[mythtv-users] PVR-250 stability

[Donald Saltarelli]

Hey guys- I'm having the same problem. I don't think it's the
motherboard. It's an Intel board in a Dell Dimension 4550, BIOS rev.
A06. cat /proc/interrupts:

           CPU0
  0:    3291340          XT-PIC  timer
  1:       2287          XT-PIC  keyboard
  2:          0          XT-PIC  cascade
  3:          0          XT-PIC  ivtv: iTVC15/16 mpg2 encoder chip
  8:          2          XT-PIC  rtc
 11:     290382          XT-PIC  ide2, eth0, Ensoniq AudioPCI, nvidia
 12:     108636          XT-PIC  PS/2 Mouse
 14:      16034          XT-PIC  ide0
 15:         38          XT-PIC  ide1
NMI:          0
ERR:          0

This is my /etc/modules.d/ivtv: (Gentoo)

alias char-major-81     videodev
alias char-major-81-0   ivtv
alias char-major-61 lirc_i2c
options ivtv debug=0
options tuner type=2
options msp3400 once=1 simple=1
add below ivtv msp3400 saa7115 tuner
add above ivtv lirc_dev lirc_i2c

Spewing at syslog is a known issue in the FAQ, but i have debug=0, so
apparently it's not respecting that?

Some things during boot and in dmesg that make me wonder are:

- where it says "PCI: Sharing IRQ 3 with 00:1f.3". this doesn't jive
with /proc/interrupts
- the fact that i don't know if my tuner is really type=2 or not
- i'm using the bttv 0.7.107 that comes with 2.4.22 and not 0.9.11
that's patched for i2c v 2.8.0 (i'm using 2.8.1 to get lirc 0.70pre2 to
recognize the hauppage IR)
- ivtv/bttv complains during boot presumable at ivtv module insertion
that the device (bttv) isn't there and that the problem may be due to
module parameters.
- "Linux video capture interface: v1.00" why not v2.00? pretty sure i
patched my kernel for v4l2...

>From dmesg:

i2c-core.o: i2c core module version 2.8.1 (20031005)
Linux video capture interface: v1.00
ivtv: SGarray_size = 340, DSGarray_size = 16
ivtv: Found an iTVC16 based chip
PCI: Found IRQ 3 for device 02:0c.0
PCI: Sharing IRQ 3 with 00:1f.3
tuner: chip found @ 0xc2
tuner(bttv): type forced to 2 (Philips NTSC (FI1236,FM1236 and
compatibles)) [insmod]
saa7114.c: starting probe for adapter ivtv i2c driver #0 (0x10005)
saa7114.c: detecting saa7114 client on address 0x42
saa7115.c: writing init values
status: (1E) 0x48, (1F) 0xc0
msp34xx: init: chip=MSP3435G-B6, has NICAM support
msp3410: daemon started
ivtv: Encoder revision: 0x02040011
ivtv: Registered v4l2 device, minor 0
ivtv: Registered v4l2 device, minor 32
ivtv: Registered v4l2 device, minor 224
lirc_dev: IR Remote Control driver registered, at major 61
bttv: driver version 0.7.107 loaded
bttv: using 4 buffers with 2080k (8320k total) for capture
bttv: Host bridge is Intel Corp. 82845G/GL [Brookdale-G] Chipset Host
Bridge
lirc_i2c: chip found @ 0x18 (Hauppauge IR)
lirc_dev: lirc_register_plugin:sample_rate: 10

Bus mastering is good, even though it's in the bottom slot. lspci -v:

02:0c.0 Multimedia video controller: Internext Compression Inc: Unknown
device 0016 (rev 01)
        Subsystem: Hauppauge computer works Inc.: Unknown device 4009
        Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 3
        Memory at e8000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=64M]
        Capabilities: [44] Power Management version 2

What are your versions, module options, lspci, dmesg, etc?

Thanks,

Donald Saltarelli

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