Hi,

I have the same problem with 2 PVR-350s.

I recently built a new server with an Intel D805 (dual core) and an MSI
mainboard with an Intel845 chipset. Installed it with FC5,
2.6.17-1.2174smp and the ivtv bundles from atrpms.

The PVRs just don't want to play nice in this system; they've been working
fine for years in my old debian based system.

To me it looks like a timing issue, possibly with the interaction between
udev and ivtv: 4 out of 5 times the system just hangs when starting udev.
The one time it does start, I get exactly the same errors as shown in the
thread: firmware file not found. The weird thing is: often the first PVR
loads fine, but the second one gives the error message (on a file that was
succesfully used just a split second earlier).

the 1 in 20 reboots that do manage to initialise the PVRs, they work fine,
until I get a DMA error which requires a reboot to fix, so while story
starts again...

Yesterday I took an old Pentium-II box and installed it with exactly the
same stuff as my new box and placed both PVRs in it.

And guess what: it all works perfectly... Haven't had time to do any real
testing, but I have done several reboots and each time the PVRs
initialised without a glitch...

Suggestions anyone???

Regards,
Stanley.



> I've also been having problems with the 2.6.17-1.2174 kernel (though I'm
> using the standard version, not the smp version). I've tried it with both
> the latest version from the 0.7 branch in subversion and with the
> ivtv-kmdl
> kernel module from atrpms, neither work.
>
> Regards
> David
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Daniel Parish
> Sent: 06 September 2006 22:30
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: [ivtv-users] pvr-150, ivtv-0.7.0,and FC5 kernel-2.6.17-1 won't
> play
> nice
>
> Hi,
>
> I have a pvr-150 that appears to be reliably and properly recognized as
> evidenced by the output from lspci -v.  The box is running FC5 with a
> custom
> kernel, basically kernel.org sources with a configuration that is
> essentially Fedora's kernel config-2.6.17-1.2174_FC5smp.
>
> I'm using ivtv-0.7.0 with the latest firmware files installed in
> /lib/firmware, but they are not reliably recognized when I modprobe ivtv.
> Sometimes I can get the ivtv module to load, sometimes I can't, but even
> when it does, attempting 'cat /dev/video0 >a.mpg' gives a "no such device"
> or some similar error.  Log extracts:
>
> kernel: ivtv:  ==================== START INIT IVTV ====================
> kernel: ivtv:  version 0.7.0 (tagged release) loading
> kernel: ivtv:  Linux version: 2.6.17.11-c1 SMP mod_unload 686 REGPARM
> 4KSTACKS gcc-4.1
> kernel: ivtv:  In case of problems please include the debug info between
> kernel: ivtv:  the START INIT IVTV and END INIT IVTV lines, along with
> kernel: ivtv:  any module options, when mailing the ivtv-users
> mailinglist.
> kernel: ivtv0: Autodetected Hauppauge WinTV PVR-250 card (cx23415 based)
> kernel: ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:03:08.0[A] -> Link [LNK3] -> GSI 5
> (level,
> low) -> IRQ 5
> kernel: tuner 3-0061: chip found @ 0xc2 (ivtv i2c driver #0)
> kernel: saa7115 3-0021: saa7115 found @ 0x42 (ivtv i2c driver #0)
> kernel: msp3400 3-0040: MSP3435G-B6 found @ 0x80 (ivtv i2c driver #0)
> kernel: msp3400 3-0040: MSP3435G-B6 supports radio, mode is autodetect and
> autoselect
> kernel: tveeprom 3-0050: Hauppauge model 48011, rev F310, serial#
> 5193118
> kernel: tveeprom 3-0050: tuner model is Philips FI1236 MK2 (idx 10, type
> 2)
> kernel: tveeprom 3-0050: TV standards NTSC(M) (eeprom 0x08)
> kernel: tveeprom 3-0050: audio processor is MSP3435 (idx 10)
> kernel: tveeprom 3-0050: has radio
> firmware_helper[4409]: Loading of /lib/firmware/v4l-cx2341x-enc.fw for
> ivtv
> driver failed: No such file or directory
> kernel: ivtv0: loaded v4l-cx2341x-enc.fw firmware (262144 bytes)
> firmware_helper[4411]: Loading of /lib/firmware/v4l-cx2341x-dec.fw for
> ivtv
> driver failed: No such device
> kernel: ivtv0: loaded v4l-cx2341x-dec.fw firmware (262144 bytes)
> kernel: ivtv0: Encoder revision: 0x02050032
> kernel: ivtv0: Decoder revision: 0x02020023
> kernel: ivtv0: Allocate DMA encoder MPEG stream: 128 x 32768 buffers
> (4096KB
> total)
> kernel: ivtv0: Allocate DMA encoder YUV stream: 194 x 10800 buffers
> (2048KB
> total)
> kernel: ivtv0: Allocate DMA encoder VBI stream: 120 x 17472 buffers
> (2048KB
> total)
> kernel: ivtv0: Allocate DMA encoder PCM audio stream: 455 x 4608 buffers
> (2048KB total)
> kernel: ivtv0: Create encoder radio stream
> kernel: tuner 3-0061: type set to 2 (Philips NTSC (FI1236,FM1236 and
> compatibles))
> kernel: ivtv0: Initialized Hauppauge WinTV PVR-250, card #0
> kernel: ivtv:  ====================  END INIT IVTV  ====================
>
> So I rmmod'd and then re-modprobed ivtv...
>
> kernel: ivtv:  ==================== START INIT IVTV ====================
> kernel: ivtv:  version 0.7.0 (tagged release) loading
> kernel: ivtv:  Linux version: 2.6.17.11-c1 SMP mod_unload 686 REGPARM
> 4KSTACKS gcc-4.1
> kernel: ivtv:  In case of problems please include the debug info between
> kernel: ivtv:  the START INIT IVTV and END INIT IVTV lines, along with
> kernel: ivtv:  any module options, when mailing the ivtv-users
> mailinglist.
> kernel: ivtv0: Autodetected Hauppauge WinTV PVR-250 card (cx23415 based)
> kernel: ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:03:08.0[A] -> Link [LNK3] -> GSI 5
> (level,
> low) -> IRQ 5
> kernel: tuner 3-0061: chip found @ 0xc2 (ivtv i2c driver #0)
> kernel: saa7115 3-0021: saa7115 found @ 0x42 (ivtv i2c driver #0)
> kernel: msp3400 3-0040: MSP3435G-B6 found @ 0x80 (ivtv i2c driver #0)
> kernel: msp3400 3-0040: MSP3435G-B6 supports radio, mode is autodetect and
> autoselect
> kernel: tveeprom 3-0050: Hauppauge model 48011, rev F310, serial#
> 5193118
> kernel: tveeprom 3-0050: tuner model is Philips FI1236 MK2 (idx 10, type
> 2)
> kernel: tveeprom 3-0050: TV standards NTSC(M) (eeprom 0x08)
> kernel: tveeprom 3-0050: audio processor is MSP3435 (idx 10)
> kernel: tveeprom 3-0050: has radio
> firmware_helper[4573]: Loading of /lib/firmware/v4l-cx2341x-enc.fw for
> ivtv
> driver failed: No such file or directory
> kernel: ivtv0: loaded v4l-cx2341x-enc.fw firmware (262144 bytes)
> kernel: firmware_loading_store: unexpected value (0)
> kernel: ivtv0: unable to open firmware v4l-cx2341x-dec.fw
> kernel: ivtv0: did you put the firmware in the hotplug firmware directory?
> kernel: ivtv0 warning: failed loading decoder firmware
> kernel: ivtv0 warning: Error loading firmware -1!
> kernel: ivtv0: Error -1 initializing firmware.
> kernel: ivtv0: Error -12 on initialization
> kernel: ivtv: probe of 0000:03:08.0 failed with error -12
> kernel: ivtv:  ====================  END INIT IVTV  ====================
>
> I can rmmod and then re-modprobe ivtv multiple times although doing so
> eventually causes a system freeze.
>
> One additional observation is that with the pvr-150 installed, but _not_
> the
> ivtv modules, something happens that prevents videos and sound from
> playing
> properly after about 10-15 minutes, ultimately freezing xine or mplayer,
> which must then be kill -9'd from the commandline. This behavior goes away
> when the card is removed and returns when the card is installed.
>
> Question: Should this setup work and might this behavior be the result of
> a
> bad card?  Other ideas?
>
> Thanks.
>
> Daniel
>
>
> --
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>
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