[mythtv] Tuners Unavailable

[Mache Creeger]

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mysql> select 
cardid,videodevice,cardtype,hostname,defaultinput,signal_timeout,channel_timeout 
from capturecard ;
+--------+-------------+----------+----------+--------------+----------------+-----------------+
| cardid | videodevice | cardtype | hostname | defaultinput | 
signal_timeout | channel_timeout |
+--------+-------------+----------+----------+--------------+----------------+-----------------+
|      1 | /dev/video0 | MPEG     | DIGIT    | Tuner 
1      |           1000 |            3000 |
|      2 | /dev/video1 | MPEG     | DIGIT    | Tuner 
1      |           1000 |            3000 |
+--------+-------------+----------+----------+--------------+----------------+-----------------+
2 rows in set (0.00 sec)


At 11:36 AM 2/28/2008, Mache Creeger wrote:
>Pardon me for cross posting over from mythtv-users. My family has 
>become addicted to myth and without it they are starting to look at 
>me strangely.
>
>After having a similar problem of Tuner Unavailable for both PVR 500 
>tuners on my MBE, I deleted the Video4linux drivers and the Tuners 
>became available, Taking the advice of having all my machines 
>running on the same mythtv rev I then updated everything to 
>0.20.2-175 from 173 and the Tuners became unavailable again. While I 
>have an SBE and am working on adding an FE, both are shut down at 
>this time as I want to focus on getting the MBE working again.  I am 
>running Fedora 7, 2.6.23.15-80.fc7.
>
>I have deleted the video sources and the capture cards using 
>mythtv-setup on the MBE, rebooted, and reinstalled the capture 
>cards, video sources, and inputs. This is exactly the problem I had 
>before but now I do not have video4linux to delete to resolve the problem.
>
>I then went back to mythtv-setup, and re-deleted the capture cards 
>and video sources and then yum erased ivtv-firmware and ivtv-kmdl. 
>After rebooting, I reinstalled ivtv-firmware and ivtv-kmdl, 
>rebooted, and then with mythtv-setup re-configured the WinTV PVR 
>500, the video sources, and the inputs. Still no change in Tuner availability.
>
>The WinTV PVR 500 loads fine in dmesg with no errors, but when 
>mythbackend goes to initialize the recorder it comes back with none 
>found. Turning on --verbose all, does not yield any enlightening information.
>
>Can someone tell what type of logging I can turn on the resolve this 
>problem?  It seems that even though the ivtv drivers are working 
>fine, something is broken when mythbackend tries to work with it.
>
>-- Mache
>
>Additional information:
>
>I did the following tests:
>
># cat /dev/video0 > test0.mpg
># cat /dev/video1 > test1.mpg
>
>and both had good video as played by mplayer.
>
>-- Mache
>
>Here are some log excerpts from /var/log/mythtv/mythbackend
>
>2008-02-27 22:40:47.945 mythbackend version: 0.20.20070821-1 www.mythtv.org
>2008-02-27 22:40:47.945 Enabled verbose msgs: all
>2008-02-27 22:40:47.946 AutoExpire: Found 0 recorders w/max rate of 0 MiB/min
>
>2008-02-27 22:40:48.615 Encoder card 1 free space -1
>2008-02-27 22:40:48.616 Encoder card 2 free space -1
>
># dmesg | grep ivtv
>ivtv:  Start initialization, version 1.0.0
>ivtv0: Initializing card #0
>ivtv0: Autodetected Hauppauge card (cx23416 based)
>ivtv0: Unreasonably low latency timer, setting to 64 (was 32)
>ivtv0: Loaded v4l-cx2341x-enc.fw firmware (376836 bytes)
>ivtv0: Encoder revision: 0x02060039
>ivtv0: Autodetected WinTV PVR 500 (unit #1)
>tuner 2-0043: chip found @ 0x86 (ivtv i2c driver #0)
>tuner 2-0060: chip found @ 0xc0 (ivtv i2c driver #0)
>tuner 2-0061: chip found @ 0xc2 (ivtv i2c driver #0)
>cx25840 2-0044: cx25843-23 found @ 0x88 (ivtv i2c driver #0)
>wm8775 2-001b: chip found @ 0x36 (ivtv i2c driver #0)
>ivtv0: Registered device video0 for encoder MPEG (4 MB)
>ivtv0: Registered device video32 for encoder YUV (2 MB)
>ivtv0: Registered device vbi0 for encoder VBI (1 MB)
>ivtv0: Registered device video24 for encoder PCM audio (1 MB)
>ivtv0: Registered device radio0 for encoder radio
>ivtv0: Initialized card #0: WinTV PVR 500 (unit #1)
>ivtv1: Initializing card #1
>ivtv1: Autodetected Hauppauge card (cx23416 based)
>ivtv1: Unreasonably low latency timer, setting to 64 (was 32)
>ivtv1: Loaded v4l-cx2341x-enc.fw firmware (376836 bytes)
>ivtv1: Encoder revision: 0x02060039
>tuner 3-0043: chip found @ 0x86 (ivtv i2c driver #1)
>tuner 3-0061: chip found @ 0xc2 (ivtv i2c driver #1)
>cx25840 3-0044: cx25843-23 found @ 0x88 (ivtv i2c driver #1)
>wm8775 3-001b: chip found @ 0x36 (ivtv i2c driver #1)
>ivtv1: Correcting tveeprom data: no radio present on second unit
>ivtv1: Autodetected WinTV PVR 500 (unit #2)
>ivtv1: Registered device video1 for encoder MPEG (4 MB)
>ivtv1: Registered device video33 for encoder YUV (2 MB)
>ivtv1: Registered device vbi1 for encoder VBI (1 MB)
>ivtv1: Registered device video25 for encoder PCM audio (1 MB)
>ivtv1: Initialized card #1: WinTV PVR 500 (unit #2)
>ivtv:  End initialization
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