[mythtv-users] PVR-150 Setup Problems

Fri Aug 26 07:19:14 UTC 2005

I will try to be as thorough as possible to expediate this.  Got a pair 
of PVR-150 cards today to replace my BT878 cards.  Tossed em into my 
backend and dove into HOWTOs and FAQs at various websites.  So far here 
is where I am.

Removed ivtv related modules from Mandriva kernel.
Downloaded ivtv.
Compiled ivtv.
Extracted the firmware from CD.
Symlinked the proper firmware file.

-modprobe.conf-
alias char-major-81 -0 ivtv
alias char-major-81 -1 ivtv
options ivtv tuner=-1,-1

I think i have that all setup properly.  So after a modprobe tveeprom, i 
issue the crucial modprobe ivtv and here is the output.

ivtv: ==================== START INIT IVTV ====================
ivtv: version 0.2.0 (rc3j) loading
ivtv: Linux version: 2.6.11-6mdk 686 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
ivtv: Found an iTVC16 based chip
PCI: Found IRQ 10 for device 0000:02:0b.0
PCI: Sharing IRQ 10 with 0000:00:1f.4
ivtv: Unreasonably low latency timer, setting to 64 (was 32)
ivtv: XXX PCI device: 0x1a30 vendor: 0x8086
ivtv: i2c attach [client=tveeprom,ok]
tveeprom: Hauppauge: model = 26552, rev = C268, serial# = 7969385
tveeprom: tuner = LG TAPE H001F MK3 (idx = 68, type = 47)
tveeprom: tuner fmt = NTSC(M) (eeprom = 0x08, v4l2 = 0x00001000)
tveeprom: audio_processor = MSP3410D (type = 5)
ivtv: Tuner Type 47, Tuner formats 0x00001000, Radio: yes, Model 
0x008d2598, Revision 0xe0c397a0
ivtv: NTSC tuner detected
ivtv: Radio detected
tuner: chip found at addr 0xc2 i2c-bus ivtv i2c driver #0
ivtv: i2c attach [client=(tuner unset),ok]
cx25840: Ignoring new-style parameters in presence of obsolete ones
cx25840: FW image '/lib/modules/HcwMakoA.ROM' of size 14264 loaded.
cx25840: FW image md5 digest: 3a4803384f749d644ee1f1ca9dcb12fa
cx25840: FW image sha1 digest: 2b5e6292b7391c980b93d156cf6b34178ce770f6
ivtv: i2c attach [client=cx25840[0],ok]
wm8775: Ignoring new-style parameters in presence of obsolete ones
wm8775: Setting register ADCFMT (7) to 1, R11.0..1, old value 02
wm8775: Setting register ADCMS (8) to 1, R12.8..8, old value 00
wm8775: Setting register DCY (24) to 8, R18.4..7, old value 03
wm8775: Setting register NGAT (27) to 1, R19.0..0, old value 00
wm8775: Setting register LRBOTH (30) to 1, R21.8..8, old value 00
wm8775: Setting register AMX (33) to 15, R21.0..3, old value 01
wm8775: Updating register 0 (R23), config: 2e01 active: 2e00.
wm8775: Skipping register 1 (R7), config: 0e00 active: 0e00.
wm8775: Updating register 2 (R11), config: 1622 active: 1621.
wm8775: Updating register 3 (R12), config: 1802 active: 1902.
wm8775: Skipping register 4 (R13), config: 1a00 active: 1a00.
wm8775: Skipping register 5 (R14), config: 1ccf active: 1ccf.
wm8775: Skipping register 6 (R15), config: 1ecf active: 1ecf.
wm8775: Skipping register 7 (R16), config: 207b active: 207b.
wm8775: Skipping register 8 (R17), config: 2200 active: 2200.
wm8775: Updating register 9 (R18), config: 2432 active: 2482.
wm8775: Updating register 10 (R19), config: 2600 active: 2601.
wm8775: Skipping register 11 (R20), config: 2826 active: 2826.
wm8775: Updating register 12 (R21), config: 2a01 active: 2b0f.
ivtv: i2c attach [client=wm8775[0],ok]
ivtv: Encoder revision: 0x02050032
ivtv: Encoder Firmware may be buggy, use version 0x02040011
ivtv: Configuring WinTV PVR 150 card with 5 streams
ivtv: Create DMA stream 0 using 256 16384 byte buffers  4194304 kbytes total
ivtv: Registered v4l2 device, streamtype 0 minor 0
ivtv: Create DMA stream 1
ivtv: Registered v4l2 device, streamtype 1 minor 32
ivtv: Create stream 2 using 40 52224 byte buffers  2097152 kbytes total
ivtv: Registered v4l2 device, streamtype 2 minor 224
ivtv: Create DMA stream 3 using 455 4608 byte buffers  2097152 kbytes total
ivtv: Registered v4l2 device, streamtype 3 minor 24
ivtv: Create stream 4
ivtv: Registered v4l2 device, streamtype 4 minor 64
ivtv: Setting Tuner 47
tuner: type set to 47 (LG NTSC (TAPE series)) by ivtv i2c driver #0
ivtv: Switching standard to NTSC.
ivtv: Initialized WinTV PVR 150, card #0
ivtv: Autodetected WinTV PVR 150 card
ivtv: Found an iTVC16 based chip
ivtv: ivtv_enc_thread: pid = 6781, itv = 0xe0c397a0
PCI: Found IRQ 9 for device 0000:02:0c.0
PCI: Sharing IRQ 9 with 0000:00:1f.3
PCI: Sharing IRQ 9 with 0000:00:1f.5
PCI: Sharing IRQ 9 with 0000:02:0e.0
ivtv: Unreasonably low latency timer, setting to 64 (was 32)
ivtv: XXX PCI device: 0x1a30 vendor: 0x8086
ivtv: i2c attach [client=tveeprom,ok]
tuner: chip found at addr 0xc2 i2c-bus ivtv i2c driver #1
ivtv: i2c attach [client=(tuner unset),ok]
cx25840: FW image '/lib/modules/HcwMakoA.ROM' of size 14264 loaded.
cx25840: FW image md5 digest: 3a4803384f749d644ee1f1ca9dcb12fa
cx25840: FW image sha1 digest: 2b5e6292b7391c980b93d156cf6b34178ce770f6
ivtv: i2c attach [client=cx25840[1],ok]
wm8775: Setting register ADCFMT (7) to 1, R11.0..1, old value 02
wm8775: Setting register ADCMS (8) to 1, R12.8..8, old value 00
wm8775: Setting register DCY (24) to 8, R18.4..7, old value 03
wm8775: Setting register NGAT (27) to 1, R19.0..0, old value 00
wm8775: Setting register LRBOTH (30) to 1, R21.8..8, old value 00
wm8775: Setting register AMX (33) to 15, R21.0..3, old value 01
wm8775: Updating register 0 (R23), config: 2e01 active: 2e00.
wm8775: Skipping register 1 (R7), config: 0e00 active: 0e00.
wm8775: Updating register 2 (R11), config: 1622 active: 1621.
wm8775: Updating register 3 (R12), config: 1802 active: 1902.
wm8775: Skipping register 4 (R13), config: 1a00 active: 1a00.
wm8775: Skipping register 5 (R14), config: 1ccf active: 1ccf.
wm8775: Skipping register 6 (R15), config: 1ecf active: 1ecf.
wm8775: Skipping register 7 (R16), config: 207b active: 207b.
wm8775: Skipping register 8 (R17), config: 2200 active: 2200.
wm8775: Updating register 9 (R18), config: 2432 active: 2482.
wm8775: Updating register 10 (R19), config: 2600 active: 2601.
wm8775: Skipping register 11 (R20), config: 2826 active: 2826.
wm8775: Updating register 12 (R21), config: 2a01 active: 2b0f.
ivtv: i2c attach [client=wm8775[1],ok]
tveeprom: Hauppauge: model = 26552, rev = C268, serial# = 8402116
tveeprom: tuner = LG TAPE H001F MK3 (idx = 68, type = 47)
tveeprom: tuner fmt = NTSC(M) (eeprom = 0x08, v4l2 = 0x00001000)
tveeprom: audio_processor = MSP3410D (type = 5)
ivtv: Tuner Type 47, Tuner formats 0x00001000, Radio: yes, Model 
0x008d2598, Revision 0xe0c4da60
ivtv: NTSC tuner detected
ivtv: Radio detected
ivtv: Encoder revision: 0x02050032
ivtv: Encoder Firmware may be buggy, use version 0x02040011
ivtv: Configuring WinTV PVR 150 card with 5 streams
ivtv: Create DMA stream 0 using 256 16384 byte buffers  4194304 kbytes total
ivtv: Registered v4l2 device, streamtype 0 minor 1
ivtv: Create DMA stream 1
ivtv: Registered v4l2 device, streamtype 1 minor 33
ivtv: Create stream 2 using 40 52224 byte buffers  2097152 kbytes total
ivtv: Registered v4l2 device, streamtype 2 minor 225
ivtv: Create DMA stream 3 using 455 4608 byte buffers  2097152 kbytes total
ivtv: Registered v4l2 device, streamtype 3 minor 25
ivtv: Create stream 4
ivtv: Registered v4l2 device, streamtype 4 minor 65
ivtv: Setting Tuner 47
tuner: type set to 47 (LG NTSC (TAPE series)) by ivtv i2c driver #1
ivtv: ivtv_enc_thread: pid = 6951, itv = 0xe0c4da60
ivtv: Switching standard to NTSC.
ivtv: Initialized WinTV PVR 150, card #1
ivtv: ====================  END INIT IVTV  ====================

That log looks good to me.  When i go to mythtv-setup I assume I should 
choose the pvr-250/350 options since there isnt one for the 150/500.  I 
setup my 2 new tuners, link them to my source on Tuner0 and load up the 
frontend. 

I got static fading in and out.  Tried changing channels it was the 
same.  Fading in and out of a black screen and static.  I tried cat 
/dev/video0 to a .mpg and playing it with mplayer and found the same 
output.  I also tried using ptune_ui to manually tune it to a channel 
and I got same thing.

Anyone run into the problem?  I will go to ivtv-devel next, but just in 
case I am missing something easy that myth users have run across. 