I'm curious... is the top one dying or the bottom one?
 Heat rises.

Abby


--- Justin Walther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> 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 
> ====================
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