[mythtv-users] PVR 500 defective?
Danesh
danesh.i at gmail.com
Mon Oct 3 01:56:59 UTC 2005
Hey,
Thanks a lot. The link you sent me helped me fix the problem. As a
bonus it also seemed to fix my radio (I now have a radio0 under
/dev/v4l/ -- although it still doesnt work but thats a different
matter).
P.S. I didn't have to download the svn version of ivtv.
Regards,
~Danesh
On 9/29/05, Cory Papenfuss <papenfuss at juneau.me.vt.edu> wrote:
> Well, I played with my PVR-500 a bit last night. I followed the
> thread here:
> http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/ivtv/devel/24322?search_string=second%20pvr-500;#24322
>
> My card had the 0x60 vs. 0x61 tuners just like the other guy's.
> So, I applied the patch that adds the lines:
>
> TVEEPROM_KERN_INFO("Second (radio) tuner idx %d\n",
> eeprom_data[i + 2]);
> to tveeprom.c. It does seem to work now.
>
> I don't know if that helps your problem. In fact, I haven't even
> figured out how that patch really does anything... it appears to only
> printk() a debug message.
>
> -Cory
>
> On Wed, 28 Sep 2005, Cory Papenfuss wrote:
>
> > I will try to look closer at my card tonight and see if I can see if
> > my dmesg log matches anyone else's situation. My trouble is getting the
> > machine in the same place as the cable signal and 'net access.
> >
> > -Cory
> >
> > On Wed, 28 Sep 2005, Danesh wrote:
> >
> >> Cory::
> >>
> >> Both tuners seem to initialize.
> >>
> >>
> >> Dave::
> >>
> >> Under /lib/modules I have
> >>
> >> -r--r--r-- 1 root root 369K Sep 27 23:07 HcwFalcn.rom
> >> -r--r--r-- 1 root root 14K Sep 27 23:07 HcwMakoA.ROM
> >> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 25 Sep 27 23:07 ivtv-fw-enc.bin ->
> >> /lib/modules/HcwFa
> >>
> >> md5sums
> >>
> >> 5f5fa240ada73c3565f5f7de4c7b5138 HcwFalcn.rom
> >> 3a4803384f749d644ee1f1ca9dcb12fa HcwMakoA.ROM
> >> 5f5fa240ada73c3565f5f7de4c7b5138 ivtv-fw-enc.bin
> >>
> >> I will try downgrading the firmware to an older version. Is the
> >> 0x02040011 version the one on the CD?
> >>
> >> I can access both tuners fine. Only one gives me nothing but static. I
> >> don't know if this is related to a 'vbi: Invalid argument' I get on
> >> the terminal when mythfrontend is running.
> >>
> >>
> >> Greg::
> >>
> >> Thanks for the pointer. I had it setup this way already. The capturing
> >> Im trying to do which is giving me static is using ptune and cat
> >> /dev/v4l/video0 > ~/vid0.mpg. The tuner0, tuner1, s-video0, etc
> >> doesn't come into it.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> On 9/28/05, Dave Sherohman <esper at sherohman.org> wrote:
> >>> On Wed, Sep 28, 2005 at 10:34:40AM -0400, Cory Papenfuss wrote:
> >>>> There was a thread about a similar thing on ivtv-devel a week or
> >>>> so ago. A friend of mine's PVR-500 and the one I recently purchased has
> >>>> the same problem: only tuner1 works... tuner2 is static. I haven't had
> >>>> time to work on mine and figure it out.
> >>>
> >>> Looks to me like Danesh has a different problem... He said he's
> >>> getting static from the first tuner (he calls it "video0", you call
> >>> it "tuner 1"), while the second works fine.
> >>>
> >>> I have a problem with mine where the first tuner works fine and the
> >>> second tuner returns nothing, though, and haven't been able to get
> >>> anything definitive from ivtv-users... Guess I'll have to check out
> >>> ivtv-devel and see what I can find there.
> >>>
> >>>> IIRC, the current theory has to do with i2c not initializing it
> >>>> properly and/or the tveeprom module used is the wrong one. I tried
> >>>> manually loading the ivtv-based tveeprom on mine last night (rather than
> >>>> the kernel one), but no joy.
> >>>
> >>> Oh, looks like you're affected by the problem under discussion on
> >>> ivtv-devel? Do you show a bunch of errors in dmesg that look like
> >>> "ivtv warning: i2c client addr: 0x44 not found for command
> >>> 0x40046406!"? If so, that's the same problem I have... (Danesh,
> >>> OTOH, is definitely having a different problem than I am, since he
> >>> initializes without any of those errors.)
> >>>
> >>>> On Wed, 28 Sep 2005, Danesh wrote:
> >>>
> >>>>> cx25840: loading /lib/modules/HcwMakoA.ROM
> >>>>> ivtv: i2c attach to card #0 ok [client=cx25840, addr=44]
> >>>>> ivtv: i2c attach to card #0 ok [client=wm8775, addr=1b]
> >>>>> tda9885/6/7: chip found @ 0x86
> >>>>> ivtv: i2c attach to card #0 ok [client=tda9887, addr=43]
> >>>>> ivtv: loading /lib/modules/ivtv-fw-enc.bin
> >>>>> ivtv: Encoder revision: 0x02050032
> >>>>> ivtv warning: Encoder Firmware can be buggy, use version 0x02040011!!!!
> >>>
> >>> This is what I would look at first. Are you sure you have the right
> >>> firmware binaries in /lib/modules? Here's what I've got in mine:
> >>>
> >>> -r--r--r-- 1 root root 14264 2005-08-27 20:14 HcwMakoA.ROM
> >>> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 262144 2005-08-27 20:12 ivtv-fw-dec.bin
> >>> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 262144 2005-08-27 20:12 ivtv-fw-enc.bin
> >>>
> >>> # md5sum HcwMakoA.ROM ivtv-fw-dec.bin ivtv-fw-enc.bin
> >>> 3a4803384f749d644ee1f1ca9dcb12fa HcwMakoA.ROM
> >>> 305dba74bbe5905447add8883f3ecb68 ivtv-fw-dec.bin
> >>> ab75947ef1b086e26f9b08e628baa02e ivtv-fw-enc.bin
> >>>
> >>> If yours don't match, you may want to try downloading an older
> >>> ivtv-fw-enc.bin/ivtv-fw-dec.bin and see if that helps. (A check of
> >>> my dmesg output shows that I'm using revision 0x02040011, as
> >>> recommended by the warning you're getting.)
> >>>
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> *************************************************************************
> * Cory Papenfuss *
> * Electrical Engineering candidate Ph.D. graduate student *
> * Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University *
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