[mythtv-users] Pvr-350 problem, coming to you as last resort, sort of.

Eric Bell ebell at polymorf.com
Fri Jan 5 19:42:57 UTC 2007


 
 I would appreciate if you with more experience can help me, after 3 weeks
of reinstalls, study and practice the same basic problem occurs over and
over - upon 'modprobe ivtv' the "Invalid EEPROM" message appears and no
device e.g. /dev/video0 appears so I am going nowhere. I am posting this as
a last resort since I am missing something. It has occurred to me my
card/machine is facocked but perhaps it is newbie operator error. BTW, the
machine is a brand spanking new barebones - Sempron 1.8GHz cpu, 512GB ram,
250GB PATA drive.
 
I have tried the latest 
  KnoppMyth,
  FC5 and MythTv,
  FC6 and MythTV,
  and last night, MythDora
 
I tried 'newi2c' in /etc/modprobe.conf, rebuilding the ivtv drivers and
more. I just cannot get over this. Every other aspect of the machine and
Linux seems to work - just won't work with the PVR-350. The firmware (.enc
and .dec etc. files) appear to be where they should be. I have read what I
could from GossemerThreads, ivtvdrivers.org and the various home sites for
the products listed above. I have read man pages about processes and
mechanics - great learning experience certainly (getting ivtv to finally
build after build failures was neat) and I am happy to do so but after a
while - Ugh!
 
The data I am enclosing is for MythDora built on FC5.
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Fedore kernel version:  2.6.18-1.2257.fc5smp 

----- modprobe.conf -----

alias eth0 8139too 
alias char-major-61 lirc_i2c 
alias scsi_hostadapter sata_via 
alias snd-card-0 snd-via82xx 
options snd-card-0 index=0 
options snd-via82xx index=0 
remove snd-via82xx { /usr/sbin/alsactl store 0 >/dev/null 2>&1 || : ; };
/sbin/modprobe -r --ignore-remove snd-via82xx 
#IVTV PVR-350 TVOUT 
alias char-major-81-0 ivtv 
install ivtv /sbin/modprobe --ignore-install ivtv; /sbin/modprobe ivtv-fb 
#LIRC 
install lirc_i2c /sbin/modprobe ivtv; /sbin/modprobe --ignore-install
lirc_i2c 
 
----- /var/log/messages -----
 4 22:05:55 mythtv kernel: ivtv:  ==================== START INIT IVTV
====================
Jan  4 22:05:55 mythtv kernel: ivtv:  version 0.8.2 (tagged release) loading
Jan  4 22:05:55 mythtv kernel: ivtv:  Linux version: 2.6.18-1.2257.fc5smp
SMP mod_unload 686 REGPARM 4KSTACKS gcc-4.1
Jan  4 22:05:55 mythtv kernel: ivtv:  In case of problems please include the
debug info between
Jan  4 22:05:55 mythtv kernel: ivtv:  the START INIT IVTV and END INIT IVTV
lines, along with
Jan  4 22:05:55 mythtv kernel: ivtv:  any module options, when mailing the
ivtv-users mailinglist.
Jan  4 22:05:55 mythtv kernel: ivtv0: Autodetected Hauppauge card (cx23415
based)
Jan  4 22:05:56 mythtv kernel: ivtv0: loaded v4l-cx2341x-enc.fw firmware
(262144 bytes)
Jan  4 22:05:56 mythtv kernel: ivtv0: loaded v4l-cx2341x-dec.fw firmware
(262144 bytes)
Jan  4 22:05:56 mythtv kernel: tveeprom 1-0050: Huh, no eeprom present
(err=-121)?
Jan  4 22:05:56 mythtv kernel: tveeprom 1-0050: Encountered bad packet
header [e0]. Corrupt or not a Hauppauge eeprom.
Jan  4 22:05:56 mythtv kernel: ivtv0: Invalid EEPROM
Jan  4 22:05:56 mythtv kernel: ivtv0 warning: Encoder mailbox not found
Jan  4 22:05:56 mythtv kernel: ivtv0 warning: Decoder mailbox not found
Jan  4 22:05:56 mythtv kernel: ivtv0: Error locating firmware.
Jan  4 22:05:56 mythtv kernel: ivtv0: Error -12 on initialization
Jan  4 22:05:56 mythtv kernel: ivtv: probe of 0000:00:0b.0 failed with error
-12
Jan  4 22:05:56 mythtv kernel: ivtv:  ====================  END INIT IVTV  
Thank you in advance,
 
Eric Bell
 
 
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