On Sunday 08 February 2009 03:17:47 pm Andy Walls wrote: [snip] > > How does line in analog audio sound when you use Composite or SVideo > in? I'm afraid I don't have any appropriate devices immediately available, but I'll see if I can find something. > > > It does seem that my cable company may have made changes that coincided > > with this power outage because suddenly my cable quality seems to have > > improved signficantly on my PVR150 that's still working. Not sure > > whether that could be related. I was also running a 2.6.24 kernel > > previously when this was working but now I'm on 2.6.27 because I did an > > update to make sure I had the newest versions of everything after it quit > > working. > > The newer kernel do something different with the PCI bus, that can cause > a lot more PCI bus errors to happen at bootup (the bus is busier). This > in turn can cause some cx18 register settings related to audio to fail. > > You really do need to try the AUDIO_ENABLE register related fix I have > at my cx18 repo. I tried this, but I seem to be hitting the I2C_DRIVERID_TVMIXER error that I believe you are already aware of. Since it appears your audio changes went in after the change that caused it I can't get them built. Is there a workaround? > > You can also try unloading the cx18 module, or prevent it from loading > at boot up with a blacklist option in modprobe.conf, and load it when > the bus is rather quiet. If it works in that case, you may want to take > out your PCI cards, blow the dust out of the slots and re-install the > cards (take antistatic discharge precautions of course). This will > often improve PCI bus signals that have degraded, as the PCI bus relies > on both the incident and reflected voltage wave to reach the proper > signalling level on the lines. I tried this as well, but still no luck.
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