Thank you Scott for providing that "cardtype=6" tidbit. I had
resigned myself to having to do a power cycle everytime I wanted to
reboot, but now I can reboot without groping around in awkwardly tight
spaces.<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 12/18/05, <b class="gmail_sendername">Scott Alfter</b> <<a href="mailto:mythtv@salfter.dyndns.org">mythtv@salfter.dyndns.org</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;">
Wylie Swanson top-posted (grr):<br>>On 10/31/05, * Rudy Zijlstra* <<a href="mailto:mythtv@edsons.demon.nl">mythtv@edsons.demon.nl</a><br>><mailto:<a href="mailto:mythtv@edsons.demon.nl">mythtv@edsons.demon.nl</a>
>> wrote:<br>>>Shawn wrote:<br>>>>John Cartwright wrote:<br>>>>>I've got a PVR-150. Sometimes for whatever reason mine gets<br>>>>>recognized as a PVR-250 like your dmesg output says in which case I
<br>>>>>lose video.<br>>>><br>>>>This has happened to me also, and performing a cold boot (turning the<br>>>>machine off and unplugging it for 30 seconds) usually does the trick.<br>
>><br>>>No, With the HW retaining settings until all kinds of elcos and such<br>>>have fully lost power....<br>>>Combined with it being very difficult to fully reset the HW (result of<br>>>HW design).
<br>><br>> Unfortunately, cold power cycle has not seemed to do the trick.<br><br>Try including "options ivtv cardtype=6" im /etc/modules.conf (or wherever your<br>distro wants module options...for Gentoo, it's /etc/modules.d/ivtv). I
<br>recently ran into this problem with a PVR-150 in a box I'm setting up as a<br>surveillance DVR. A warm reboot would cause the card to be detected as a<br>PVR-250, which kept it from working. Forcing the card type should get it
<br>working for you.<br><br>If you have multiple capture cards controlled by ivtv, you'll want to set the<br>correct card type for each. Determine which card is in which PCI slot and pass<br>them to the kernel module in slot-number order. For instance, if you have a
<br>PVR-250 in slot 1 and a PVR-150 in slot 2, you would want to use "options ivtv<br>cardtype=1,6" to set up both cards. Use "modinfo ivtv" to get the list of<br>valid card types (plus other options you can tweak).
<br><br>(BTW, top-posting is rude. You shouldn't do that.)<br><br> _/_<br> / v \ Scott Alfter<br>(IIGS( <a href="http://alfter.us/">http://alfter.us/</a> Top-posting!<br> \_^_/
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