[mythtv-users] HVR-2250 - tuner unavailable

Dan Littlejohn dan.littlejohn at gmail.com
Sat Apr 14 18:43:04 UTC 2012


On Sat, Apr 14, 2012 at 8:31 AM, Greg <greg12866 at nycap.rr.com> wrote:

> On 04/13/2012 11:17 PM, Dan Littlejohn wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Apr 13, 2012 at 8:55 PM, Dan Littlejohn
>> <dan.littlejohn at gmail.com <mailto:dan.littlejohn at gmail.**com<dan.littlejohn at gmail.com>>>
>> wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>>    On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 7:23 AM, Greg <greg12866 at nycap.rr.com
>>    <mailto:greg12866 at nycap.rr.com**>> wrote:
>>
>>        On 04/11/2012 11:02 PM, Dan Littlejohn wrote:
>>
>>            Having trouble with the analog part of a new HVR-2250 card.
>>              Using
>>            Gentoo and kernel 3.2.1 and it looks like the card is loading
>> ok
>>            (below).  I downloaded the firmware and put it in
>>            /lib/firmware, not
>>            sure if that is still needed.  There are /dev/video0 and
>>            /dev/video1
>>            entries and I added it using the MPEG-2 in mythtv-setup, but
>>            the card
>>            shows up on myth as "unavailable"  Not sure what I need to
>>            look for at
>>            this point.  I have read what I can find, does anyone have
>>            any tips on
>>            getting this to work?
>>
>>            Dan
>>
>>            saa7164 driver loaded
>>            saa7164 0000:02:00.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ
>> 16
>>            CORE saa7164[0]: subsystem: 0070:8851, board: Hauppauge
>>            WinTV-HVR2250
>>            [card=7,autodetected]
>>            saa7164[0]/0: found at 0000:02:00.0, rev: 129, irq: 16,
>>            latency: 0,
>>            mmio: 0xfb800000
>>            saa7164 0000:02:00.0: setting latency timer to 64
>>            saa7164_downloadfirmware() no first image
>>            saa7164_downloadfirmware() Waiting for firmware upload
>>            (NXP7164-2010-03-10.1.fw)
>>            saa7164_downloadfirmware() firmware read 4019072 bytes.
>>            saa7164_downloadfirmware() firmware loaded.
>>            saa7164_downloadfirmware() SecBootLoader.FileSize = 4019072
>>            saa7164_downloadfirmware() FirmwareSize = 0x1fd6
>>            saa7164_downloadfirmware() BSLSize = 0x0
>>            saa7164_downloadfirmware() Reserved = 0x0
>>            saa7164_downloadfirmware() Version = 0x1661c00
>>            saa7164_downloadimage() Image downloaded, booting...
>>            saa7164_downloadimage() Image booted successfully.
>>            saa7164_downloadimage() Image downloaded, booting...
>>            saa7164_downloadimage() Image booted successfully.
>>            saa7164[0]: Hauppauge eeprom: model=88061
>>            DVB: registering new adapter (saa7164)
>>            DVB: registering new adapter (saa7164)
>>            saa7164[0]: registered device video0 [mpeg]
>>            saa7164[0]: registered device video1 [mpeg]
>>            saa7164[0]: registered device vbi0 [vbi]
>>            saa7164[0]: registered device vbi1 [vbi]
>>
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>>        I had the same problem,it was suggested that I read over this
>> post..
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>>        http://ubuntuforums.org/__**showthread.php?t=1567490&page=**__10<http://ubuntuforums.org/__showthread.php?t=1567490&page=__10>
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>>        I followed post #99...Thanks to Craig Cook for that...
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>>    minor progress on this.  If I use /dev/video1 and s-video I get a
>>    picture,but no sound.  Am using the 3.5 jack and verified it works
>>    with other devices, but it does not work when recording with myth.
>>    If I cat /dev/video1 > /tmp/test.mpg the recording is created, but
>>    does not have any sound.  I have looked high and low for a solution
>>    and post #99 does not help any on this.  Anyone have experience with
>>    this problem or a hint on what I should be looking into?
>>
>>
>> Well, I finally figured it out.  I was trying to use the adapter card
>> s-video with the 3.5 jack.  I could never get it to work.  I finally
>> found a pig tail s-video / audio adapter in the HVR-2250 box and found
>> that if I used that I could get video and audio.  So basically, don't
>> use the adapter card.  Still having a problem with having to restart
>> myth several time to get the card to be usable.  I will post back if I
>> figure that out.
>>
>> Dan
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> I had a very hard time getting that card to work,but since I finally
> figured it out (with help) It runs great... Just a thought,are you sure the
> card isn't switching nodes? Mine does on occasion...I tried to write an
> udev rule to put the card on a static node,but everything I tried doesn't
> seem to create the sym-link....
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when you say your card is switching nodes how are you determining which
node udev is using?  What does your udev rule look like?

Dan
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