[mythtv-users] Problems with upgrade install
Jay Ashworth
jra at baylink.com
Tue Sep 24 02:26:55 UTC 2013
----- Original Message -----
> From: "Joseph Fry" <joe at thefrys.com>
> > I've physically swapped the cards in the 2 PCI slots, and while that
> > didn't fix the problem, oddly, the IVTV drivers are still enumerating
> > the -250 first, and then the two tuners of the -500 after; I checked
> > the tuner models while I had the cards out, and it's correctly seeing
> > the 25532 tuners on the dual, and the 32032 on the single... but it
> > can't tune them to the channel reliably.
> >
> > I did look in YaST, and found that it still knew about the 4 old tuners,
> > and had no configuration for the 3 new ones... and deleted the old 4, and
> > saw that the new 3 defaulted to PAL / Europe, and switched that to
> > NTSC/Cable-US, and then rebooted, but that didn't affect it either.
> >
> >> and the dmesg data about the tuners on boot here:
> >>
> >> http://pastebin.com/9amyJsBH
> >>
> >> lspci looks like this:
> >>
> >> http://pastebin.com/HsPi30sV
> >
> > Those predate the card swap; I assume they've reversed, but I haven't
> > rerun them yet; this project has chewed up 72 hours of what would
> > otherwise be revenue work, and I'm getting sick of looking at it.
> >
> > Any thoughts, folks?
>
> Pull one card... probably the 250... and get the 500 working first
> before introducing the second card. I remember hearing about issues
> years ago using multiple Hauppage tuners of various types... I'm not
> sure that this is still the case, or perhaps when you initially set up
> this system you had to do something that you don't recall now...
> something that was far more common knowledge when everyone was doing
> analog.
This machine has had 3 tuners from in front, originally, 2 250s and a 350;
several cards have died and been replaced; on the old KT400 mobo, it was
2 250s and a 500, though the 500 only ever actually provided one working
tuner.
I'll give that a try, Joe, and see if it helps.
Cheers,
-- jra
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