[mythtv-users] Flakey HD-PVR

Richard Ferrara sicrb25 at bigpond.net.au
Fri Apr 13 03:50:51 UTC 2012


Anyway.... back on topic.

Choosing different USB ports on my motherboard has different effects on how the HD-PVR will operate.....

I think its a lower level issue... Might just rebuild this backend with some new hardware, its getting a bit dated anyway....

root at mythtv:~# lshw
mythtv                    
   description: Computer
   product: ()
   width: 32 bits
   capabilities: smbios-2.4 dmi-2.4 smp-1.4 smp
   configuration: boot=normal cpus=1 uuid=9977DCD6-91C6-11DC-9635-00E018889BFA
 *-core
      description: Motherboard
      product: DG33TL
      vendor: Intel Corporation
      physical id: 0
      version: AAD89517-803
      serial: BQTL7460023Q
      slot: Base Board Chassis Location
    *-cpu
         description: CPU
         product: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU     E6550  @ 2.33GHz
         vendor: Intel Corp.
         physical id: 0
         bus info: cpu at 0
         version: 6.15.11
         serial: 0000-06FB-0000-0000-0000-0000
         slot: J1PR
         size: 1998MHz
         capacity: 4GHz
         width: 64 bits
         clock: 333MHz
         capabilities: boot fpu fpu_exception wp vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe nx x86-64 constant_tsc arch_perfmon pebs bts aperfmperf pni dtes64 monitor ds_cpl vmx smx est tm2 ssse3 cx16 xtpr pdcm lahf_lm tpr_shadow vnmi flexpriority cpufreq
         configuration: id=0
       *-cache:0
            description: L2 cache
            physical id: 1
            slot: Unknown
            size: 4MiB
            capacity: 4MiB
            capabilities: asynchronous internal write-back unified
       *-cache:1
            description: L1 cache
            physical id: 3
            slot: Unknown
            size: 32KiB
            capacity: 32KiB
            capabilities: asynchronous internal write-back data
       *-logicalcpu:0
            description: Logical CPU
            physical id: 0.1
            width: 64 bits
            capabilities: logical
       *-logicalcpu:1
            description: Logical CPU
            physical id: 0.2
            width: 64 bits
            capabilities: logical
    *-cache
         description: L1 cache
         physical id: 2
         slot: Unknown
         size: 32KiB
         capacity: 32KiB
         capabilities: asynchronous internal write-back instruction
    *-firmware
         description: BIOS
         vendor: Intel Corp.
         physical id: 4
         version: DPP3510J.86A.0293.2007.1002.1519
         date: 10/02/2007
         size: 64KiB
         capacity: 960KiB
         capabilities: pci upgrade shadowing cdboot bootselect edd int9keyboard int14serial int17printer int10video acpi usb zipboot biosbootspecification netboot
    *-memory
         description: System Memory
         physical id: 14
         slot: System board or motherboard
         size: 1GiB
       *-bank:0
            description: DIMM DDR2 Synchronous 667 MHz (1.5 ns)
            product: 0x3132385836344B2D36374500505343000000
            vendor: 0x0000000000000000
            physical id: 0
            serial: 0x060830C5
            slot: J6H1
            size: 1GiB
            width: 64 bits
            clock: 667MHz (1.5ns)
       *-bank:1
            description: DIMM DDR2 [empty]
            product: NO DIMM
            vendor: NO DIMM
            physical id: 1
            serial: NO DIMM
            slot: J6H2
       *-bank:2
            description: DIMM DDR2 [empty]
            product: NO DIMM
            vendor: NO DIMM
            physical id: 2
            serial: NO DIMM
            slot: J6J1
       *-bank:3
            description: DIMM DDR2 [empty]
            product: NO DIMM
            vendor: NO DIMM
            physical id: 3
            serial: NO DIMM
            slot: J6J2
    *-pci
         description: Host bridge
         product: 82G33/G31/P35/P31 Express DRAM Controller
         vendor: Intel Corporation
         physical id: 100
         bus info: pci at 0000:00:00.0
         version: 02
         width: 32 bits
         clock: 33MHz
         configuration: driver=agpgart-intel
         resources: irq:0
       *-display:0
            description: VGA compatible controller
            product: 82G33/G31 Express Integrated Graphics Controller
            vendor: Intel Corporation
            physical id: 2
            bus info: pci at 0000:00:02.0
            version: 02
            width: 32 bits
            clock: 33MHz
            capabilities: msi pm vga_controller bus_master cap_list rom
            configuration: driver=i915 latency=0
            resources: irq:48 memory:50380000-503fffff ioport:2430(size=8) memory:40000000-4fffffff memory:50200000-502fffff
       *-display:1 UNCLAIMED
            description: Display controller
            product: 82G33/G31 Express Integrated Graphics Controller
            vendor: Intel Corporation
            physical id: 2.1
            bus info: pci at 0000:00:02.1
            version: 02
            width: 32 bits
            clock: 33MHz
            capabilities: pm bus_master cap_list
            configuration: latency=0
            resources: memory:50300000-5037ffff
       *-communication
            description: Communication controller
            product: 82G33/G31/P35/P31 Express MEI Controller
            vendor: Intel Corporation
            physical id: 3
            bus info: pci at 0000:00:03.0
            version: 02
            width: 64 bits
            clock: 33MHz
            capabilities: pm msi bus_master cap_list
            configuration: driver=mei latency=0
            resources: irq:47 memory:50426100-5042610f
       *-network
            description: Ethernet interface
            product: 82566DC-2 Gigabit Network Connection
            vendor: Intel Corporation
            physical id: 19
            bus info: pci at 0000:00:19.0
            logical name: eth0
            version: 02
            serial: 00:1c:c0:1f:8e:52
            size: 1Gbit/s
            capacity: 1Gbit/s
            width: 32 bits
            clock: 33MHz
            capabilities: pm msi bus_master cap_list ethernet physical tp 10bt 10bt-fd 100bt 100bt-fd 1000bt-fd autonegotiation
            configuration: autonegotiation=on broadcast=yes driver=e1000e driverversion=1.5.1-k duplex=full firmware=1.3-0 latency=0 link=yes multicast=yes port=twisted pair speed=1Gbit/s
            resources: irq:46 memory:50400000-5041ffff memory:50424000-50424fff ioport:2400(size=32)
       *-usb:0
            description: USB controller
            product: 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #4
            vendor: Intel Corporation
            physical id: 1a
            bus info: pci at 0000:00:1a.0
            version: 02
            width: 32 bits
            clock: 33MHz
            capabilities: uhci bus_master cap_list
            configuration: driver=uhci_hcd latency=0
            resources: irq:18 ioport:20e0(size=32)
       *-usb:1
            description: USB controller
            product: 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #5
            vendor: Intel Corporation
            physical id: 1a.1
            bus info: pci at 0000:00:1a.1
            version: 02
            width: 32 bits
            clock: 33MHz
            capabilities: uhci bus_master cap_list
            configuration: driver=uhci_hcd latency=0
            resources: irq:21 ioport:20c0(size=32)
       *-usb:2
            description: USB controller
            product: 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #6
            vendor: Intel Corporation
            physical id: 1a.2
            bus info: pci at 0000:00:1a.2
            version: 02
            width: 32 bits
            clock: 33MHz
            capabilities: uhci bus_master cap_list
            configuration: driver=uhci_hcd latency=0
            resources: irq:17 ioport:20a0(size=32)
       *-usb:3
            description: USB controller
            product: 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #2
            vendor: Intel Corporation
            physical id: 1a.7
            bus info: pci at 0000:00:1a.7
            version: 02
            width: 32 bits
            clock: 33MHz
            capabilities: pm debug ehci bus_master cap_list
            configuration: driver=ehci_hcd latency=0
            resources: irq:17 memory:50425c00-50425fff
       *-multimedia
            description: Audio device
            product: 82801I (ICH9 Family) HD Audio Controller
            vendor: Intel Corporation
            physical id: 1b
            bus info: pci at 0000:00:1b.0
            version: 02
            width: 64 bits
            clock: 33MHz
            capabilities: pm msi pciexpress bus_master cap_list
            configuration: driver=snd_hda_intel latency=0
            resources: irq:49 memory:50420000-50423fff
       *-pci:0
            description: PCI bridge
            product: 82801I (ICH9 Family) PCI Express Port 1
            vendor: Intel Corporation
            physical id: 1c
            bus info: pci at 0000:00:1c.0
            version: 02
            width: 32 bits
            clock: 33MHz
            capabilities: pci pciexpress msi pm normal_decode bus_master cap_list
            configuration: driver=pcieport
            resources: irq:40 ioport:6000(size=4096) memory:50500000-505fffff ioport:51100000(size=2097152)
       *-pci:1
            description: PCI bridge
            product: 82801I (ICH9 Family) PCI Express Port 2
            vendor: Intel Corporation
            physical id: 1c.1
            bus info: pci at 0000:00:1c.1
            version: 02
            width: 32 bits
            clock: 33MHz
            capabilities: pci pciexpress msi pm normal_decode bus_master cap_list
            configuration: driver=pcieport
            resources: irq:41 ioport:5000(size=4096) memory:50600000-506fffff ioport:50f00000(size=2097152)
       *-pci:2
            description: PCI bridge
            product: 82801I (ICH9 Family) PCI Express Port 3
            vendor: Intel Corporation
            physical id: 1c.2
            bus info: pci at 0000:00:1c.2
            version: 02
            width: 32 bits
            clock: 33MHz
            capabilities: pci pciexpress msi pm normal_decode bus_master cap_list
            configuration: driver=pcieport
            resources: irq:42 ioport:1000(size=4096) memory:50100000-501fffff ioport:50d00000(size=2097152)
          *-ide
               description: IDE interface
               product: 88SE6101/6102 single-port PATA133 interface
               vendor: Marvell Technology Group Ltd.
               physical id: 0
               bus info: pci at 0000:03:00.0
               logical name: scsi7
               version: b2
               width: 32 bits
               clock: 33MHz
               capabilities: ide pm msi pciexpress bus_master cap_list emulated
               configuration: driver=pata_marvell latency=0
               resources: irq:18 ioport:1018(size=8) ioport:1024(size=4) ioport:1010(size=8) ioport:1020(size=4) ioport:1000(size=16) memory:50100000-501001ff
             *-disk
                  description: ATA Disk
                  product: ST3120026A
                  vendor: Seagate
                  physical id: 0.0.0
                  bus info: scsi at 7:0.0.0
                  logical name: /dev/sda
                  version: 8.01
                  serial: 5JT4GQ8J
                  size: 111GiB (120GB)
                  capabilities: partitioned partitioned:dos
                  configuration: ansiversion=5 signature=000d480c
                *-volume:0
                     description: EXT4 volume
                     vendor: Linux
                     physical id: 1
                     bus info: scsi at 7:0.0.0,1
                     logical name: /dev/sda1
                     logical name: /
                     version: 1.0
                     serial: 53fd63ca-6492-4bc6-a8fd-884f8feeac9d
                     size: 110GiB
                     capacity: 110GiB
                     capabilities: primary bootable journaled extended_attributes large_files huge_files dir_nlink recover extents ext4 ext2 initialized
                     configuration: created=2012-04-12 21:35:05 filesystem=ext4 lastmountpoint=/ modified=2012-04-12 21:47:58 mount.fstype=ext4 mount.options=rw,relatime,errors=remount-ro,user_xattr,barrier=1,data=ordered mounted=2012-04-12 23:07:48 state=mounted
                *-volume:1
                     description: Extended partition
                     physical id: 2
                     bus info: scsi at 7:0.0.0,2
                     logical name: /dev/sda2
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                     capacity: 1003MiB
                     capabilities: primary extended partitioned partitioned:extended
                   *-logicalvolume
                        description: Linux swap / Solaris partition
                        physical id: 5
                        logical name: /dev/sda5
                        capacity: 1003MiB
                        capabilities: nofs
       *-pci:3
            description: PCI bridge
            product: 82801I (ICH9 Family) PCI Express Port 4
            vendor: Intel Corporation
            physical id: 1c.3
            bus info: pci at 0000:00:1c.3
            version: 02
            width: 32 bits
            clock: 33MHz
            capabilities: pci pciexpress msi pm normal_decode bus_master cap_list
            configuration: driver=pcieport
            resources: irq:43 ioport:4000(size=4096) memory:50700000-507fffff ioport:50b00000(size=2097152)
       *-pci:4
            description: PCI bridge
            product: 82801I (ICH9 Family) PCI Express Port 5
            vendor: Intel Corporation
            physical id: 1c.4
            bus info: pci at 0000:00:1c.4
            version: 02
            width: 32 bits
            clock: 33MHz
            capabilities: pci pciexpress msi pm normal_decode bus_master cap_list
            configuration: driver=pcieport
            resources: irq:44 ioport:3000(size=4096) memory:50800000-508fffff ioport:50900000(size=2097152)
       *-usb:4
            description: USB controller
            product: 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #1
            vendor: Intel Corporation
            physical id: 1d
            bus info: pci at 0000:00:1d.0
            version: 02
            width: 32 bits
            clock: 33MHz
            capabilities: uhci bus_master cap_list
            configuration: driver=uhci_hcd latency=0
            resources: irq:23 ioport:2080(size=32)
       *-usb:5
            description: USB controller
            product: 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #2
            vendor: Intel Corporation
            physical id: 1d.1
            bus info: pci at 0000:00:1d.1
            version: 02
            width: 32 bits
            clock: 33MHz
            capabilities: uhci bus_master cap_list
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            resources: irq:19 ioport:2060(size=32)
       *-usb:6
            description: USB controller
            product: 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #3
            vendor: Intel Corporation
            physical id: 1d.2
            bus info: pci at 0000:00:1d.2
            version: 02
            width: 32 bits
            clock: 33MHz
            capabilities: uhci bus_master cap_list
            configuration: driver=uhci_hcd latency=0
            resources: irq:18 ioport:2040(size=32)
       *-usb:7
            description: USB controller
            product: 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #1
            vendor: Intel Corporation
            physical id: 1d.7
            bus info: pci at 0000:00:1d.7
            version: 02
            width: 32 bits
            clock: 33MHz
            capabilities: pm debug ehci bus_master cap_list
            configuration: driver=ehci_hcd latency=0
            resources: irq:23 memory:50425800-50425bff
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            vendor: Intel Corporation
            physical id: 1e
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            version: 92
            width: 32 bits
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            resources: memory:50000000-500fffff
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               bus info: pci at 0000:06:00.0
               logical name: wlan0
               version: 01
               serial: 00:11:95:87:36:3c
               width: 32 bits
               clock: 33MHz
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               resources: irq:21 memory:50000000-5000ffff
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               vendor: LSI Corporation
               physical id: 3
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               version: 70
               width: 32 bits
               clock: 33MHz
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               resources: irq:19 memory:50010000-50010fff
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            vendor: Intel Corporation
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            width: 32 bits
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               logical name: /dev/cdrw
               logical name: /dev/dvd
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            version: 02
            width: 64 bits
            clock: 33MHz
            configuration: latency=0
            resources: memory:50426000-504260ff ioport:2000(size=32)
    *-scsi
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         bus info: usb at 1:2
         logical name: scsi6
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            product: STORAGE DEVICE
            vendor: Generic
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            bus info: scsi at 6:0.0.0
            logical name: /dev/sdb
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            capabilities: removable
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               logical name: /dev/sdb
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            product: STORAGE DEVICE
            vendor: Generic
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            description: SCSI Disk
            product: STORAGE DEVICE
            vendor: Generic
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            bus info: scsi at 6:0.0.2
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            capabilities: removable
          *-medium
               physical id: 0
               logical name: /dev/sdd
       *-disk:3
            description: SCSI Disk
            product: STORAGE DEVICE
            vendor: Generic
            physical id: 0.0.3
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            logical name: /dev/sde
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On 13/04/2012, at 1:10 PM, Gary Buhrmaster wrote:

> On Fri, Apr 13, 2012 at 01:24, R. G. Newbury <newbury at mandamus.org> wrote:
> ....
>> And before jumping in with both feet you might profitably take to reading
>> the post first.
> 
> I did.  The original post was from an individual in a country whose
> satellite boxes are reported to be HDMI with HDCP.  Any solution
> being offered for accessing that content (that would work) would
> require breaking of the HDCP chain, discussion of which, per
> the FAQ is "off limits" on this list (regardless of whether it is
> legal in other parts of the world) in order to protect the project
> (the reasoning is stated clearly in the referenced wiki page).
> 
> Sometimes you are forced to make bad choices to avoid worse
> outcomes.
> 
> Now, if what you are saying is that Jacek was proposing a
> solution that would not work, I do sincerely apologize to him
> for jumping to the conclusion he was referring to something
> that could work (and could not be discussed) rather than
> something that does not work (and can be discussed).
> 
> Gary
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