[mythtv-users] FW load problem after replacing Hauppauge cards

Devin Heitmueller dheitmueller at kernellabs.com
Tue Nov 26 17:19:45 UTC 2013


On Tue, Nov 26, 2013 at 12:16 PM, Jay Ashworth <jra at baylink.com> wrote:
> I've replaced a questionable -150 and -500 (in ascending PCI slots)
> with a replacement pair of semi-identical used cards, and I'm having FW
> loading error messages, and my third tuner shows up in tuner status as
> Error.
>
> syslog went from:
>
> 00:33:49 duckling kernel: [   17.360432] ivtv: End initialization
> 00:33:49 duckling kernel: [   17.494765] ivtv0: Encoder revision: 0x02060039
> 00:33:49 duckling kernel: [   17.494910] ivtv0: Decoder revision: 0x02020023
> 00:33:49 duckling kernel: [   17.894342] ivtv1: Loaded v4l-cx2341x-enc.fw firmware (376836 bytes)
> 00:33:49 duckling kernel: [   18.009594] ivtv2: Loaded v4l-cx2341x-enc.fw firmware (376836 bytes)
> 00:33:49 duckling kernel: [   18.092225] ivtv1: Encoder revision: 0x02060039
> 00:33:49 duckling kernel: [   18.207719] ivtv2: Encoder revision: 0x02060039
> 00:33:49 duckling kernel: [   21.817143] cx25840 3-0044: loaded v4l-cx25840.fw firmware (16382 bytes)
> 00:33:49 duckling kernel: [   22.080941] cx25840 2-0044: loaded v4l-cx25840.fw firmware (16382 bytes)
>
> to
>
> 11:47:28 duckling kernel: [   26.958903] ivtv: End initialization
> 11:47:28 duckling kernel: [   27.373078] ivtv0: Loaded v4l-cx2341x-enc.fw firmware (376836 bytes)
>
> 11:47:28 duckling kernel: [   27.570919] ivtv0: Encoder revision: 0x02060039
> 11:47:28 duckling kernel: [   27.635887] ivtv1: Loaded v4l-cx2341x-enc.fw firmware (376836 bytes)
> 11:47:28 duckling kernel: [   27.637878] ivtv2: Loaded v4l-cx2341x-enc.fw firmware (376836 bytes)
> 11:47:28 duckling kernel: [   27.834030] ivtv2: Encoder revision: 0x02060039
> 11:47:28 duckling kernel: [   27.834068] ivtv1: Encoder revision: 0x02060039
> 11:47:28 duckling kernel: [   31.620579] cx25840 1-0044: loaded v4l-cx25840.fw firmware (16382 bytes)
> 11:47:28 duckling kernel: [   31.719409] cx25840 3-0044: loaded v4l-cx25840.fw firmware (16382 bytes)
> 11:47:28 duckling kernel: [   31.878709] cx25840 2-0044: firmware v4l-cx25840.fw load failed
> 11

It probably makes sense as a test to yank one of the cards out and
reboot, so you can see which of the tuners failed to load firmware.
This will also help ascertain if it's some sort of race condition
related to the tuners being initialized in parallel.

Devin

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Devin J. Heitmueller - Kernel Labs
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