[ATrpms-users] IVTV driver still troublesome

Thu Jun 1 01:50:00 CEST 2006

I was having some problems with the latest ivtv drivers also, until I
remember something I read in one of the mythtv mailing lists long ago; I
turned off my machine and let it set for 15 minutes before rebooting (ie., a
very cold reboot). The drivers worked like a charm. What I had remembered
was a discussion about the various PVR cards keeping previous settings until
really cold booted.

On 5/31/06, Marcel Janssen <korgull at home.nl> wrote:
>
> On Thursday 01 June 2006 01:12, Axel Thimm wrote:
> > > Well, I hope the old firmware is still available.
> >
> > It is, but most people are happier with the new one.
>
> Well, my problems must be not firmware related than.
> It beats the hell out of me, but I'm near to giving up and buy me a
> hardware
> solution or try moving back to old kernel and the IVTV-0.3 driver (was
> rock
> solid for me).
>
> > > I still hope that one day it will get stable like the old 0.3 IVTV
> > > driver, but almost given up on that thought.
> >
> > Maybe your hardware has some issues? This should better be discussedon
> > the ivtv lists, copying ivtv-users. Maybe it would help to post the
> > ivtv logs to identify the model. Eitehr it's someone no one has, and
> > maybe ivtv needs some support for your tuner model, or someone can
> > confirm that this hardware works/works not.
>
> I agree, this may be better to post at the ivtv list.
> As mentioned before, this box worked stable with FC4 and IVTV drivers 0.3
> series. Ever since I moved to FC5 the trouble started.
> What I also see is that sometimes udev won't start, but I don't know if
> that's
> related as even if udev starts successful, ivtv won't work properly.
> I have no other problems than the above on this box.
>
> To describe this issue :
>
> Loading the ivtv driver is not stable. Sometimes it loads the driver at
> boot,
> mostly it fails.
> When it loads and I start mythTV's live TV, I mostly get a black image
> only.
> When I use ivtv-tune -f and set a frequency it shows that it detects no
> signal .
> Only sometimes when I reboot and the ivtv driver loads successfully I get
> real
> live TV. It'll take somewhere between 15-20 reboots to get one successful
> load (but today actually none so far). Once it is working, it will work
> rock
> solid until the next reboot, making me believe that these are only
> initialisation issues of the pvr-350 and there's nothing else wrong with
> my
> hardware.
> Switching off the PC completely between reboots doesn't seem to make any
> difference either.
>
> Some data attached below (state = not working, black image in mythTV)
> If anything else is needed, please let me know.
>
> Regards,
> Marcel
>
> ivtv:  ==================== START INIT IVTV ====================
> ivtv:  version 0.6.2 (development snapshot compiled on Mon May  8 07:35:43
> 2006) loading
> ivtv:  Linux version: 2.6.16-1.2111_FC5 686 REGPARM 4KSTACKS gcc-4.1
> ivtv:  In case of problems please include the debug info between
> ivtv:  the START INIT IVTV and END INIT IVTV lines, along with
> ivtv:  any module options, when mailing the ivtv-users mailinglist.
> ivtv0: Autodetected Hauppauge WinTV PVR-350 card (cx23415 based)
> ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:0d.0[A] -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 18
> tuner 4-0061: chip found @ 0xc2 (ivtv i2c driver #0)
> saa7115 4-0021: saa7115 found @ 0x42 (ivtv i2c driver #0)
> saa7127 4-0044: saa7127 found @ 0x88 (ivtv i2c driver #0)
> msp3400 4-0040: MSP4418G-A2 found @ 0x80 (ivtv i2c driver #0)
> msp3400 4-0040: MSP4418G-A2 supports nicam and radio, mode is autodetect
> and
> autoselect
> tveeprom 4-0050: Hauppauge model 48134, rev J347, serial# 7110286
> tveeprom 4-0050: tuner model is LG TP18PSB01D (idx 47, type 28)
> tveeprom 4-0050: TV standards PAL(B/G) (eeprom 0x04)
> tveeprom 4-0050: audio processor is MSP4418 (idx 25)
> tveeprom 4-0050: decoder processor is SAA7115 (idx 19)
> tveeprom 4-0050: has radio, has IR remote
> ivtv0: loaded v4l-cx2341x-enc.fw firmware (262144 bytes)
> ivtv0: loaded v4l-cx2341x-dec.fw firmware (262144 bytes)
> ivtv0: Encoder revision: 0x02050032
> ivtv0: Decoder revision: 0x02020023
> ivtv0: Allocate DMA encoder MPEG stream: 128 x 32768 buffers (4096KB
> total)
> ivtv0: Allocate DMA encoder YUV stream: 161 x 12960 buffers (2048KB total)
> ivtv0: Allocate DMA encoder VBI stream: 80 x 26208 buffers (2048KB total)
> ivtv0: Allocate DMA encoder PCM audio stream: 455 x 4608 buffers (2048KB
> total)
> ivtv0: Create encoder radio stream
> ivtv0: Allocate DMA decoder MPEG stream: 16 x 65536 buffers (1024KB total)
> ivtv0: Allocate DMA decoder VBI stream: 512 x 2048 buffers (1024KB total)
> ivtv0: Create decoder VOUT stream
> ivtv0: Allocate DMA decoder YUV stream: 20 x 51840 buffers (1024KB total)
> ivtv0: loaded v4l-cx2341x-init.mpg firmware (155648 bytes)
> tuner 4-0061: type set to 28 (LG PAL_BG+FM (TPI8PSB01D))
> ivtv0: Initialized Hauppauge WinTV PVR-350, card #0
> ivtv:  ====================  END INIT IVTV  ====================
> ivtv0: =================  START STATUS CARD #0  =================
> tveeprom 4-0050: Hauppauge model 48134, rev J347, serial# 7110286
> tveeprom 4-0050: tuner model is LG TP18PSB01D (idx 47, type 28)
> tveeprom 4-0050: TV standards PAL(B/G) (eeprom 0x04)
> tveeprom 4-0050: audio processor is MSP4418 (idx 25)
> tveeprom 4-0050: decoder processor is SAA7115 (idx 19)
> tveeprom 4-0050: has radio, has IR remote
> tuner 4-0061: Tuner mode:      radio
> tuner 4-0061: Frequency:       0.40 MHz
> tuner 4-0061: Standard:        0x000000ff
> tuner 4-0061: Signal strength: 16384
> tuner 4-0061: Stereo:          no
> saa7115 4-0021: Audio frequency: 48000 Hz
> saa7115 4-0021: Input:           Composite 4
> saa7115 4-0021: Video signal:    bad
> saa7115 4-0021: Frequency:       50 Hz
> saa7115 4-0021: Detected format: BW/No color
> saa7127 4-0044: Standard: 50 Hz
> saa7127 4-0044: Input:    normal
> saa7127 4-0044: Output:   S-Video + Composite
> saa7127 4-0044: WSS:      disabled
> saa7127 4-0044: VPS:      disabled
> saa7127 4-0044: CC:       disabled
> msp3400 4-0040: MSP4418G-A2 rev1 = 0x0117 rev2 = 0x1242
> msp3400 4-0040: Audio:    volume 58880
> msp3400 4-0040: Mode:     AM (for carrier detect)
> msp3400 4-0040: Standard: could not detect sound standard (mono)
> msp3400 4-0040: ACB:      0x0c00
> ivtv0: ==================  END STATUS CARD #0  ==================
>
>
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Gary McClellan
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