[mythtv-users] PVR 500 defective?

Wed Sep 28 20:34:46 UTC 2005

Ok. I installed the stable firmware and still no difference. static on
the first tuner (/dev/video0) and proper video on the second tuner
(/dev/video1). It no longer complains about "ivtv warning: Encoder
Firmware can be buggy, use version 0x02040011!!!!".. Any other
suggestions? Thanks in advance!

>>>> dmesg

ivtv: ==================== START INIT IVTV ====================
ivtv: version 0.3.9 (development svn snapshot revision ) loading
ivtv: Linux version: 2.6.12-gentoo-r10 preempt gcc-3.4
ivtv: In case of problems please include the debug info
ivtv: between the START INIT IVTV and END INIT IVTV lines when
ivtv: mailing the ivtv-devel mailinglist.
ivtv: Autodetected WinTV PVR 150 card (iTVC16 based)
ivtv: Unreasonably low latency timer, setting to 64 (was 32)
ivtv: i2c attach to card #0 ok [client=tveeprom, addr=50]
ivtv: This is the first unit of a PVR500
ivtv: i2c attach to card #0 ok [client=(tuner unset), addr=60]
tuner 2-0060: chip found @ 0xc0 (ivtv i2c driver #0)
ivtv: i2c attach to card #0 ok [client=cx25840, addr=44]
ivtv: i2c attach to card #0 ok [client=wm8775, addr=1b]
ivtv: i2c attach to card #0 ok [client=tda9887, addr=43]
ivtv: loading /lib/modules/ivtv-fw-enc.bin
ivtv: Encoder revision: 0x02040011
ivtv: Allocate DMA encoder MPEG stream: 128 x 32768 buffers (4096KB total)
ivtv: Allocate DMA encoder YUV stream: 194 x 10800 buffers (2048KB total)
ivtv: Allocate DMA encoder VBI stream: 120 x 17472 buffers (2048KB total)
ivtv: Allocate DMA encoder PCM audio stream: 455 x 4608 buffers (2048KB total)
ivtv: Initialized WinTV PVR 500 (unit #1), card #0
ivtv: ======================  NEXT CARD  ======================
ivtv: Autodetected WinTV PVR 150 card (iTVC16 based)
ivtv: Unreasonably low latency timer, setting to 64 (was 32)
ivtv: i2c attach to card #1 ok [client=tveeprom, addr=50]
ivtv: i2c attach to card #1 ok [client=(tuner unset), addr=61]
tuner 3-0061: chip found @ 0xc2 (ivtv i2c driver #1)
ivtv: i2c attach to card #1 ok [client=cx25840, addr=44]
ivtv: i2c attach to card #1 ok [client=wm8775, addr=1b]
ivtv: i2c attach to card #1 ok [client=tda9887, addr=43]
ivtv: This is the second unit of a PVR500
ivtv: Correcting tveeprom data: no radio present on second unit
ivtv: loading /lib/modules/ivtv-fw-enc.bin
ivtv: Encoder revision: 0x02040011
ivtv: Allocate DMA encoder MPEG stream: 128 x 32768 buffers (4096KB total)
ivtv: Allocate DMA encoder YUV stream: 194 x 10800 buffers (2048KB total)
ivtv: Allocate DMA encoder VBI stream: 120 x 17472 buffers (2048KB total)
ivtv: Allocate DMA encoder PCM audio stream: 455 x 4608 buffers (2048KB total)
ivtv: Initialized WinTV PVR 500 (unit #2), card #1
ivtv: ====================  END INIT IVTV  ====================

>>>> md5sum /lib/modules/*

ab75947ef1b086e26f9b08e628baa02e  /lib/modules/HcwFalcn.rom
3a4803384f749d644ee1f1ca9dcb12fa  /lib/modules/HcwMakoA.ROM
305dba74bbe5905447add8883f3ecb68  /lib/modules/ivtv-fw-dec.bin
ab75947ef1b086e26f9b08e628baa02e  /lib/modules/ivtv-fw-enc.bin

Regards,
~Danesh

On 9/28/05, Cory Papenfuss <papenfuss at juneau.me.vt.edu> 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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