My long-running VIA EPIA MythTV system crashed the other day due to an HDD failure - pretty good reliability for 5 years use. Luckily I had a fairly recent image of the disc and restored this to another HDD. But this image was almost a year old and I had replaced the PVR-350 card in this system since then when the tuner started drifting radically. When I changed the card, I had issues with IVTV 0.4.x and upgraded both my kernel and IVTV at the time. Worked great, but like I said, I lost the HDD about a year later.
So, I find myself retracing my steps and having been trying to upgrade to kernel 2.6.20 with IVTV 0.10.4, following the instructions on the site. But I'm getting some pretty fundamental errors with IVTV: Linux video capture interface: v2.00 ivtv: ==================== START INIT IVTV ==================== ivtv: version 0.10.4 (tagged release) loading ivtv: Linux version: 2.6.20.081707 preempt mod_unload CYRIXIII 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 (cx23415 based) ivtv0: Unreasonably low latency timer, setting to 64 (was 32) ivtv0: loaded v4l-cx2341x-enc.fw firmware (376836 bytes) ivtv0: loaded v4l-cx2341x-dec.fw firmware (262144 bytes) ivtv0: Retry loading firmware ivtv0: loaded v4l-cx2341x-enc.fw firmware (376836 bytes) ivtv0: loaded v4l-cx2341x-dec.fw firmware (262144 bytes) ivtv0: Error initializing firmware ivtv0: Error -19 on initialization ivtv: ==================== END INIT IVTV ==================== After this, things go really bad with a kernel oops which I suspect may be related to the firmware issue. The rest of the system appears to boot normally. Nothing IVTV specific in modules.conf, by the way. I did download the recommended firmware package and install it, it looks like it's all there: ~# ls -l /usr/lib/hotplug/firmware -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 262144 2007-08-18 17:08 v4l-cx2341x-dec.fw -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 376836 2007-08-18 17:07 v4l-cx2341x-enc.fw -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 155648 2007-08-18 17:08 v4l-cx2341x-init.mpg -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 16382 2007-08-18 17:07 v4l-cx25840.fw Like most IVTV issues I've banging away on this for a while trying to chase down why the firmware won't apparently load. I even took the extreme step of putting the card in a Windows system and running the firmware update that way. Everything seems to be fine. Since the card worked before, I irrationally assume it should work again. I haven't seen a lot of -19 errors in the archives and I'm looking for some guidance on how to troubleshoot this - anybody have any bright ideas or even inspired guesses? Phil
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