[mythtv-users] Configuration problem with PVR-350 and GeForce2 with tv out

Fedor Pikus fpikus at gmail.com
Sun Jun 19 04:23:28 UTC 2005


fbdev is actually framebuffer driver for NVidia cards, so it does the
right thing when it shows PCI ID of your GeForce. You want ivtv-fb
module. Make sure you read the PVR350 section of Jarod's Howto for all
the ivtv parameters:

http://wilsonet.com/mythtv/fcmyth.php?SID&expandables=closed&ivtv=open&pvr350out=open#capture


On 18 Jun 2005 17:36:55 -0700, Jim Reith <reith at racores.com> wrote:
>  
> I've set up a KnoppMyth box that includes an AGP GeForce2 card with TV out
> and a PVR-350 and want to output my video through the PVR-350 tv out. I'm
> new to KnoppMyth (but not linux) and have been playing with this new machine
> for about a week now, have looked at all the PRV-x50 notes and think I have
> figured out the problem but not a solution. I believe I am having problems
> because my AGP graphics card has video out and I want to use the 350's video
> out. (note, the IR Remote also isn't working but I think that might be
> partially due to this pvr-350 setup issue) The error I get starting the X
> server is:
>  
> 
>  
> (EE) open /dev/fb1: No such device 
> (EE) No devices detected. 
> 
>  
> 
>  
> Just above this in the log I see
>  
> (II) FBDEV: driver for framebuffer: fbdev, afb 
> (II) Primary Device is: PCI 03:00:0 
> 
>  
> 
>  
> lspci -v gives:
>  
> 0000:01:0a.0 Multimedia video controller: Internext Compression Inc iTVC15
> MPEG-2 Encoder (rev 01) 
> Subsystem: Hauppauge computer works Inc. WinTV PVR-350 
> Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 16 
> Memory at d8000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=64M] 
> Capabilities: [44] Power Management version 2 
> 
>  
> 0000:03:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV11 [GeForce2
> MX/MX 400] (rev b2) (prog-if 00 [VGA]) 
> Subsystem: Micro-Star International Co., Ltd.: Unknown device 8523 
> Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 5 
> Memory at e0000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16M] 
> Memory at d0000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=128M] 
> Capabilities: [60] Power Management version 2 
> Capabilities: [44] AGP version 2.0 
> 
>  
> 
>  
> My XF86Config-4 specifies:
>  
> Section "Device" 
> Identifier "Hauppauge PVR 350 iTVC15 Framebuffer" 
> Driver "fbdev" 
> 
>  
> ### change fb1 to whatever number you got in the previous section 
> Option "fbdev" "/dev/fb1" 
> 
>  
> ### change the busid to whatever is reported by lspci. Note that 
> ### output of lspci is hex, so add a preceding "0x" to the BusID 
> BusID "1:0x0a:0" 
> EndSection 
> 
>  
> 
>  
> my /etc/mythtv/modules/ivtv is set to:
>  
> alias char-major-81 videodev 
> alias char-major-61 lirc_i2c 
> #options ivtv debug=1 
> #options tuner type=2 
> options msp3400 once=1 simple=1 
> install ivtv /sbin/modprobe tuner; /sbin/modprobe msp3400; /sbin/modprobe
> saa7115; /sbin/modprobe --ignore-install ivtv 
> remove ivtv /sbin/modprobe -r --ignore-remove ivtv && /sbin/modprobe -r
> saa7115 && /sbin/modprobe -r msp3400 && /sbin/modprobe -r tuner 
> 
>  
> 
>  
> My ivtv init section (I've included the saa7115 messages from after the end
> of the init) from dmesg is:
>  
> Linux video capture interface: v1.00 
> saa7115: starting probe for adapter SMBus nForce2 adapter at 5000 (0x0) 
> saa7115: starting probe for adapter SMBus nForce2 adapter at 5500 (0x0) 
> ivtv: ==================== START INIT IVTV ==================== 
> ivtv: version 0.2.0 (rc3j) loading 
> ivtv: Linux version: 2.6.11.9-chw-2 SMP preempt 586 gcc-3.3 
> 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 350 card 
> ivtv: Found an iTVC15 based chip 
> ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [APC1] enabled at IRQ 16 
> ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:01:0a.0[A] -> GSI 16 (level, high) -> IRQ 16 
> ivtv: Unreasonably low latency timer, setting to 64 (was 32) 
> ivtv: XXX PCI device: 0x01e0 vendor: 0x10de 
> ivtv: i2c attach [client=(tuner unset),ok] 
> tuner 2-0061: chip found @ 0xc2 (ivtv i2c driver #0) 
> msp34xx: ivtv version 
> msp34xx: init: chip=MSP3448W-A2, has NICAM support, simple (D) mode, simpler
> (G) no-thread mode 
> msp34xx: $Id$ compiled on: May 24 2005 00:43:28 
> ivtv: i2c attach [client=MSP3448W-A2,ok] 
> saa7115: starting probe for adapter ivtv i2c driver #0 (0x10005) 
> saa7115: detecting saa7115 client on address 0x42 
> saa7115: writing init values 
> ivtv: i2c attach [client=saa7115[0],ok] 
> saa7115: status: (1E) 0x00, (1F) 0xc0 
> ivtv: i2c attach [client=tveeprom,ok] 
> tveeprom: Hauppauge: model = 48132, rev = K168, serial# = 2947528 
> tveeprom: tuner = LG TAPE H001F MK3 (idx = 68, type = 47) 
> tveeprom: tuner fmt = NTSC(M) (eeprom = 0x08, v4l2 = 0x00001000) 
> tveeprom: audio_processor = MSP3440 (type = 11) 
> ivtv: Tuner Type 47, Tuner formats 0x00001000, Radio: yes, Model 0x00ad1598,
> Revision 0x00000001 
> ivtv: NTSC tuner detected 
> ivtv: Radio detected 
> saa7127: Ignoring new-style parameters in presence of obsolete ones 
> saa7127: video encoder driver version V 0.3 loaded 
> saa7127: detecting saa7127 client on address 0x88 
> saa7127: Selecting NTSC video Standard 
> saa7127: Selecting S-Video+Composite 
> saa7127: Turn WSS off 
> saa7127: Widescreen Mode 4:3 Full Format 
> saa7127: Selecting Normal Encoder Input 
> saa7127: Enable Video Output 
> ivtv: i2c attach [client=saa7127[0],ok] 
> ivtv: Encoder revision: 0x02040011 
> ivtv: Decoder revision: 0x02020023 
> ivtv: Configuring WinTV PVR 350 card with 9 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: Create DMA stream 5 using 16 65536 byte buffers 1048576 kbytes total 
> ivtv: Registered v4l2 device, streamtype 5 minor 16 
> ivtv: Create stream 6 using 1024 2048 byte buffers 262144 kbytes total 
> ivtv: Registered v4l2 device, streamtype 6 minor 228 
> ivtv: Create stream 7 
> ivtv: Registered v4l2 device, streamtype 7 minor 232 
> ivtv: Create DMA stream 8 
> ivtv: Registered v4l2 device, streamtype 8 minor 48 
> ivtv: Setting Tuner 47 
> tuner 2-0061: type set to 47 (LG NTSC (TAPE series)) 
> saa7115: decoder set input (4) 
> saa7115: now setting Composite input 
> ivtv: Setting audio matrix to input 3, output 1 
> ivtv: Switching standard to NTSC. 
> ivtv: ivtv_enc_thread: pid = 3396, itv = 0xf91a3aa0 
> ivtv: ivtv_dec_thread: pid = 3397, itv = 0xf91a3aa0 
> saa7115: decoder set norm NTSC 
> saa7115: set audio: 0x01 
> saa7127: Setting Encoder Video Standard 
> saa7127: Set NTSC Video Mode 
> saa7127: Selecting NTSC video Standard 
> ivtv: Initialized WinTV PVR 350, card #0 
> ivtv: ==================== END INIT IVTV ==================== 
> saa7115: decoder disable output 
> saa7115: decoder set input (0) 
> saa7115: now setting Composite input 
> ivtv: Setting audio matrix to input 1, output 1 
> saa7115: decoder enable output 
> saa7115: decoder set size 
> eth0: no IPv6 routers present 
> saa7115: decoder disable output 
> saa7115: decoder set input (4) 
> saa7115: now setting Composite input 
> ivtv: Setting audio matrix to input 3, output 1 
> saa7115: decoder enable output 
> saa7115: decoder set picture bright=128 contrast=63 saturation=64 hue=0 
> saa7115: decoder set picture bright=128 contrast=63 saturation=63 hue=0 
> saa7115: decoder set picture bright=127 contrast=63 saturation=63 hue=0 
> saa7115: decoder set picture bright=127 contrast=63 saturation=63 hue=0 
> saa7115: decoder disable output 
> ts: Compaq touchscreen protocol output 
> saa7115: decoder enable output 
> 
>  
> 
>  
> Here's the entire XFree86.0.log file
>  
> <deleted so the message would be under 40kb> 
> 
>  Anything else that would be helpful? 
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