[mythtv-users] Sudden DVB issue
Ian Clark
mrrooster at gmail.com
Thu Jun 5 00:59:46 UTC 2008
Hmm, if the card is missing in lspci that does sound like a hardware issue.
Does moving the card to a different slot help?
Have you tried removing and reinserting the card?
Does your new kernel use ACPI when the old one didn't? (I'm clutching at
straws here.)
2008/6/5 Harry Devine <lifter89 at comcast.net>:
> Harry Devine wrote:
> > Ian Clark wrote:
> >
> >> Hmmm, anything in dmesg, or syslog? (are you using udev or similar, if
> >> not it's possible that the device node is there but the device it
> >> points to isn't.)
> >>
> >> 2008/6/3 Harry Devine <lifter89 at comcast.net
> >> <mailto:lifter89 at comcast.net>>:
> >>
> >> Ian Clark wrote:
> >> > Sounds like your kernel update might not have the right drivers
> >> in it?
> >> >
> >> > Do you have a /dev/video0
> >> >
> >> > if so, does it have the right permissions (ie, can the user
> running
> >> > mythbackend read from it.)
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > 2008/6/3 Harry Devine <lifter89 at comcast.net
> >> <mailto:lifter89 at comcast.net>
> >> > <mailto:lifter89 at comcast.net <mailto:lifter89 at comcast.net>>>:
> >> >
> >> > I have a pcHD5500 card, and noticed in my backend logs
> >> tonight right
> >> > after a scheduled recording started, that I got errors like
> >> this over
> >> > and over:
> >> >
> >> > 2008-06-02 21:49:41.001 NVR(/dev/video0) Error: Resetting and
> >> > re-queueing
> >> > 2008-06-02 21:49:50.884 NVR(/dev/video0) Error: DQBUF ioctl
> >> failed.
> >> > eno: Input/output error (5)
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > It doesn't look like the recording is happening. I look at my
> >> > recordings directory and don't see anything with today's date
> on
> >> > it. I
> >> > don't really know when this started happening, but it
> >> could've been
> >> > happen since I updated some things that came up (updated
> kernel,
> >> > updated
> >> > mythtv packages from atrpms.net <http://atrpms.net>
> >> <http://atrpms.net>, etc.). I'm
> >> > not saying that's it, but
> >> > just wanted to mention that that happened recently.
> >> >
> >> > Any ideas on where I can look to fix this?
> >> >
> >> > Thanks,
> >> > Harry
> >> >
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> >> >
> >> >
> >> >
> >>
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> >> Yep, video0 is there:
> >>
> >> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 6 2008-05-31 17:55 video -> video0
> >> crw-rw----+ 1 root root 81, 0 2008-06-03 07:04 video0
> >>
> >> mythbackend runs as root (as a service), so it looks like it can run
> >> from it to me. That card has an analog portion and an digital
> portion
> >> and is setup by Myth as 2 seperate cards. The analog part I use for
> >> "basic" cable, i.e. 2->99, and the digital portion I use for the
> >> OTA HD
> >> stuff (like ABC HD; channel 231 in my case).
> >>
> >> Thanks,
> >> Harry
> >>
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> >>
> > I do see alot of cx88 timeouts in dmesg:
> >
> > cx88[0]/0: [ffff8100609a1400/0] timeout - dma=0x1f5f4000
> > cx88[0]/0: [ffff8100609a1a00/1] timeout - dma=0x528d4000
> > cx88[0]/0: [ffff8100609a1e00/2] timeout - dma=0x54866000
> > cx88[0]/0: [ffff8100609a1600/3] timeout - dma=0x1f44c000
> > cx88[0]/0: [ffff8100609a1200/4] timeout - dma=0x5489c000
> >
> > My /var/log/messages has similar timeout errors. I do notice that when
> > I run lspci, I don't seem to see my pcHD5500 card any longer, but I'm
> > not sure why that would be. I'm not sure how to tell if udev has done
> > something with it. Also, my kernel is 2.6.24.5-85.fc8 if that helps.
> >
> > Thanks for the help!
> > Harry
> >
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> A little more info on this: when I try to tune an analog station
> (2->99), I get nothing but snow. Any station via DVB (i.e OTA HD
> stations) give me the "You should have gotten a channel lock by now"
> error message. The same kernel error messages seen above are shown in
> /var/log/messages.
>
> Any ideas?
> Harry
>
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