Hey, Thanks a lot. The link you sent me helped me fix the problem. As a bonus it also seemed to fix my radio (I now have a radio0 under /dev/v4l/ -- although it still doesnt work but thats a different matter).
P.S. I didn't have to download the svn version of ivtv. Regards, ~Danesh On 9/29/05, Cory Papenfuss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Well, I played with my PVR-500 a bit last night. I followed the > thread here: > http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/ivtv/devel/24322?search_string=second%20pvr-500;#24322 > > My card had the 0x60 vs. 0x61 tuners just like the other guy's. > So, I applied the patch that adds the lines: > > TVEEPROM_KERN_INFO("Second (radio) tuner idx %d\n", > eeprom_data[i + 2]); > to tveeprom.c. It does seem to work now. > > I don't know if that helps your problem. In fact, I haven't even > figured out how that patch really does anything... it appears to only > printk() a debug message. > > -Cory > > On Wed, 28 Sep 2005, Cory Papenfuss wrote: > > > I will try to look closer at my card tonight and see if I can see if > > my dmesg log matches anyone else's situation. My trouble is getting the > > machine in the same place as the cable signal and 'net access. > > > > -Cory > > > > On Wed, 28 Sep 2005, Danesh wrote: > > > >> Cory:: > >> > >> Both tuners seem to initialize. > >> > >> > >> Dave:: > >> > >> Under /lib/modules I have > >> > >> -r--r--r-- 1 root root 369K Sep 27 23:07 HcwFalcn.rom > >> -r--r--r-- 1 root root 14K Sep 27 23:07 HcwMakoA.ROM > >> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 25 Sep 27 23:07 ivtv-fw-enc.bin -> > >> /lib/modules/HcwFa > >> > >> md5sums > >> > >> 5f5fa240ada73c3565f5f7de4c7b5138 HcwFalcn.rom > >> 3a4803384f749d644ee1f1ca9dcb12fa HcwMakoA.ROM > >> 5f5fa240ada73c3565f5f7de4c7b5138 ivtv-fw-enc.bin > >> > >> I will try downgrading the firmware to an older version. Is the > >> 0x02040011 version the one on the CD? > >> > >> I can access both tuners fine. Only one gives me nothing but static. I > >> don't know if this is related to a 'vbi: Invalid argument' I get on > >> the terminal when mythfrontend is running. > >> > >> > >> Greg:: > >> > >> Thanks for the pointer. I had it setup this way already. The capturing > >> Im trying to do which is giving me static is using ptune and cat > >> /dev/v4l/video0 > ~/vid0.mpg. The tuner0, tuner1, s-video0, etc > >> doesn't come into it. > >> > >> > >> > >> On 9/28/05, Dave Sherohman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>> On Wed, Sep 28, 2005 at 10:34:40AM -0400, Cory Papenfuss wrote: > >>>> There was a thread about a similar thing on ivtv-devel a week or > >>>> so ago. A friend of mine's PVR-500 and the one I recently purchased has > >>>> the same problem: only tuner1 works... tuner2 is static. I haven't had > >>>> time to work on mine and figure it out. > >>> > >>> Looks to me like Danesh has a different problem... He said he's > >>> getting static from the first tuner (he calls it "video0", you call > >>> it "tuner 1"), while the second works fine. > >>> > >>> I have a problem with mine where the first tuner works fine and the > >>> second tuner returns nothing, though, and haven't been able to get > >>> anything definitive from ivtv-users... Guess I'll have to check out > >>> ivtv-devel and see what I can find there. > >>> > >>>> IIRC, the current theory has to do with i2c not initializing it > >>>> properly and/or the tveeprom module used is the wrong one. I tried > >>>> manually loading the ivtv-based tveeprom on mine last night (rather than > >>>> the kernel one), but no joy. > >>> > >>> Oh, looks like you're affected by the problem under discussion on > >>> ivtv-devel? Do you show a bunch of errors in dmesg that look like > >>> "ivtv warning: i2c client addr: 0x44 not found for command > >>> 0x40046406!"? If so, that's the same problem I have... (Danesh, > >>> OTOH, is definitely having a different problem than I am, since he > >>> initializes without any of those errors.) > >>> > >>>> On Wed, 28 Sep 2005, Danesh wrote: > >>> > >>>>> cx25840: loading /lib/modules/HcwMakoA.ROM > >>>>> ivtv: i2c attach to card #0 ok [client=cx25840, addr=44] > >>>>> ivtv: i2c attach to card #0 ok [client=wm8775, addr=1b] > >>>>> tda9885/6/7: chip found @ 0x86 > >>>>> ivtv: i2c attach to card #0 ok [client=tda9887, addr=43] > >>>>> ivtv: loading /lib/modules/ivtv-fw-enc.bin > >>>>> ivtv: Encoder revision: 0x02050032 > >>>>> ivtv warning: Encoder Firmware can be buggy, use version 0x02040011!!!! > >>> > >>> This is what I would look at first. Are you sure you have the right > >>> firmware binaries in /lib/modules? Here's what I've got in mine: > >>> > >>> -r--r--r-- 1 root root 14264 2005-08-27 20:14 HcwMakoA.ROM > >>> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 262144 2005-08-27 20:12 ivtv-fw-dec.bin > >>> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 262144 2005-08-27 20:12 ivtv-fw-enc.bin > >>> > >>> # md5sum HcwMakoA.ROM ivtv-fw-dec.bin ivtv-fw-enc.bin > >>> 3a4803384f749d644ee1f1ca9dcb12fa HcwMakoA.ROM > >>> 305dba74bbe5905447add8883f3ecb68 ivtv-fw-dec.bin > >>> ab75947ef1b086e26f9b08e628baa02e ivtv-fw-enc.bin > >>> > >>> If yours don't match, you may want to try downloading an older > >>> ivtv-fw-enc.bin/ivtv-fw-dec.bin and see if that helps. (A check of > >>> my dmesg output shows that I'm using revision 0x02040011, as > >>> recommended by the warning you're getting.) > >>> > >>> -- > >>> The freedoms that we enjoy presently are the most important victories of > >>> the > >>> White Hats over the past several millennia, and it is vitally important > >>> that > >>> we don't give them up now, only because we are frightened. > >>> - Eolake Stobblehouse (http://stobblehouse.com/text/battle.html) > >>> > >>> > >>> _______________________________________________ > >>> mythtv-users mailing list > >>> [email protected] > >>> http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users > >>> > >>> > >>> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> mythtv-users mailing list > >> [email protected] > >> http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users > >> > > > > > > -- > > ************************************************************************* > * Cory Papenfuss * > * Electrical Engineering candidate Ph.D. graduate student * > * Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University * > ************************************************************************* > > _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
