Andy Walls wrote:
> Jim Kusznir wrote:
>
>> The problem materializes either as video with a very heavy red/back
>> static and no audio, a black screen with "little splotches" of static
>> (with a red bias), or a fairly clear picture with no audio. I've gone
>> through the logs, and the initialization looked normal except for 1
>> line late in the boot (after the begin/end initialization) that
>> complained about firmware for v4l-cx25840 load failed.
>
> The cx2584[0123] is the broadcast video/audio digitizer. It takes the
> analog signals, syncs to them, and converts them to digital samples. If
> you can't load the firmware for one of those, it's a miracle you're
> getting anything. You may be getting partially through load of the
> firmware but it fails before completion.
The firmware for that is only used for audio detection, which explains
the no audio part. Maybe a general i2c send failure is what's at the root.
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