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

[Jarod Wilson]

On Thursday 28 April 2005 20:52, Adrian wrote:
> I have a very similar problems to Larry's.  I have a PVR-350 which works
> pretty well.  I recently added a PVR-150, which I have not been able to
> get to work (even by itself).  I tried Jarod's modprobe settings, but
> nothing seemed to change.

The ones below with the i2c_enable stuff? If not, try those. If so, try 
shutting down, powering off, pulling the power cord for a minute, then boot 
back up. The 150s (and 500s) are notorious for holding onto bad settings, but 
if you give their capacitors enough time to discharge, they usually play nice 
again...

> The PVR-150 seems to be initialized just fine by ivtv (see attached), but
> it produces no output on /dev/video1.  The only anomaly that I have
> noticed is in the lspci output, it reports "unknown device" as follows
> (May be normal for PVR-150??):

The lspci output shouldn't matter.

> > 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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