On Fri, 2008-11-28 at 15:54 -0500, Andy Walls wrote:
> On Fri, 2008-11-28 at 04:36 +0100, . . wrote:
> > Andy,
> > 
> > I tried this and still got no audio:
> > v4l2-ctl --device=/dev/video0 --set-input=1
> > sleep 5
> > v4l2-ctl --device=/dev/video0 --set-ctrl=audio_mute=0
> > sleep 5
> > v4l2-ctl --device=/dev/video0 --set-input=0
> > sleep 5
> > v4l2-ctl --device=/dev/video0 --set-ctrl=audio_mute=0
> 
> 
> > I am splitting my signal 5 ways with the aid of a signal booster, but
> > when I directly plug in the originating source feed coax cable I still
> > get no audio.
> 
> 
> OK, so there's something going other than the audio standard detection
> microcontroller being picky and signal strength problems.
> 
> 
> > The only 2 things that have changed are:
> > 1) Switched the PVR-150 with a new HVR-1600 both had FM and no IR
> > 2) Ran another coax cable from an empty terminal on my splitter to the
> > HVR-1600, one was already run because of the PVR-150 that was removed
> > 
> > I kind of thought if something turned out to not work it would be with
> > the new HVR-1600 (/dev/video1) not the HVR-1600 that was already in
> > the system that was already working well (/dev/video0).
> 
> My suspicion is PCI bus errors that are going undetected by the driver.
> My recent changes to the driver did 2 things WRT this: eliminated PCI
> read retries for simple reads (they never helped fix things AFACIT) and
> added functions named cx18_write_*expect() which does retries
> conditioned on a mask.  I think that those *expect() functions may be
> missing PCI readback errors if the value they are expecting is all 1's.
> I need to inspect these and fix them if that is going on.
> 
> In the meantime could you leave both cards in the machine and check for
> audio using one card at a time:
> 
> # modprobe -r cx18
> # modprobe cx18 cards=0,-1
> (test card)
> # modprobe -r cx18
> # modprobe cx18 cards=-1,0
> (test card)

Oops.  That's "cardtype=" not "cards="

Regards,
Andy

> If they both work individually, this would be further indication of PCI
> bus errors being the problem.
> 
> 
> My only other guess would be something changed with the tuner driver. My
> HVR-1600 unit with the TCL M2523_5N_E tuner is on my other computer
> downstairs - I'll try to do some testing with that.
> 
> 
> 
> > These logs were made with 2 instances of mplayer running and both tuners 
> > tuned to the same 
> > channel.
> > 
> > Thanks!
> 
> Ah, rats.   I'm sorry, we have different versions of v4l2-dbg.  Can you
> repeat your data collection with explicit register ranges this time?
> 
> # v4l2-dbg -d /dev/video0 -R type=host,min=0x2c40000,max=0x2c409c7
> # v4l2-dbg -d /dev/video1 -R type=host,min=0x2c40000,max=0x2c409c7
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Regards,
> Andy


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