[mythtv-users] PVR 500MCE worth the trouble yet?

Fri Jul 22 18:04:58 EDT 2005

Interestingly enough, I'm using 0.2.0 (rc3j).  Maybe I
have one of the early PVR-500 cards, I'm not sure. 
But, it works fine.  Here's the dmesg output:

ivtv: ==================== START INIT IVTV
====================
ivtv: version 0.2.0 (rc3j) loading
ivtv: Linux version: 2.6.11-1.27_FC3 686 REGPARM
4KSTACKS 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 250 card
ivtv: Found an iTVC15 based chip
ivtv: Unreasonably low latency timer, setting to 64
(was 32)
ivtv: XXX PCI device: 0x0755 vendor: 0x1039
ivtv: i2c attach [client=tveeprom[0],ok]
ivtv: Tuner Type 8, Tuner formats 0x00001000, Radio:
yes, Model 0x009d4496, Revision 0x00000000
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]
saa7115: starting probe for adapter ivtv i2c driver #0
(0x10005)
ivtv: i2c attach [client=saa7115[0],ok]
msp34xx: ivtv version
ivtv: i2c attach [client=MSP3445G-B8,ok]
ivtv: Encoder revision: 0x02040024
ivtv: Encoder Firmware may be buggy, use version
0x02040011
ivtv: Decoder revision: 0x02020023
ivtv: Configuring WinTV PVR 250 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 8
tuner: type set to 8 (Temic NTSC (4036 FY5)) by ivtv
i2c driver #0
ivtv: Setting audio matrix to input 3, output 1
ivtv: Switching standard to NTSC.
ivtv: ivtv_enc_thread: pid = 2011, itv = 0xe09c60a0
ivtv: Initialized WinTV PVR 250, card #0
ivtv: Autodetected WinTV PVR 150 card
ivtv: Found an iTVC16 based chip
ivtv: Unreasonably low latency timer, setting to 64
(was 32)
ivtv: XXX PCI device: 0x0755 vendor: 0x1039
ivtv: i2c attach [client=tveeprom[1],ok]
tuner: chip found at addr 0xc2 i2c-bus ivtv i2c driver
#1
ivtv: i2c attach [client=(tuner unset),ok]
saa7115: starting probe for adapter ivtv i2c driver #1
(0x10005)
ivtv: Tuner Type 57, Tuner formats 0x00001000, Radio:
yes, Model 0x00914652, Revision 0x00000001
ivtv: NTSC tuner detected
ivtv: Radio detected
ivtv: i2c attach [client=cx25840[0],ok]
ivtv: i2c attach [client=wm8775[0],ok]
ivtv: Encoder revision: 0x02040024
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 57
tuner: type set to 57 (Philips FQ1236A MK4) by ivtv
i2c driver #1
ivtv: Switching standard to NTSC.
ivtv: Initialized WinTV PVR 150, card #1
ivtv: Autodetected WinTV PVR 150 card
ivtv: Found an iTVC16 based chip
ivtv: ivtv_enc_thread: pid = 2155, itv = 0xe09da540
ivtv: Unreasonably low latency timer, setting to 64
(was 32)
ivtv: XXX PCI device: 0x0755 vendor: 0x1039
ivtv: i2c attach [client=tveeprom[2],ok]
tuner: chip found at addr 0xc2 i2c-bus ivtv i2c driver
#2
ivtv: i2c attach [client=(tuner unset),ok]
saa7115: starting probe for adapter ivtv i2c driver #2
(0x10005)
ivtv: i2c attach [client=cx25840[1],ok]
ivtv: i2c attach [client=wm8775[1],ok]
ivtv: Tuner Type 57, Tuner formats 0x00001000, Radio:
yes, Model 0x00914652, Revision 0x00000001
ivtv: NTSC tuner detected
ivtv: Radio detected
ivtv: Encoder revision: 0x02040024
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 2
ivtv: Create DMA stream 1
ivtv: Registered v4l2 device, streamtype 1 minor 34
ivtv: Create stream 2 using 40 52224 byte buffers 
2097152 kbytes total
ivtv: Registered v4l2 device, streamtype 2 minor 226
ivtv: Create DMA stream 3 using 455 4608 byte buffers 
2097152 kbytes total
ivtv: Registered v4l2 device, streamtype 3 minor 26
ivtv: Create stream 4
ivtv: Registered v4l2 device, streamtype 4 minor 66
ivtv: Setting Tuner 57
tuner: type set to 57 (Philips FQ1236A MK4) by ivtv
i2c driver #2
ivtv: Switching standard to NTSC.
ivtv: Initialized WinTV PVR 150, card #2
ivtv: ====================  END INIT IVTV 
====================
ivtv: ivtv_enc_thread: pid = 2360, itv = 0xe09ee9e0
ivtv: i2c attach [client=Hauppauge IR,ok]

Note though, that I haven't tested out the radio yet. 
It's not something that I use (right now).  The
PVR-500 is detected as two PVR-150 cards, which it
apparently should be.

-- Joe

--- Andrew Close <aclose at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 7/22/05, Joe Votour <joevph at yahoo.com> wrote:
> > I am using a setup with a PVR-500 and a PVR-250,
> and
> > it is working absolutely fine, with no problems at
> > all.
> > 
> > I am using ATrpms, stable, and followed the guide
> by
> > Jarod Wilson.  All three tuners are recording just
> > fine.
> > 
> > Here's the relevant portions of my modprobe.conf:
> > ##########
> > alias char-major-61 lirc_i2c
> > # ivtv modules setup
> > alias char-major-81 videodev
> > alias char-major-81-0 ivtv
> > alias char-major-81-1 ivtv
> > alias char-major-81-2 ivtv
> > options cx25840 no_black_magic=1
> > alias tveeprom tveeprom-ivtv
> > alias msp3400 msp3400-ivtv
> > alias tuner tuner-ivtv
> > install lirc_i2c /sbin/modprobe ivtv;
> /sbin/modprobe
> > --ignore-install lirc_i2c
> > ##########
> <snip/>
> 
> Joe,
> 
> what ivtv driver are you using just out of
> curiosity?  i looked at
> Jareds directions when i installed my 500 (even
> though i'm running
> KnoppMyth) and added some of his modprobe settings
> to my config. 
> everything works fine, but i noticed on boot the
> other day that the
> options cx25840 no_black_magic=1 errored out with
> some msg saying that
> the options tag was no longer valid and would be
> ignored.  so i've
> removed that line with no noticable affects to my
> system.  so i'm just
> curious if my driver version is newer (3.6.y i
> think) than yours and
> that line is no longer valid; or what?
> i actually ended up removing quite a few of those
> lines one at a time
> and seeing what happened.  i'll try to post my
> config back to this
> thread tonight with a confirmed ivtv driver version.
> 
> thanks
> andy
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