On Tue, 2007-02-01 at 21:55 -0500, Justin Walther wrote: > Hey folks, > I posted this over at mythtv-users as well. > > Have a very strange issue. Rebuilt my mythbox after running fine for > a few years on an older system.
I think this is where the problem is. The 250 gets hot. It behaves funny when it is hot. Did the older box have better cooling or more ventilation around each of the cards? Perhaps you can try to separate the cards and try that. Preet > I have 2 PVR250 cards. I can cat /dev/video0 > test0.mpg and cat > /dev/video1 > test1.mpg and that works fine after powering on the box. > However, once I start up mythbackend and start a recording on both > tuners, /dev/video0 records just a blank static signal. Video1 works just > fine. If I then kill mythbackend and retry my cat /dev/video0 > > test0.mpg, I get a blank signal until I either reboot the server or > reload ivtv. > > In addition, sometimes starting a recording on both tuners manually > allows them both to work until the next regularly scheduled recording > starts and then neither tuner works. > > If I restart ivtv and then start myth and go directly into livetv, i > can usually get both tuners to work but then when the next regularly > scheduled recording starts, both cards just record static until I > reload ivtv. > > As an aside, way back when I built my first myth box using ivtv2.x i > believe, I had to use an options tuner= line in modprobe.conf that was > different for each tuner. For some reason, one of the tuners didn't > autodetect correct even though their serial numbers are only like 50 > apart. Not sure if this info is pertinent. > > Here are my system specs: > Intel WGH965 Mobo > Core 2 Duo proc > 2 PVR-250 cards from several years ago > Running Fedora Core 6 x64 > Installed using Jerod's guideivtv: ==================== START INIT > IVTV ==================== > ivtv: version 0.8.2 (tagged release) loading > ivtv: Linux version: 2.6.18-1.2869.fc6 SMP mod_unload gcc-4.1 > 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 card (cx23416 based) > PCI: Enabling device 0000:06:00.0 (0010 -> 0012) > ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:06:00.0[A] -> Link [LNKF] -> GSI 10 (level, low) -> > IRQ > 10 > ivtv0: loaded v4l-cx2341x-enc.fw firmware (262144 bytes) > tuner 1-0061: chip found @ 0xc2 (ivtv i2c driver #0) > saa7115 1-0021: saa7115 found @ 0x42 (ivtv i2c driver #0) > msp3400 1-0040: MSP3445G-B8 found @ 0x80 (ivtv i2c driver #0) > msp3400 1-0040: MSP3445G-B8 supports radio, mode is autodetect and autoselect > tveeprom 1-0050: Hauppauge model 32062, rev B185, serial# 7363320 > tveeprom 1-0050: tuner model is TCL 2002N 6A (idx 85, type 50) > tveeprom 1-0050: TV standards NTSC(M) (eeprom 0x08) > tveeprom 1-0050: audio processor is MSP3445 (idx 12) > tveeprom 1-0050: decoder processor is SAA7115 (idx 19) > tveeprom 1-0050: has no radio, has IR remote > ivtv0: Autodetected Hauppauge WinTV PVR-250 > ivtv0: Encoder revision: 0x02050032 > ivtv0: Registered device video0 for encoder MPEG > ivtv0: Registered device video32 for encoder YUV > ivtv0: Registered device vbi0 for encoder VBI > ivtv0: Registered device video24 for encoder PCM audio > tuner 1-0061: type set to 50 (TCL 2002N) > ivtv0: Initialized Hauppauge WinTV PVR-250, card #0 > ivtv: ====================== NEXT CARD ====================== > ivtv1: Autodetected Hauppauge card (cx23416 based) > PCI: Enabling device 0000:06:01.0 (0010 -> 0012) > ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:06:01.0[A] -> Link [LNKG] -> GSI 9 (level, low) -> > IRQ > 9 > ivtv1: loaded v4l-cx2341x-enc.fw firmware (262144 bytes) > tuner 2-0061: chip found @ 0xc2 (ivtv i2c driver #1) > saa7115 2-0021: saa7115 found @ 0x42 (ivtv i2c driver #1) > msp3400 2-0040: MSP3445G-B8 found @ 0x80 (ivtv i2c driver #1) > msp3400 2-0040: MSP3445G-B8 supports radio, mode is autodetect and autoselect > tveeprom 2-0050: Hauppauge model 32062, rev B185, serial# 7363128 > tveeprom 2-0050: tuner model is TCL 2002N 6A (idx 85, type 50) > tveeprom 2-0050: TV standards NTSC(M) (eeprom 0x08) > tveeprom 2-0050: audio processor is MSP3445 (idx 12) > tveeprom 2-0050: decoder processor is SAA7115 (idx 19) > tveeprom 2-0050: has no radio, has IR remote > ivtv1: Autodetected Hauppauge WinTV PVR-250 > ivtv1: Encoder revision: 0x02050032 > ivtv1: Registered device video1 for encoder MPEG > ivtv1: Registered device video33 for encoder YUV > ivtv1: Registered device vbi1 for encoder VBI > ivtv1: Registered device video25 for encoder PCM audio > tuner 2-0061: type set to 50 (TCL 2002N) > ivtv1: Initialized Hauppauge WinTV PVR-250, card #1 > ivtv: ==================== END INIT IVTV ==================== > > _______________________________________________ > ivtv-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://ivtvdriver.org/mailman/listinfo/ivtv-users _______________________________________________ ivtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://ivtvdriver.org/mailman/listinfo/ivtv-users
