I used xawtv with my old WinTV PCI GO card, so just tried it here.  But I can't 
even cat /dev/video0 and get any output at this point from the PVR-150.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Thomas M. Pluth" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [email protected]
Subject: RE: [ivtv-devel] pvr-150 installation problems
Date: Tue, 28 Dec 2004 02:37:37 -0800

> 
> 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]
> 
> 
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