I'm getting the "no eeprom present" error message in dmesg when loading the ivtv driver. I have a PVR-150 card, and it worked up until a few days ago when it seems that I experienced a kernel oops or panic. The machine was frozen in X so I couldn't see the console, and sshd didn't respond, so I don't know exactly what happened to it. After the reboot, I couldn't get the card to load.
Gentoo Linux Kernel: 2.6.19-gentoo-r5 IVTV: 0.9.1 This is the dmesg output with NO modprobe options (autodetect): ivtv: ==================== START INIT IVTV ==================== ivtv: version 0.9.1 (tagged release) loading ivtv: Linux version: 2.6.19-gentoo-r5 preempt mod_unload PENTIUM4 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 card (cx23416 based) ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:02:0a.0[A] -> GSI 19 (level, low) -> IRQ 16 ivtv0: loaded v4l-cx2341x-enc.fw firmware (262144 bytes) tveeprom 1-0050: Huh, no eeprom present (err=-121)? tveeprom 1-0050: Ran out of data! ivtv0: Invalid EEPROM ivtv0: Failed to load module tuner ivtv0 warning: Encoder mailbox not found ivtv0 warning: Decoder mailbox not found ivtv0: Error locating firmware. ivtv0: Error -12 on initialization ivtv: probe of 0000:02:0a.0 failed with error -12 ivtv: ==================== END INIT IVTV ==================== The timestamps from start to end range about 45 seconds. Using 'modprobe tveeprom debug=1', and then 'modprobe ivtv newi2c=1': ivtv: ==================== START INIT IVTV ==================== ivtv: version 0.9.1 (tagged release) loading ivtv: Linux version: 2.6.19-gentoo-r5 preempt mod_unload PENTIUM4 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 card (cx23416 based) ivtv0: loaded v4l-cx2341x-enc.fw firmware (262144 bytes) tveeprom 1-0050: Huh, no eeprom present (err=-121)? syslog-ng[5949]: Message length overflow, line is split, log_msg_size=2048 <... tveeprom debug messages snipped and copied here: http://www.privatepaste.com/90QLSJ1HOF ...> tveeprom 1-0050: Not sure what to do with tag [f2] tveeprom 1-0050: Ran out of data! ivtv0: Invalid EEPROM ivtv0 warning: Encoder mailbox not found ivtv0 warning: Decoder mailbox not found ivtv0: Error locating firmware. ivtv0: Error -12 on initialization ivtv: probe of 0000:02:0a.0 failed with error -12 ivtv: ==================== END INIT IVTV ==================== Note the tveeprom debug messages can be found here: http://www.privatepaste.com/90QLSJ1HOF (its way too much data to clutter up the list with...) I then tried it again with newi2c=0: Feb 4 17:36:07 mythika ivtv: ==================== START INIT IVTV ==================== ivtv: version 0.9.1 (tagged release) loading ivtv: Linux version: 2.6.19-gentoo-r5 preempt mod_unload PENTIUM4 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 card (cx23416 based) ivtv0: loaded v4l-cx2341x-enc.fw firmware (262144 bytes) tveeprom 1-0050: Huh, no eeprom present (err=-121)? tveeprom 1-0050: Ran out of data! ivtv0: Invalid EEPROM ivtv0 warning: Encoder mailbox not found ivtv0 warning: Decoder mailbox not found ivtv0: Error locating firmware. ivtv0: Error -12 on initialization ivtv: probe of 0000:02:0a.0 failed with error -12 ivtv: ==================== END INIT IVTV ==================== As you can see, the error messages are mostly the same no matter what options I use for newi2c. This is the output of lspci: ----- # lspci 02:0a.0 Multimedia video controller: Internext Compression Inc iTVC16 (CX23416) MPEG-2 Encoder (rev 01) ----- However, one thing I've noticed, and I don't think it has anything to do with this problem, but I thought I'd point it out just in case, is that there are 3 other cards in my system that are no longer recognized in lspci. They were recognized before the kernel panic happened, but I don't know if that had anything to do with the problem, or if it was an updated package that I installed that is causing it... 02:07.0 Network controller: Unknown device 004c:8400 02:08.0 Network controller: Unknown device 03d0:2103 (rev 02) 02:09.0 Multimedia audio controller: Unknown device 0013:6003 (rev 01) The card itself is recognized with the correct VID/PID, but the device descriptions can't be found for some reason. The first one is my TI-ACX100 wireless network card, which doesn't work. The 2nd one is my sound card, a cs46xx Turtle Beach Santa Cruz 5.1 sound card, which doesn't work. The 3rd one is my HDTV tuner card, a Technisat Airstar2/HD5000 card, which really has never worked properly and I'm ordering a new HD tuner card to see if it works better. My concern is that I'm hoping whatever caused the kernel panic didn't permanently damage my PCI bus and/or those 3 PCI cards. Are there any other suggestions I should look at? I've tried recompiling my kernel with no difference, and I also tried recompiling every portage package on my machine (using 'emerge --deep --emptytree world' to see if that helps, and it didn't. Is it possible that this is a permanent hardware failure? _______________________________________________ ivtv-devel mailing list ivtv-devel@ivtvdriver.org http://ivtvdriver.org/mailman/listinfo/ivtv-devel
