Simon Baxter wrote:

>>Does the card always work after _cold_ reboot (unplug power cord for 30
>>seconds to be sure
>>the hardware enters a sane state again) ?
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>No, it doesn't work after a power cycle,
>
Did you also unplug the power cord for 30 seconds ?

30 seconds should be on the sure side to rule out the
PSU's still has some capacitors loaded and providing some power
to hold the hardware in a strange state)

> but the dmesg does change from:
>tveeprom 1-0050: Huh, no eeprom present (err=-121)?
>tveeprom 1-0050: Encountered bad packet header [00]. Corrupt or not a 
>Hauppauge eeprom.
>to:
>tveeprom 1-0050: Ran out of data!
>
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>>Does it always (or sometimes) fail after _warm_ reboot ?
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>Yes, it does fail everytime after after a _warm_ reboot.
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>>If both answers are "yes",  this would confirm the Linux ivtv driver has
>>a serious bug
>>(i.e. it leaves the i2c bus on this card in a state which shows the
>>symptoms you describe)
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>>
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>I don't completely understand the i2c bus thing, but I'm sure we're on to 
>something. 
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