[mythtv-users] PVR-350 with tv-out and PVR-150MCE combo setting

Larry Symms lsymms at comcast.net
Thu Apr 28 23:06:53 UTC 2005


Jarod Wilson wrote:

>On Monday 25 April 2005 05:37, Larry Symms wrote:
>  
>
>>I'm having nothing but trouble getting this combo to work.  I've tried
>>this with 0.2.0 rc3i and 0.3.2u.  The 150 is located at PCI:1:9:0 and
>>the 350 is located at PCI:1:8:0.  Ivtv seems to be detecting the 150
>>fine, without errors but video1 is giving me nothing, not even static,
>>while video0 (the 350) works fine.  Here's my modules.conf snippet (note
>>that ivtv is autodecting both tuners as type 47):
>>
>>alias char-major-61 lirc_i2c
>>alias char-major-81 videodev
>>alias char-major-81-0 ivtv
>>alias char-major-81-1 ivtv
>>options ivtv ivtv_debug=1 ivtv_std=1 tuner=47,47
>>options cx25840 no_black_magic=1
>>
>>I'm sure the problem is in the options ivtv line.  Any suggestions?
>>    
>>
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>You need some i2c_enable statements in there. I have a 350 in the same box as 
>a 500, works just fine. Try this:
>
>alias char-major-81 videodev
>alias char-major-81-0 ivtv
>alias char-major-81-1 ivtv
>options saa7127 i2c_enable=1,-1
>options ivtv ivtv_debug=1 ivtv_std=1 tuner=47,47
>options cx25840 i2c_enable=-1,1 no_black_magic=1
>
>The saa7127 driver for the 350's output is hijacking the i2c bus on the 150, 
>the -1 to i2c_enable tells it to not enable for a given card.
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>
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Thanks Jarod.  That sounds like exactly what it's doing.  I'll give it a 
try ASAP (which might be a while without seriously affecting WAF).


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