[mythtv-users] Hauppauge HVR3000, PVR350 & Ubuntu 7.04

Russ W. Knize rknize at yahoo.com
Thu May 10 02:37:44 UTC 2007


On Tue, 2007-05-08 at 12:16 +0200, Stef Coene wrote:
> On Tuesday 08 May 2007, Adrian Skehill wrote:
> > Hi Guys,
> >
> > I thought this would be reasonably obvious but I'm not having any luck
> > googling on this topic. I recently upgraded my super reliable myth box to
> > 7.04,(AMD 3200, 64bit) and hoped to add the Hauppague 3000 to the box which
> > already was running a 350. However, it's then the trouble began, and now I
> > can't used either card, so I'm hoping somebody here as some advice!
> >
> > The 350 worked for a bit with ivtv 0.10.1 which comes with Ubuntu, however
> > after about 15 mins, the IRQ (11 in this case) gets disabled, and the card
> > eventually gets shutdown. I read from here and on ivtv-devel that there are
> > problems with ivtv and interrupts, but that was for clock skew. Has anybody
> > got this working?
> >
> > Secondly, the 3000 (even when just in the box on its own) cannot give me
> > any analouge TV. When I go to cat /dev/video0 I get Input / Output error.
> > It's an cx88 based chipset, and there's no obvious errors in the syslog.
> >
> > Hopefully I'm missing something really obvious here, any help you have to
> > offer is much appreciated!
> With kernel and ivtv firmware from feisty, my mythbackend reboots when I try 
> to record something.
> I had to use the kernel and ivtv firmware from edgy to get my pvr500 working:
> linux-image-2.6.17-10-server
> ivtv-firmware 0.20070217

ivtv 0.10.1 has a problem with it's interrupt handler tying up the PCI
bus to too long while it retrives VBI data over PIO.  It creates latency
issues and you get these DMA errors.  I'm going to move forward with
ivtv SVN, which should have the issue fixed.

Russ



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