[mythtv-users] New 10.10 Setup, Issue with PVR-250

[James Oltman]

So I turned on my front end yesterday morning and it was asking me for the
backend DB.  I was not happy, mostly because I was home sick with a horrible
sinus infection and upper respiratory infection.  But I digress.  I checked
out the BE and I performed a successful reboot.  On boot up, the hard drive
spit out tons of errors.  It was dead.  So I decided, why not load up
MythBuntu 10.10.  I downloaded the 32 bit ISO, and attempted to install it
on a new HDD in the old system.  Specs:

Asus A7N8X-E Dlx
2500+ AMD
2GB RAM
250GB SATA OS
500 GB SATA storage
PVR-350
PVR-250

The OS installed fine.  On first boot, the machine would always hang.  I
managed to see some issues with IVTV.  Something about TVEEPROM can not
autodetect card.  So I took the 250 out, and was still getting this
message.  I tried to reinstall with the 250 out, and still received the
message.  Then I took out the 350 and reinstalled, and the box would never
complete it's first boot, but I can't be sure if I got the same message.  No
matter how long I let it sit.  I couldn't tell you if the message ever came
up again, because I couldn't hit escape on the keyboard and see the boot
messages.  I gave up on the mythbuntu, and tried a full 10.10 install.  That
finally booted.  I then put the cards back in, and received the TVEEPROM
message again, but the machine booted.  I'm having issues getting MythTV to
talk to the DB, that'll be a separate thread.  In DMESG, I receive these
messages a LOT.

[11417.204343] tuner 2-0061: tuner type not set
[11417.209605] wm8775 2-001b: I2C: cannot write 0c0 to register R21
[11417.216743] wm8775 2-001b: I2C: cannot write 1d4 to register R14
[11417.219603] wm8775 2-001b: I2C: cannot write 1d4 to register R15
[11417.226097] wm8775 2-001b: I2C: cannot write 102 to register R21

Over and over.  MythTV sees the 250 card as a 150.  So something is def
wrong.  Here is the relevant output of lspci

01:08.0 Multimedia video controller: Internext Compression Inc iTVC16
(CX23416) MPEG-2 Encoder (rev 01)
01:09.0 Multimedia video controller: Internext Compression Inc iTVC15 MPEG-2
Encoder (rev 01)

After grepping /var/log/messages, I can see that at one point, the card was
detected correctly:

Jan  6 19:30:56 mythbackend kernel: [    9.346736] ivtv0: Autodetected
Hauppauge card (cx23416 based)
Jan  6 19:30:56 mythbackend kernel: [    9.399224] tveeprom 2-0050:
Hauppauge model 32062, rev B185, serial# 7367099
Jan  6 19:30:56 mythbackend kernel: [    9.399247] ivtv0: Autodetected
Hauppauge WinTV PVR-250
Jan  6 19:30:56 mythbackend kernel: [   10.612786] ivtv0: Initialized card:
Hauppauge WinTV PVR-250

Then, later it got all hosed up:

Jan  6 20:27:59 mythbackend kernel: [   11.942067] ivtv0: Autodetected
Hauppauge card (cx23416 based)
Jan  6 20:27:59 mythbackend kernel: [   11.995208] tveeprom 2-0050:
Encountered bad packet header [ff]. Corrupt or not a Hauppauge eeprom.
Jan  6 20:27:59 mythbackend kernel: [   13.779319] ivtv0: Initialized card:
Hauppauge WinTV PVR-150

Any thoughts on how to correct this?  Or is the card shot?  Thanks for the
help!

Jim
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