On Saturday 08 July 2006 19:08, Mito wrote:
> Hello all!
>
> Still having problems here, can't seem to figure this out. I'll sum
> up most all of the troubleshooting that I have done the best I can.
>
> As I said before, everything was working before when running ivtv-6.2
> with kernel 2.4.16. After upgrading to kernel 2.4.17 and ivtv-7.0 I
> no longer have any sound in my recordings.
>
> I just recently purchased my tuner card via ebay not even a month
> ago, and it was supposed to be a PVR-150-MCE. I never thought twice
> about it and was using it as such. During this troubleshooting I
> realized that it is, in fact, a PVR-350-MCE. Good news for me, bad
> news for the ebay seller!
>
> Anyways, that shouldn't make a difference as my understanding is that
> they have practically the same encoder, just that the 150 doesn't
> have a decoder. I'm not using the decoder on this anyways since it's
> in my server and not my frontend, and I don't have the TV/audio out
> cable.
>
> Anyways, here's what I've tried:
>
> I uninstalled (via yum, which is how I installed them originally) all
> ivtv including the modules for both the old ivtv-6.2 and ivtv-7.0. I
> then shutdown and unplugged the power to the machine for 5 minutes or
> so as someone on this list had suggested to let the power drain from
> the tuner. Then I booted it back up and installed ivtv again via the
> same howto I originally followed:
> http://ivtvdriver.org/index.php/Howto:Fedora
>
> That still didn't work, so I replaced the firmware:
> http://ivtvdriver.org/index.php/Firmware#Obtaining_and_Installing_the
>_Firmwa re
>
> Then I tried manually doing a 'modprobe msp3400' which didn't help
> any.
>
> That still didn't work, so I manually renamed the kernel's modules
> pertaining to the tuner and msp3400 and then rebooted again, and it
> still didn't work.
>From the log below it looks like you still have tuner and msp3400
renamed and so they are not loaded. You must do the --log-status test
with these modules loaded! It's especially the msp3400 status I'm
interested in.
Thanks,
Hans
>
> I have checked, yet again, and the problem is *not* on my frontend
> side as I can play my old recordings with sound perfectly fine. The
> problem is not in the myth software, as doing a 'cat video0 >
> test.mpg' results in a video with no sound as well. Here is the
> output of the command Hans requested while doing the mentioned manual
> recording command:
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] mythtv]# ivtvctl --log-status
> ioctl VIDIOC_LOG_STATUS ok
> ivtv0: ================= START STATUS CARD #0 =================
> tveeprom 0-0050: Hauppauge model 48231, rev D133, serial# 727051
> tveeprom 0-0050: tuner model is Temic 4039FR5 (idx 33, type 21)
> tveeprom 0-0050: TV standards NTSC(M) (eeprom 0x08)
> tveeprom 0-0050: audio processor is MSP3435 (idx 10)
> tveeprom 0-0050: has radio
> saa7115 0-0021: Audio frequency: 48000 Hz
> saa7115 0-0021: Video signal: ok
> saa7115 0-0021: Frequency: 60 Hz
> saa7127 0-0044: Standard: 60 Hz
> saa7127 0-0044: Input: normal
> saa7127 0-0044: Output: S-Video + Composite
> saa7127 0-0044: WSS: disabled
> saa7127 0-0044: VPS: disabled
> saa7127 0-0044: CC: disabled
> ivtv0: ================== END STATUS CARD #0 ==================
>
> Here is the related output settings of 'lspci -v'
>
> 02:0a.0 Multimedia video controller: Internext Compression Inc iTVC15
> MPEG-2 Encoder
> Subsystem: Hauppauge computer works Inc.: Unknown device 4800
> Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 169
> Memory at f0000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=64M]
> Capabilities: [44] Power Management version 2
>
> This is all using Redhat FC4, with the current kernel,
> 2.6.17-1.2139_FC4
>
> If anyone could be of help, that would be fantastic!
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Hans Verkuil
> Sent: Saturday, July 01, 2006 5:00 PM
> To: User discussion about IVTV
> Subject: Re: [ivtv-users] No sound after updating to ivtv 7 and
> kernel 2.4.17
>
> On Saturday 01 July 2006 22:46, Mito wrote:
> > Hello to all!
> >
> > First of all, thanks to everyone who will help, as I know how much
> > work it is sometimes to help people.
> >
> > My problem first started a few days ago when I was trying to
> > re-setup my frontend to my MythTV system. In doing so, I decided
> > to do an update to my backend server (which in hindsight, I
> > probably shouldn't have done.). It updated my kernel to version
> > 2.6.17-1.2139_FC4. Well, as I always do when possible, I rebooted
> > my server after doing the update just to make sure things behaved
> > properly, and to let the new kernel be used. I left it at this
> > time, but then a day and a half later I noticed that none of my
> > recordings have been taking place. I do a little troubleshooting
> > and do another yum update, and this time find a new ivtv and
> > ivtv-modules (I used the atrpms to install ivtv originally) so I
> > figure that there is a new version of ivtv for my new kernel, cool,
> > this will fix my problem. Well, it did, kinda. Now I am recording
> > video, which is always nice, but no audio. Just to be sure that it
> > wasn't a MythTV problem, I ran this command:
> >
> > cat /dev/video0 > test.mpg
> >
> > Then I played that file, and sure enough, there's video but no
> > sound. Also to make sure that I wasn't having problems with my
> > sound, I played a recording from before the update, and the sound
> > works perfectly.
> >
> > Then in troubleshooting, I backed up my firmware files and then
> > replaced them via the instructions here:
> > http://ivtvdriver.org/index.php/Firmware#Obtaining_and_Installing_t
> >he _Firmwa re
> >
> > That still didn't work. so now I'm emailing for help, as I need it
> >
> > :-)
> >
> > Here is my dmesg. Thanks in advance for any help you're able to
> > give!
>
> Please provide the output of ivtvctl --log-status while recording a
> program. It should give me some info on the sound.
>
> By the way: can you verify that your card has a saa7114 chip instead
> of a saa7115? I noticed this in your log. It's probably quite an old
> PVR350, right? If you do have a saa7114, then I'd like to ask you
> some tests. Note that this is unrelated to your sound problem, it's
> just an issue with the saa7114 that I'd like to clear up.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Hans
>
> > ivtv: no version for "struct_module" found: kernel tainted.
> > ivtv: ==================== START INIT IVTV ====================
> > ivtv: version 0.7.0 (development snapshot compiled on Thu Jun 29
> > 13:55:05 2006) loading
> > ivtv: Linux version: 2.6.17-1.2139_FC4 mod_unload 686 REGPARM
> > 4KSTACKS gcc-4.0
> > ivtv: In case of problems please include the debug info between
> > ivtv: the START INIT IVTV and END INIT IVTV lines, along with
> > ivtv: any module options, when mailing the ivtv-users mailinglist.
> > ivtv0: Autodetected Hauppauge WinTV PVR-350 card (cx23415 based)
> > ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:02:0a.0[A] -> GSI 22 (level, low) -> IRQ
> > 169 ivtv0: Unreasonably low latency timer, setting to 64 (was 32)
> > tveeprom 0-0050: Hauppauge model 48231, rev D133, serial# 727051
> > tveeprom 0-0050: tuner model is Temic 4039FR5 (idx 33, type 21)
> > tveeprom 0-0050: TV standards NTSC(M) (eeprom 0x08)
> > tveeprom 0-0050: audio processor is MSP3435 (idx 10)
> > tveeprom 0-0050: has radio
> > tuner 0-0061: chip found @ 0xc2 (ivtv i2c driver #0)
> > saa7115 0-0021: saa7114 found @ 0x42 (ivtv i2c driver #0)
> > saa7127 0-0044: saa7127 found @ 0x88 (ivtv i2c driver #0)
> > msp3400 0-0040: MSP3435G-B6 found @ 0x80 (ivtv i2c driver #0)
> > msp3400 0-0040: MSP3435G-B6 supports radio, mode is autodetect and
> > autoselect
> > ivtv0: loaded v4l-cx2341x-enc.fw firmware (262144 bytes)
> > ivtv0: loaded v4l-cx2341x-dec.fw firmware (262144 bytes)
> > ivtv0: Encoder revision: 0x02050032
> > ivtv0: Decoder revision: 0x02020023
> > ivtv0: Allocate DMA encoder MPEG stream: 128 x 32768 buffers
> > (4096KB total) ivtv0: Allocate DMA encoder YUV stream: 194 x 10800
> > buffers (2048KB total) ivtv0: Allocate DMA encoder VBI stream: 120
> > x 17472 buffers (2048KB total) ivtv0: Allocate DMA encoder PCM
> > audio stream: 455 x 4608 buffers (2048KB total)
> > ivtv0: Create encoder radio stream
> > ivtv0: Allocate DMA decoder MPEG stream: 16 x 65536 buffers (1024KB
> > total) ivtv0: Allocate DMA decoder VBI stream: 512 x 2048 buffers
> > (1024KB total) ivtv0: Create decoder VOUT stream
> > ivtv0: Allocate DMA decoder YUV stream: 24 x 43200 buffers (1024KB
> > total) ivtv0: loaded v4l-cx2341x-init.mpg firmware (155648 bytes)
> > tuner 0-0061: type set to 21 (Temic NTSC (4039 FR5))
> > ivtv0: Initialized Hauppauge WinTV PVR-350, card #0
> > ivtv: ==================== END INIT IVTV ====================
>
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