[mythtv-users] PVR 350 + Myth 0.14 + ivtv 0.1.9

[jose rubio]

On Thu, 2004-02-26 at 09:19, Chris Delis wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 26, 2004 at 07:31:06AM -0500, jose rubio wrote:
> > On Wed, 2004-02-25 at 21:05, Malcolm wrote:
> > > On Wed, 25 Feb 2004 18:12:53 -0500
> > > Blues Guy <bluesguy at stny.rr.com> wrote:
> > > 
> > > > 
> > > > Here's the link to the driver... 
> > > > http://www.poptix.net/ivtv/current/msg00419.html
> > > > Chris' patches (which I didn't need) are here... 
> > > > http://www.poptix.net/ivtv/current/msg00422.html
> > > > 
> > > > With both those two, everyone with PVR-350's *should* be able to get 
> > > > stable tv-out and use the OSD/EPG without lockups....YMMV.
> > > 
> > > Thanks man :)  I'll give it a shot.
> > > ----
> > > 
> > 
> > You know, I've been following all these threads for weeks now and I
> > can't figure out what I'm doing wrong (or is it right?)
> > 
> > I've had a 350 forever and a 250 forever+3 weeks.  I've never had any
> > hard freezes with osd, epg pausing, fast forwarding, recording, tinny
> 
> I have a 350 and it works very reliably, too.  It will crash intermittently 
> when using the EPG (page up/down, left/right arrow, change channel).
> But when it does crash, it crashes hard and it's annoying enough to not
> want to use the EPG.
> 
> 
> > sound.... nothing ....
> > 
> > Right now I run myth-cvs (as of a couple of days) and ivtv 0.1.9
> > 
> > My system stays up for days at a time recording two shows at once and
> > viewing a recorded show or playing music or web surfing.  It never
> > crashes i go days without rebooting.
> > 
> > Help somebody :-)  what am I doing wrong, why won't my system crash?  Am
> > I missing something? should I be trying something cool that I don't know
> > exists?
> 
> 
> I would recommend 'knocking on wood' then.
> 
> What does your hardware setup look like?  What kernel are you running?
> 

I have a 350 and a 250.  ivtv 0.1.9, myth cvs as of yesterday. I upgrade
myth regularly and never really have problems with page up/down, arrows,
program guides, channel changes or anything like that.

My kernel is 2.4.23 that I built on 2/8/04 before that I was running
2.4.22 also with no probs.  My mobo is a via (not sure what chipset and
I never had any chipset problems either)  I use the onboard sound but
not the onboard network card because I have a prism-pci wireless card.

both front and backend on the same machine.  Debian Unstable (a couple
of month ago I was running stable but i had made so many changes to it
that i decided to restart from scratch and go with unstable)

I have alsa sound but that only cames into play with mythmusic since i
use the 350 tv-out with the tv-speakers.

One thing that might be different than alot of people is that i have
nothing in my /etc/modules.conf with respect to ivtv or myth.  Don't
know what diff it would make but all my modules are in /etc/modules


-jose-


in case anyone's interested, here's the output of lspci -v:

00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc.: Unknown device 3199
        Subsystem: VIA Technologies, Inc.: Unknown device 3199
        Flags: bus master, 66Mhz, medium devsel, latency 8
        Memory at d0000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=128M]
        Capabilities: [a0] AGP version 2.0
        Capabilities: [c0] Power Management version 2

00:01.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8366/A/7 [Apollo
KT266/A/333 AGP] (prog-if 00 [Normal decode])
        Flags: bus master, 66Mhz, medium devsel, latency 0
        Bus: primary=00, secondary=01, subordinate=01, sec-latency=0
        Memory behind bridge: e8000000-e9ffffff
        Prefetchable memory behind bridge: d8000000-dfffffff
        Capabilities: [80] Power Management version 2

00:09.0 Multimedia video controller: Internext Compression Inc iTVC15
MPEG-2 Encoder (rev 01)
        Subsystem: Hauppauge computer works Inc.: Unknown device 4000
        Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 11
        Memory at e0000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=64M]
        Capabilities: [44] Power Management version 2

00:0b.0 Multimedia video controller: Internext Compression Inc iTVC15
MPEG-2 Encoder (rev 01)
        Subsystem: Hauppauge computer works Inc.: Unknown device 4001
        Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 11
        Memory at e4000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=64M]
        Capabilities: [44] Power Management version 2

00:0e.0 Network controller: Harris Semiconductor Prism 2.5 Wavelan
chipset (rev 01)
        Subsystem: Netgear: Unknown device 4105
        Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 5
        Memory at ea000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=4K]
        Capabilities: [dc] Power Management version 2

00:10.0 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB (rev 80) (prog-if 00
[UHCI])
        Subsystem: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB
        Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 11
        I/O ports at d000 [size=32]
        Capabilities: [80] Power Management version 2

00:10.1 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB (rev 80) (prog-if 00
[UHCI])
        Subsystem: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB
        Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 5
        I/O ports at d400 [size=32]
        Capabilities: [80] Power Management version 2

00:10.2 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB (rev 80) (prog-if 00
[UHCI])
        Subsystem: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB
        Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 11
        I/O ports at d800 [size=32]
        Capabilities: [80] Power Management version 2

00:10.3 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB 2.0 (rev 82) (prog-if
20 [EHCI])
        Subsystem: Holco Enterprise Co, Ltd/Shuttle Computer: Unknown
device a238
        Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 5
        Memory at ea001000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256]
        Capabilities: [80] Power Management version 2

00:11.0 ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8235 ISA Bridge
        Subsystem: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8235 ISA Bridge
        Flags: bus master, stepping, medium devsel, latency 0
        Capabilities: [c0] Power Management version 2

00:11.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc.
VT82C586A/B/VT82C686/A/B/VT8233/A/C/VT8235 PIPC Bus Master IDE (rev 06)
(prog-if 8a [Master SecP PriP])
        Subsystem: Holco Enterprise Co, Ltd/Shuttle Computer: Unknown
device a238
        Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32
        I/O ports at dc00 [size=16]
        Capabilities: [c0] Power Management version 2

00:11.5 Multimedia audio controller: VIA Technologies, Inc.
VT8233/A/8235 AC97 Audio Controller (rev 50)
        Subsystem: Holco Enterprise Co, Ltd/Shuttle Computer: Unknown
device c063
        Flags: medium devsel, IRQ 11
        I/O ports at e000 [size=256]
        Capabilities: [c0] Power Management version 2

00:12.0 Ethernet controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT6102 [Rhine-II]
(rev 74)
        Subsystem: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT6102 [Rhine II] Embeded
Ethernet Controller on VT8235
        Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 11
        I/O ports at e400 [size=256]
        Memory at ea002000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256]
        Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 2

01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV11 [GeForce2
MX/MX 400] (rev b2) (prog-if 00 [VGA])
        Flags: bus master, 66Mhz, medium devsel, latency 248, IRQ 11
        Memory at e8000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16M]
        Memory at d8000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=128M]
        Expansion ROM at <unassigned> [disabled] [size=64K]
        Capabilities: [60] Power Management version 2
        Capabilities: [44] AGP version 2.0