[mythtv-users] Tuner Unavailable

Mache Creeger mache at creeger.com
Thu Feb 28 06:45:19 UTC 2008


Here are some log excerpts from /var/log/mythtv/mythbackend

2008-02-27 22:40:47.945 mythbackend version: 0.20.20070821-1 www.mythtv.org
2008-02-27 22:40:47.945 Enabled verbose msgs: all
2008-02-27 22:40:47.946 AutoExpire: Found 0 recorders w/max rate of 0 MiB/min

2008-02-27 22:40:48.615 Encoder card 1 free space -1
2008-02-27 22:40:48.616 Encoder card 2 free space -1

# dmesg | grep ivtv
ivtv:  Start initialization, version 1.0.0
ivtv0: Initializing card #0
ivtv0: Autodetected Hauppauge card (cx23416 based)
ivtv0: Unreasonably low latency timer, setting to 64 (was 32)
ivtv0: Loaded v4l-cx2341x-enc.fw firmware (376836 bytes)
ivtv0: Encoder revision: 0x02060039
ivtv0: Autodetected WinTV PVR 500 (unit #1)
tuner 2-0043: chip found @ 0x86 (ivtv i2c driver #0)
tuner 2-0060: chip found @ 0xc0 (ivtv i2c driver #0)
tuner 2-0061: chip found @ 0xc2 (ivtv i2c driver #0)
cx25840 2-0044: cx25843-23 found @ 0x88 (ivtv i2c driver #0)
wm8775 2-001b: chip found @ 0x36 (ivtv i2c driver #0)
ivtv0: Registered device video0 for encoder MPEG (4 MB)
ivtv0: Registered device video32 for encoder YUV (2 MB)
ivtv0: Registered device vbi0 for encoder VBI (1 MB)
ivtv0: Registered device video24 for encoder PCM audio (1 MB)
ivtv0: Registered device radio0 for encoder radio
ivtv0: Initialized card #0: WinTV PVR 500 (unit #1)
ivtv1: Initializing card #1
ivtv1: Autodetected Hauppauge card (cx23416 based)
ivtv1: Unreasonably low latency timer, setting to 64 (was 32)
ivtv1: Loaded v4l-cx2341x-enc.fw firmware (376836 bytes)
ivtv1: Encoder revision: 0x02060039
tuner 3-0043: chip found @ 0x86 (ivtv i2c driver #1)
tuner 3-0061: chip found @ 0xc2 (ivtv i2c driver #1)
cx25840 3-0044: cx25843-23 found @ 0x88 (ivtv i2c driver #1)
wm8775 3-001b: chip found @ 0x36 (ivtv i2c driver #1)
ivtv1: Correcting tveeprom data: no radio present on second unit
ivtv1: Autodetected WinTV PVR 500 (unit #2)
ivtv1: Registered device video1 for encoder MPEG (4 MB)
ivtv1: Registered device video33 for encoder YUV (2 MB)
ivtv1: Registered device vbi1 for encoder VBI (1 MB)
ivtv1: Registered device video25 for encoder PCM audio (1 MB)
ivtv1: Initialized card #1: WinTV PVR 500 (unit #2)
ivtv:  End initialization

-- Mache

At 10:31 PM 2/27/2008, Mache Creeger wrote:
>I fixed my tuner problem for about one hour and taking the advice of 
>having all my machines running on the same mythtv rev I updated 
>everything to 0.20.2-175. As a result, I now have the same Tuner 1 
>is unavailable/Tuner 2 is unavailable on the Tuner Status page. I 
>shut down the SBE and FE to eliminate them as variables. I then 
>deleted the video sources and the capture cards using mythtv-setup 
>on the MBE, rebooted, and reinstalled the capture cards, video 
>sources, and inputs. Still nothing. This is exactly what I had 
>before but now I do not have video4linux to delete to solve the problem.
>
>I then went back to mythtv-setup, and re-deleted the capture cards 
>and video sources and then yum erased ivtv-firmware and ivtv-kmdl. 
>After rebooting, I reinstalled ivtv-firmware and ivtv-kmdl, 
>rebooted, and then with mythtv-setup re-configured the WinTV PVR 
>500, the video sources, and the inputs. Still nothing.
>
>The WinTV PVR 500 loads fine in dmesg with no errors, but when 
>mythbackend goes to initialize the recorder it comes back with none 
>found. Turning on --verbose all, does not yield any enlightening information.
>
>Can someone tell what type of logging I can turn on the resolve this problem?
>
>-- Mache
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