Now that the ivtv 0.3.x driver has been promoted to "stable", I would
think that the PVR-500 might become a much more popular choice. I
know I was waiting for the kinks to be worked out before I tried using
a 500....<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 7/22/05, <b class="gmail_sendername">Joe Votour</b> <<a href="mailto:joevph@yahoo.com">joevph@yahoo.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Interestingly enough, I'm using 0.2.0 (rc3j). Maybe I<br>have one of the early PVR-500 cards, I'm not sure.<br>But, it works fine. Here's the dmesg output:<br><br>ivtv: ==================== START INIT IVTV<br>====================
<br>ivtv: version 0.2.0 (rc3j) loading<br>ivtv: Linux version: 2.6.11-1.27_FC3 686 REGPARM<br>4KSTACKS gcc-3.4<br>ivtv: In case of problems please include the debug<br>info<br>ivtv: between the START INIT IVTV and END INIT IVTV
<br>lines when<br>ivtv: mailing the ivtv-devel mailinglist.<br>ivtv: Autodetected WinTV PVR 250 card<br>ivtv: Found an iTVC15 based chip<br>ivtv: Unreasonably low latency timer, setting to 64<br>(was 32)<br>ivtv: XXX PCI device: 0x0755 vendor: 0x1039
<br>ivtv: i2c attach [client=tveeprom[0],ok]<br>ivtv: Tuner Type 8, Tuner formats 0x00001000, Radio:<br>yes, Model 0x009d4496, Revision 0x00000000<br>ivtv: NTSC tuner detected<br>ivtv: Radio detected<br>tuner: chip found at addr 0xc2 i2c-bus ivtv i2c driver
<br>#0<br>ivtv: i2c attach [client=(tuner unset),ok]<br>saa7115: starting probe for adapter ivtv i2c driver #0<br>(0x10005)<br>ivtv: i2c attach [client=saa7115[0],ok]<br>msp34xx: ivtv version<br>ivtv: i2c attach [client=MSP3445G-B8,ok]
<br>ivtv: Encoder revision: 0x02040024<br>ivtv: Encoder Firmware may be buggy, use version<br>0x02040011<br>ivtv: Decoder revision: 0x02020023<br>ivtv: Configuring WinTV PVR 250 card with 5 streams<br>ivtv: Create DMA stream 0 using 256 16384 byte buffers
<br> 4194304 kbytes total<br>ivtv: Registered v4l2 device, streamtype 0 minor 0<br>ivtv: Create DMA stream 1<br>ivtv: Registered v4l2 device, streamtype 1 minor 32<br>ivtv: Create stream 2 using 40 52224 byte buffers<br>2097152 kbytes total
<br>ivtv: Registered v4l2 device, streamtype 2 minor 224<br>ivtv: Create DMA stream 3 using 455 4608 byte buffers<br>2097152 kbytes total<br>ivtv: Registered v4l2 device, streamtype 3 minor 24<br>ivtv: Create stream 4<br>
ivtv: Registered v4l2 device, streamtype 4 minor 64<br>ivtv: Setting Tuner 8<br>tuner: type set to 8 (Temic NTSC (4036 FY5)) by ivtv<br>i2c driver #0<br>ivtv: Setting audio matrix to input 3, output 1<br>ivtv: Switching standard to NTSC.
<br>ivtv: ivtv_enc_thread: pid = 2011, itv = 0xe09c60a0<br>ivtv: Initialized WinTV PVR 250, card #0<br>ivtv: Autodetected WinTV PVR 150 card<br>ivtv: Found an iTVC16 based chip<br>ivtv: Unreasonably low latency timer, setting to 64
<br>(was 32)<br>ivtv: XXX PCI device: 0x0755 vendor: 0x1039<br>ivtv: i2c attach [client=tveeprom[1],ok]<br>tuner: chip found at addr 0xc2 i2c-bus ivtv i2c driver<br>#1<br>ivtv: i2c attach [client=(tuner unset),ok]<br>saa7115: starting probe for adapter ivtv i2c driver #1
<br>(0x10005)<br>ivtv: Tuner Type 57, Tuner formats 0x00001000, Radio:<br>yes, Model 0x00914652, Revision 0x00000001<br>ivtv: NTSC tuner detected<br>ivtv: Radio detected<br>ivtv: i2c attach [client=cx25840[0],ok]<br>ivtv: i2c attach [client=wm8775[0],ok]
<br>ivtv: Encoder revision: 0x02040024<br>ivtv: Encoder Firmware may be buggy, use version<br>0x02040011<br>ivtv: Configuring WinTV PVR 150 card with 5 streams<br>ivtv: Create DMA stream 0 using 256 16384 byte buffers<br>
4194304 kbytes total<br>ivtv: Registered v4l2 device, streamtype 0 minor 1<br>ivtv: Create DMA stream 1<br>ivtv: Registered v4l2 device, streamtype 1 minor 33<br>ivtv: Create stream 2 using 40 52224 byte buffers<br>2097152 kbytes total
<br>ivtv: Registered v4l2 device, streamtype 2 minor 225<br>ivtv: Create DMA stream 3 using 455 4608 byte buffers<br>2097152 kbytes total<br>ivtv: Registered v4l2 device, streamtype 3 minor 25<br>ivtv: Create stream 4<br>
ivtv: Registered v4l2 device, streamtype 4 minor 65<br>ivtv: Setting Tuner 57<br>tuner: type set to 57 (Philips FQ1236A MK4) by ivtv<br>i2c driver #1<br>ivtv: Switching standard to NTSC.<br>ivtv: Initialized WinTV PVR 150, card #1
<br>ivtv: Autodetected WinTV PVR 150 card<br>ivtv: Found an iTVC16 based chip<br>ivtv: ivtv_enc_thread: pid = 2155, itv = 0xe09da540<br>ivtv: Unreasonably low latency timer, setting to 64<br>(was 32)<br>ivtv: XXX PCI device: 0x0755 vendor: 0x1039
<br>ivtv: i2c attach [client=tveeprom[2],ok]<br>tuner: chip found at addr 0xc2 i2c-bus ivtv i2c driver<br>#2<br>ivtv: i2c attach [client=(tuner unset),ok]<br>saa7115: starting probe for adapter ivtv i2c driver #2<br>(0x10005)
<br>ivtv: i2c attach [client=cx25840[1],ok]<br>ivtv: i2c attach [client=wm8775[1],ok]<br>ivtv: Tuner Type 57, Tuner formats 0x00001000, Radio:<br>yes, Model 0x00914652, Revision 0x00000001<br>ivtv: NTSC tuner detected<br>
ivtv: Radio detected<br>ivtv: Encoder revision: 0x02040024<br>ivtv: Encoder Firmware may be buggy, use version<br>0x02040011<br>ivtv: Configuring WinTV PVR 150 card with 5 streams<br>ivtv: Create DMA stream 0 using 256 16384 byte buffers
<br> 4194304 kbytes total<br>ivtv: Registered v4l2 device, streamtype 0 minor 2<br>ivtv: Create DMA stream 1<br>ivtv: Registered v4l2 device, streamtype 1 minor 34<br>ivtv: Create stream 2 using 40 52224 byte buffers<br>2097152 kbytes total
<br>ivtv: Registered v4l2 device, streamtype 2 minor 226<br>ivtv: Create DMA stream 3 using 455 4608 byte buffers<br>2097152 kbytes total<br>ivtv: Registered v4l2 device, streamtype 3 minor 26<br>ivtv: Create stream 4<br>
ivtv: Registered v4l2 device, streamtype 4 minor 66<br>ivtv: Setting Tuner 57<br>tuner: type set to 57 (Philips FQ1236A MK4) by ivtv<br>i2c driver #2<br>ivtv: Switching standard to NTSC.<br>ivtv: Initialized WinTV PVR 150, card #2
<br>ivtv: ==================== END INIT IVTV<br>====================<br>ivtv: ivtv_enc_thread: pid = 2360, itv = 0xe09ee9e0<br>ivtv: i2c attach [client=Hauppauge IR,ok]<br><br>Note though, that I haven't tested out the radio yet.
<br>It's not something that I use (right now). The<br>PVR-500 is detected as two PVR-150 cards, which it<br>apparently should be.<br><br>-- Joe<br><br>--- Andrew Close <<a href="mailto:aclose@gmail.com">aclose@gmail.com
</a>> wrote:<br><br>> On 7/22/05, Joe Votour <<a href="mailto:joevph@yahoo.com">joevph@yahoo.com</a>> wrote:<br>> > I am using a setup with a PVR-500 and a PVR-250,<br>> and<br>> > it is working absolutely fine, with no problems at
<br>> > all.<br>> ><br>> > I am using ATrpms, stable, and followed the guide<br>> by<br>> > Jarod Wilson. All three tuners are recording just<br>> > fine.<br>> ><br>> > Here's the relevant portions of my
modprobe.conf:<br>> > ##########<br>> > alias char-major-61 lirc_i2c<br>> > # ivtv modules setup<br>> > alias char-major-81 videodev<br>> > alias char-major-81-0 ivtv<br>> > alias char-major-81-1 ivtv
<br>> > alias char-major-81-2 ivtv<br>> > options cx25840 no_black_magic=1<br>> > alias tveeprom tveeprom-ivtv<br>> > alias msp3400 msp3400-ivtv<br>> > alias tuner tuner-ivtv<br>> > install lirc_i2c /sbin/modprobe ivtv;
<br>> /sbin/modprobe<br>> > --ignore-install lirc_i2c<br>> > ##########<br>> <snip/><br>><br>> Joe,<br>><br>> what ivtv driver are you using just out of<br>> curiosity? i looked at<br>
> Jareds directions when i installed my 500 (even<br>> though i'm running<br>> KnoppMyth) and added some of his modprobe settings<br>> to my config.<br>> everything works fine, but i noticed on boot the<br>
> other day that the<br>> options cx25840 no_black_magic=1 errored out with<br>> some msg saying that<br>> the options tag was no longer valid and would be<br>> ignored. so i've<br>> removed that line with no noticable affects to my
<br>> system. so i'm just<br>> curious if my driver version is newer (3.6.y i<br>> think) than yours and<br>> that line is no longer valid; or what?<br>> i actually ended up removing quite a few of those<br>
> lines one at a time<br>> and seeing what happened. i'll try to post my<br>> config back to this<br>> thread tonight with a confirmed ivtv driver version.<br>><br>> thanks<br>> andy<br>> _______________________________________________
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