<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Oct 7, 2012 at 9:20 PM, George Mari <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:george_mythusers@mari1938.org" target="_blank">george_mythusers@mari1938.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
On 10/04/2012 08:38 PM, George Mari wrote:<br>
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OK I've finally gotten around to replacing the bad capacitors on my<br>
PVR-350.<br>
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After about 24 hours, the good news is that the ghosting and flashing<br>
seem to be gone. I'm still keeping it well ventilated for a while<br>
longer, just to be sure.<br>
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The bad news is that the ivtv driver just decided to unload/re-load<br>
itself again.<br>
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So I guess I am back in the camp of suffering from the same problem as<br>
some others seem to be. I don't know if it's a combination of this<br>
kernel, and Fedora release (17) or what, but it's no fun having to<br>
baby-sit the backend and re-load the driver when it dies.<br>
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Ok, so after a recording last night, the flashing of the top 15% of the image has returned - this is after I replaced the bad capacitors. (No image ghosting, so that must have been related to the bad capacitors.)<br>
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My theory now is that after some instances where the driver get's reloaded, the backend is still able to use the device, but sometimes it gets in a weird state where the recorded image has this flashing along the top edge.<br>
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Most of time for me (9 times out of 10) the driver reloading meant that the card could no longer be used for recording. I've only seen the flashing 2 or 3 times since I've started having trouble about a month ago. Stopping the backend and unloading/reloading the ivtv driver fixed the problem, temporarily, until the kernel decided that the firmware had failed had needed to be reloaded.<br>
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Interestingly enough, the driver re-load never seemed to happen during a recording - always in-between recordings.<br>
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For now, I have configured one of the analog encoders on my HVR-2250 and hooked up my DirecTV box to it, taking the PVR-350 out of commission for now until I can resolve the problem.<div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"><br>
<br clear="all"></div></div></blockquote><div><br>So the question really becomes is it an <font color="black" face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica"><font color="black" face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica">ivtv driver or a myth problem, and how do we get a resolution? <br>
</font></font></div></div><br>-- <br>Tim Scholl<br>