Can you post the INIT IVTV messages and the output of 
ivtvctl --log-status? (run the latter after selecting the Composite 
input).

You can also test with gpio values 0x8000, 0x4000, ..., 0x0100.

Thanks,

        Hans

On Thursday 10 August 2006 22:04, Radu Cristescu wrote:
> Hans Verkuil wrote:
> > Attached is a patch for ivtv-0.6.3. Please apply. It should now
> > detect the card automatically.
> >
> > Now go to the ivtv_card_avermedia_ref_design struct in
> > ivtv-cards.c. Here is defined how the cx2584x chip is wired to the
> > other components. Of interest is only video_inputs. The first entry
> > defines the SVideo input, the second the composite. The composite
> > is easy as there are only 8 possibilities: CX25840_COMPOSITE1 until
> > CX25840_COMPOSITE8. Just try each one in turn.
> >
> > Now, if this doesn't work, then that might indicate that GPIO has
> > to be used in order to select the composite input. In that case try
> > ivtvctl --set-gpio dir=0xffff,val=0xffff and see if that helps.
>
> So far, I'm not so lucky. I tried all all the composite options, but
> no go. Everything I get from /dev/video0 is black in all the cases.
>
> The order of operations went like this:
>
> 1. Apply patch
> 2. make
> 3. load ivtv into the kernel
> 4. ivtvctl -p1 #select Composite input
> 5. cat /dev/video0 >file.mpg
> 6. mplayer file.mpg
> 7. ivtvctl --set-gpio dir=0xffff,val=0xffff
> 8. cat /dev/video0 >file.mpg
> 9. mplayer file.mpg
> 10. unload ivtv
> 11. change the source to use the next IVTV_CX25840_COMPOSITE value
> 12. repeat from step 2 until all composite values are tested.
>
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