[mythtv-users] PVR-150 shows up as a PVR-250 with IVTV 4.2/3 ? Anyone else have this issue?

Paul Roberts pablorobertos at gmail.com
Thu Feb 23 20:35:53 UTC 2006


Jeff Thurston wrote:

>I've been searching the ivtv list for a while now and have yet to find a 
>solutions, nor get a response so i figured I would try here,
>Using ivtv 0.4.0 from ATRPMS my PVR-150 worked great, now with the 
>upgrade it shows up as a PVR-250, and also fails to work. I get a black 
>screen, and mythbackend locks up whenever I try to use the card.
>
>This is the second tuner in a system with a PVR-350 as well.
>
>Thanks for any help you guys can offer!
>
>
>Also would anyone happen to know what this line means in the ivtv init?
>
>"ivtv1 warning: i2c client addr: 0x21 not found for command 0x40085618!"
>
>-Jeff
>
>/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/
>
>FC4 2.6.15
>
><modprobe.conf>
>alias eth0 b44
>alias snd-card-0 snd-intel8x0
>options snd-card-0 index=0
>options snd-intel8x0 index=0
>remove snd-intel8x0 { /usr/sbin/alsactl store 0 >/dev/null 2>&1 || : ; 
>}; /sbin/modprobe -r --ignore-remove snd-intel8x0
>alias usb-controller ehci-hcd
>alias usb-controller1 uhci-hcd
>alias ieee1394-controller ohci1394
>
># ivtv setup
>alias char-major-81 ivtv
>alias char-major-81-0 ivtv
>alias char-major-81-1 ivtv
>#alias msp3400 msp3400-itvt
>#alias tveeprom tveeprom-ivtv
>#alias tuner tuner-ivtv
>#alias tda9887 tda9887-ivtv
>install ivtv /sbin/modprobe --ignore-install ivtv; /sbin/modprobe ivtv-fb
>
><dmesg>
>ivtv:  ======================  NEXT CARD  ======================
>ivtv1: Autodetected WinTV PVR 250 card (cx23416 based)
>PCI: Enabling device 0000:02:0c.0 (0014 -> 0016)
>ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:02:0c.0[A] -> Link [LNKE] -> GSI 11 (level, 
>low) -> IRQ 11
>ivtv1: Unreasonably low latency timer, setting to 64 (was 32)
>ivtv1: i2c attach to card #1 ok [client=tveeprom, addr=50]
>tuner 2-0061: chip found @ 0xc2 (ivtv i2c driver #1)
>ivtv1: i2c attach to card #1 ok [client=(tuner unset), addr=61]
>spurious 8259A interrupt: IRQ7.
>tveeprom 2-0050: Hauppauge model 26052, rev C199, serial# 8248373
>tveeprom 2-0050: tuner model is TCL 2002N 5H (idx 99, type 50)
>tveeprom 2-0050: TV standards NTSC(M) (eeprom 0x08)
>tveeprom 2-0050: audio processor is CX25843 (idx 37)
>tveeprom 2-0050: decoder processor is CX25843 (idx 30)
>tveeprom 2-0050: has no radio, has IR remote
>ivtv1 warning: i2c client addr: 0x21 not found for command 0x8004646b!
>ivtv1: loaded v4l-cx2341x-enc.fw firmware (262144 bytes)
>ivtv1: Encoder revision: 0x02040024
>ivtv1 warning: Encoder Firmware can be buggy, use version 0x02040011 or 
>0x02050032.
>ivtv1: Allocate DMA encoder MPEG stream: 128 x 32768 buffers (4096KB total)
>ivtv1: Allocate DMA encoder YUV stream: 194 x 10800 buffers (2048KB total)
>ivtv1: Allocate DMA encoder VBI stream: 120 x 17472 buffers (2048KB total)
>ivtv1: Allocate DMA encoder PCM audio stream: 455 x 4608 buffers (2048KB 
>total)
>tuner 2-0061: type set to 50 (TCL 2002N)
>ivtv1 warning: i2c client addr: 0x21 not found for command 0x40085618!
>ivtv1 warning: i2c client addr: 0x21 not found for command 0xc0045627!
>ivtv1 warning: i2c client addr: 0x40 not found for command 0x40086d11!
>ivtv1 warning: i2c client addr: 0x40 not found for command 0x80287610!
>ivtv1 warning: i2c client addr: 0x40 not found for command 0x40287611!
>ivtv1 warning: i2c client addr: 0x40 not found for command 0x40085618!
>ivtv1 warning: i2c client addr: 0x21 not found for command 0x40085618!
>ivtv1 warning: i2c client addr: 0x40 not found for command 0x80287610!
>ivtv1 warning: i2c client addr: 0x40 not found for command 0x40287611!
>ivtv1 warning: i2c client addr: 0x21 not found for command 0x40045613!
>ivtv1 warning: i2c client addr: 0x40 not found for command 0x402c5639!
>ivtv1 warning: i2c client addr: 0x21 not found for command 0x40045612!
>ivtv1 warning: i2c client addr: 0x40 not found for command 0x80287610!
>ivtv1 warning: i2c client addr: 0x40 not found for command 0x40287611!
>ivtv1: Initialized WinTV PVR 250, card #1
>ivtv:  ====================  END INIT IVTV  ====================
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My PVR-250 has been autodetected as a 150 in the past.  The solution I 
found was to put in my /etc/modules.d/ivtv the line:
options ivtv cardtype=2
I think if you have two cards you can just add a comma, like:
options ivtv cardtye=2,1
Look at:  http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/IVTV_Module_Parameters




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