No change here.  Still fails loading cpu firmware.

ESMT
M13S128324A-    5B
AZR1P63BP21    704

-Andrew

On Dec 30, 2007 11:18 AM, Robert Knight <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Greetings, Hans.
>
> I initially tried to use Fedora 8 and a 2.6.23 kernel, but could not get
> it to run as I've previously reported.
>
> I've switched to trying Mythdora 4, with the kernel upgraded to
> 2.6.22.14-72.fc6, as the basis for trying to get the beta driver(s) to
> work for me.  I'm getting the same sort of results that others have
> reported with the previous driver.
>
> This morning, I've tried the driver cx18-1a65fdfd182d.tar.bz2 with near
> identical results.  I got this driver by going to
>
> http://www.linuxtv.org/hg/~hverkuil/cx18/
>
> and clicking the link bz2.
>
> The dmesg data is:
>
> cx18:  Start initialization, version 0.1.0
> cx18-0: Initializing card #0
> cx18-0: Autodetected Hauppauge card
> ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:01:07.0[A] -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 17
> cx18-0: cx23418 revision 01010000 (B)
> tveeprom 1-0050: Hauppauge model 74041, rev C5B2, serial# 2728115
> tveeprom 1-0050: MAC address is 00-0D-FE-29-A0-B3
> tveeprom 1-0050: tuner model is TCL M2523_5N_E (idx 112, type 50)
> tveeprom 1-0050: TV standards NTSC(M) (eeprom 0x08)
> tveeprom 1-0050: audio processor is CX23418 (idx 38)
> tveeprom 1-0050: decoder processor is CX23418 (idx 31)
> tveeprom 1-0050: has no radio, has IR receiver, has IR transmitter
> cx18-0: Autodetected Hauppauge HVR-1600
> tuner 2-0061: chip found @ 0xc2 (cx18 i2c driver #0-1)
> cs5345 1-004c: chip found @ 0x98 (cx18 i2c driver #0-0)
> cx18-0: Disabled encoder IDX device
> cx18-0: Registered device video0 for encoder MPEG (2 MB)
> cx18-0: Registered device video16 for TS (2 MB)
> cx18-0: Registered device video32 for encoder YUV (2 MB)
> cx18-0: Registered device vbi0 for encoder VBI (1 MB)
> cx18-0: Registered device video24 for encoder PCM audio (1 MB)
> tuner-simple 2-0061: type set to 50 (TCL 2002N)
> cx18-0: Initialized card #0: Hauppauge HVR-1600
> cx18:  End initialization
>
> At the point where I try the "cat /dev/video0 > test.mpg", I see:
>
> cx18-0: Mismatch at offset 3010
> cx18-0: Retry loading firmware
> cx18-0: Mismatch at offset 21574
> cx18-0: Failed to initialize on minor 0
>
> from dmesg.
>
> The ESMT IC has this information on it:
>
> ESMT
> M13S128324A-         5B
> AZR1P62U001         704
>
> Regards,
> Robert
>
>
> On 12/30/2007 9:18 AM, Hans Verkuil wrote:
> > On Saturday 29 December 2007 01:21, Andrew Steets wrote:
> >
> >> Hello,
> >>
> >> I am playing with the cx18 driver with a WinTV-HVR 1600.
> >>
> >> I can't seem to get past the cpu firmware load.  I added some debug
> >> statements to the driver to see where it was getting stuck.
> >>
> >> Occasionally I get errors loading the apu firmware.  That looks like
> >> this:
> >>
> >> [ 1749.500856] cx18-0 info: Begin cx18_firmware_init
> >> [ 1749.504247] cx18-0 info: Begin load_apu_fw_direct
> >> [ 1749.513396] cx18-0 info: load segment a00000-a07fff
> >> [ 1749.523014] cx18-0 info: load segment ae0000-ae00ff
> >> [ 1749.523259] cx18-0 info: load segment b00000-b1a65f
> >> [ 1749.549837] cx18-0: Mismatch at offset 18134
> >>
> >> But usually it succeeds after retrying.  That looks like this:
> >>
> >> [ 1751.045638] cx18-0 info: Begin cx18_firmware_init
> >> [ 1751.050283] cx18-0 info: Begin load_apu_fw_direct
> >> [ 1751.054884] cx18-0 info: load segment a00000-a07fff
> >> [ 1751.064483] cx18-0 info: load segment ae0000-ae00ff
> >> [ 1751.064564] cx18-0 info: load segment b00000-b1a65f
> >> [ 1751.099571] cx18-0: loaded v4l-cx23418-apu.fw firmware V00120000
> >> (141200 bytes)
> >>
> >> But then the cpu firmware load always fails with this message:
> >>
> >> [ 1752.595009] cx18-0 info: Begin load_fw_direct: v4l-cx23418-cpu.fw
> >> [ 1752.603761] cx18-0: Mismatch at offset 0
> >>
> >> (I added all the "Begin " messages)
> >>
> >> I believe I have the ESMT memory on the card and I am using the
> >> firmware link from  the cx18 announce message.
> >>
> >> I tried with and with "#if 1" and "#if 0" at line 350 in
> >> cx-firmware.c and I get the same results either way.  I also tried
> >> increasing the sleep from 500ms to 1500ms and still the same result.
> >> It always fails at offset 0 when validating the cpu firmware load.
> >>
> >
> > Please update to the latest cx18 driver and try again. I received some
> > new timings for the memory, so perhaps this one works better. If not,
> > then please mail me the exact ESMT memory type used as printed on the
> > memory chips.
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> >       Hans
> >
>
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