[mythtv-users] Can't get PVR 150 to tune : "tuner type not set"?

Brian Wood beww at beww.org
Sat May 27 21:56:36 UTC 2006



On May 27, 2006, at 2:58 PM, Scott Johnson wrote:

>
> After giving up on my PVR 500 card because only the second (/dev/ 
> video1)
> tuner worked I decided to simplify the problem and purchase a PVR 150
> today.  Maybe I could buy my way out of the problem and get on with  
> MythTV.
>
> Instead I have a new problem.  There is no tuned signal on the card.
> I've tested the incoming coax cable signal via a TV and my PVR 500  
> used
> to see channels.
> All the test captures I do are completely black unless I use
> # /usr/bin/ivtvctrl -p 0
> in which case I at least get some static. Any other -p option  
> yields all
> black.
>
> But then the command below used to tell me that there was a signal
> present when I was using the PVR 500. # /usr/bin/ivtv-tune -c3 -tus- 
> cable
> /dev/video0: 61.250 MHz
>
> So I tried the channel scan in mythsetup and it found no channels.
>
> So I did the firmware process from the ivtv website.  My log shows  
> that
> there are no firmware errors reported so that's probably fine.
>
> In short, I'm stuck.  Any help would restore my hopes for this  
> process.
> The ivtv driver is telling me that the tuner type is not set.   
> Googling
> that found that some people suggested the tuner was not supported.
> Hopefully that is not true and I just missed something.
>
> Random thoughts...
> I tried two cold starts.
> I tried doing /sbin/modprobe ivtv
> I'm currently using the /etc/modprobe.conf lines from the Myth(TV) 
> ology
> howto but the ivtv page says they are not needed.
>
> Scott
>
> I'm having some trouble with my email client.  Please forgive if this
> posts twice.
>
> ivtv:  ==================== START INIT IVTV ====================
> ivtv:  version 0.6.2 (development snapshot compiled on Mon May  8
> 07:44:41 2006) loading
> ivtv:  Linux version: 2.6.16-1.2108_FC4 686 REGPARM 4KSTACKS gcc-4.0
> ivtv:  In case of problems please include the debug info between
> ivtv:  the START INIT IVTV and END INIT IVTV lines, along with
> ivtv:  any module options, when mailing the ivtv-users mailinglist.
> forcedeth.c: Reverse Engineered nForce ethernet driver. Version 0.49.
> ivtv0: Autodetected Hauppauge WinTV PVR-150 card (cx23416 based)
> ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [APC3] enabled at IRQ 18
> ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:06:06.0[A] -> Link [APC3] -> GSI 18 (level,
> low) -> IRQ 66
> ivtv0: Unreasonably low latency timer, setting to 64 (was 32)
> tveeprom 0-0050: Hauppauge model 26132, rev F0B2, serial# 9329023
> tveeprom 0-0050: tuner model is TCL M2523_5N_E (idx 112, type 4)
> tveeprom 0-0050: TV standards NTSC(M) (eeprom 0x08)
> tveeprom 0-0050: audio processor is CX25841 (idx 35)
> tveeprom 0-0050: decoder processor is CX25841 (idx 28)
> tveeprom 0-0050: has no radio, has IR remote
> tuner 0-0061: chip found @ 0xc2 (ivtv i2c driver #0)
> cx25840 0-0044: cx25841-23 found @ 0x88 (ivtv i2c driver #0)
> cx25840 0-0044: loaded v4l-cx25840.fw firmware (16382 bytes)
> wm8775 0-001b: chip found @ 0x36 (ivtv i2c driver #0)
> ivtv0: loaded v4l-cx2341x-enc.fw firmware (262144 bytes)
> ivtv0: Encoder revision: 0x02050032
> ivtv0: Allocate DMA encoder MPEG stream: 128 x 32768 buffers  
> (4096KB total)
> ivtv0: Allocate DMA encoder YUV stream: 194 x 10800 buffers (2048KB  
> total)
> ivtv0: Allocate DMA encoder VBI stream: 120 x 17472 buffers (2048KB  
> total)
> ivtv0: Allocate DMA encoder PCM audio stream: 455 x 4608 buffers  
> (2048KB
> total)
> tuner 0-0061: tuner type not set
> tuner 0-0061: tuner type not set
> ivtv0: Initialized Hauppauge WinTV PVR-150, card #0
> ivtv:  ====================  END INIT IVTV  ====================


Since your tuner is not being recognized you should first go over to  
the IVTV site and see if there is any information on what is likely a  
new tuner type, in other words you have joined the Hauppauge Tuner-of- 
the-Month Club.

Often you can set the type to a known one which is close enough to  
yours to work, the IVTV site may have info on which type to try with  
your particular tuner.

If the IVTV site has no specific info, I would try type 50 first, as  
this has apparently worked with some of the new tuners out there. If  
this does not work you will have to use trial-and-error to see of any  
of the other known types will work.

Not great news I know, but it could be worse.


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