
>> If yours don't match, you may want to try downloading an older
>> ivtv-fw-enc.bin/ivtv-fw-dec.bin and see if that helps.  (A check of
>> my dmesg output shows that I'm using revision 0x02040011, as
>> recommended by the warning you're getting.)
>>
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* Cory Papenfuss                                                        *
* Electrical Engineering candidate Ph.D. graduate student               *
* Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University                   *
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