Why are you using xawtv? That's for frame grabbers, not MPEG encoders. Try mplayer.
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jim Hammack Sent: Monday, December 27, 2004 9:25 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [ivtv-devel] pvr-150 installation problems I'm trying to install a pvr-150 on an AMD Athlon system running Slackware 10.0 with kernel 2.4.26. I'm using ivtv-0.3.2a (earlier versions locked up when I tried "modprobe ivtv". Modules seem to load okay, but xawtv will seg fault and reloading the firmware with "ivtvctl -H" fails with dmesg reporting: ivtv: FW Reload: Set DEC IRQ Mask! Resetting Firmware!!! ivtv: Sleeping for 10 ms ivtv: Sleeping for 10 ms ivtv: invalid api mailbox ivtv: Decoder firmware dead! ivtv: Firmware not responding, trying mailboxes again ivtv: invalid api mailbox ivtv: Decoder firmware dead! ivtv: Firmware not responding, giving up! ivtv: invalid api mailbox ivtv: Decoder firmware dead! Here's the rest of dmesg output (prior to the firmware reload): ivtv: ==================== START INIT IVTV ==================== ivtv: version 0.3.2 (a) loading ivtv: Linux version: 2.4.26 ivtv: In case of problems please include the debug info ivtv: between the START INIT IVTV and END INIT IVTV lines when ivtv: mailing the ivtv-devel mailinglist. ivtv: Autodetected WinTV PVR 150 card ivtv: Found an iTVC16 based chip ivtv: VIA PCI device: 0x3099 vendor: 0x1106 tveeprom: Hauppauge: model = 26052, rev = C185, serial# = 7579877 tveeprom: tuner = TCL 2002N 6A (idx = 85, type = 50) tveeprom: tuner fmt = NTSC(M) (eeprom = 0x08, v4l2 = 0x00001000) tveeprom: audio_processor = MSP3410D (type = 5) ivtv: i2c attach [client=tveeprom[1],ok] i2c-core.o: client [tveeprom[1]] registered to adapter [ivtv i2c driver #0](pos. 0). saa7127: detecting saa7127 client on address 0x88 saa7127: Selecting NTSC video Standard saa7127: Selecting S-Video+Composite saa7127: Turn WSS off saa7127: Widescreen Mode 4:3 Full Format saa7127: Selecting Normal Encoder Input saa7127: Enable Video Output ivtv: i2c attach [client=saa7127[0],ok] i2c-core.o: client [saa7127[0]] registered to adapter [ivtv i2c driver #0](pos. 1). tuner: chip found @ 0xc2 tuner(bttv): type forced to 2 (Philips NTSC (FI1236,FM1236 and compatibles)) [insmod] ivtv: i2c attach [client=Philips NTSC (FI1236,FM1236 and,ok] i2c-core.o: client [Philips NTSC (FI1236,FM1236 and] registered to adapter [ivtv i2c driver #0](pos. 2). saa7115: starting probe for adapter ivtv i2c driver #0 (0x10005) wm8775: starting probe for adapter ivtv i2c driver #0 (0x10005) wm8775: detecting client on address 0x36 wm8775: writing init values ivtv: i2c attach [client=wm8775[0],ok] i2c-core.o: client [wm8775[0]] registered to adapter [ivtv i2c driver #0](pos. 3). i2c-core.o: adapter ivtv i2c driver #0 registered as adapter 0. ivtv: Encoder revision: 0x02050032 ivtv: Encoder Firmware may be buggy, use version 0x02040011 ivtv: Configuring WinTV PVR 150 card with 4 streams ivtv: Create DMA stream 0 using 256 16384 byte buffers 4194304 kbytes total ivtv: Registered v4l2 device, streamtype 0 minor 0 ivtv: Create DMA stream 1 ivtv: Registered v4l2 device, streamtype 1 minor 32 ivtv: Create stream 2 using 40 52224 byte buffers 2097152 kbytes total ivtv: Registered v4l2 device, streamtype 2 minor 224 ivtv: Create DMA stream 3 using 455 4608 byte buffers 2097152 kbytes total ivtv: Registered v4l2 device, streamtype 3 minor 24 ivtv: Could not detect tuner standard, defaulting to NTSC. ivtv: Switching standard to NTSC. ivtv: Initialized WinTV PVR 150, card #0 ivtv: ==================== END INIT IVTV ==================== and relevant parts of /etc/modules.conf: # WinTV PVR-150 alias char-major-81 videodev alias char-major-81-0 ivtv options ivtv ivtv_debug=1 options tuner type=2 options msp3400 once=1 simple=1 add below ivtv wm8775 msp3400 saa7115 tuner # end I'm also confused about what modules are needed for the 150. I think I need cx25840.o, but I cannot load this module: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/etc# modprobe cx25840 /lib/modules/2.4.26/kernel/drivers/media/video/cx25840.o: unresolved symbol open /lib/modules/2.4.26/kernel/drivers/media/video/cx25840.o: unresolved symbol read /lib/modules/2.4.26/kernel/drivers/media/video/cx25840.o: unresolved symbol close /lib/modules/2.4.26/kernel/drivers/media/video/cx25840.o: insmod /lib/modules/2.4.26/kernel/drivers/media/video/cx25840.o failed /lib/modules/2.4.26/kernel/drivers/media/video/cx25840.o: insmod cx25840 failed Any help would be appreciated. Thanks. Jim Hammack [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------------------------------- SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide Read honest & candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. Discover which products truly live up to the hype. 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