I guess it could be heat as I have both cards side by side in the case but this is a SUPER cooling case (antec with 3 case fans plus the power supply segregated into the lower part of the case) and my previous case where I had things working fine was an antec aria (tiny mini-ATX case with bad cooling).
On 1/2/07, Preet Khalsa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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 moreI > 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 > _______________________________________________ ivtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://ivtvdriver.org/mailman/listinfo/ivtv-users
