On Saturday 09 September 2006 02:59, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hans,
> I guess my real question is this:
> If you have more than one pvr 150 that have different tuners what is
> the proper way to configure the second to use a different tuner than
> the first (maybe an MCE and a non MCE)?
tuner=-1,50
where -1 = autodetect. So the first card is set to autodetect, the
second is forced to tuner 50.
Hans
>
> Let us assume for the sake of argument there is no autodetect at all.
>
> There should be a way to do this but I have not been able to find any
> documentation on the ivtvdriver website, in any of the mailing lists,
> or any other place on the web.
>
> Thanks for the suggestion, please see comments below:
>
> -------------- Original message ----------------------
> From: Hans Verkuil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> > Selec
> >
> > On Friday 08 September 2006 20:52, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > > I have recently installed a second pvr-150 in my myth system and
> > > the second tuner will NOT autodetect. I am running Debian Sarge
> > > 2.6.17 kernel with ivtv 0.7.0. I have upgraded and recompiled
> > > everything including the firmware per your website. In addition
> > > to not autodetecting it will not let me set the tuner via an
> > > options clause in the modprobe, providing the option in the ivtv
> > > file in modprobe.d, or the two distro specific config files.
> > >
> > > The second tuner only gives me a black screen with colored
> > > diagnal streaks. It appears to change channels properly and the
> > > audio comes out as white noise/static.
> > >
> > > Placing a line in modules:
> > > ivtv tuner=50
> > > or
> > > ivtv options tuner=50
> >
> > That should be:
> >
> > options ivtv tuner=50
> >
> > This tuner is autodetected in the upcoming 2.6.18 kernel.
> >
> > Hans
>
> adding the above line to the modules file (not to be confused with
> the /etc/modprobe.d/ivtv file) did nothing. I expected it to throw
> errors on boot as there actually is no module named "options" but it
> did not. It did not load the ivtv driver however until the hotplug
> stuff ran.
>
> I have tried your syntax you suggested above in
the /etc/modprobe.d/ivtv file as stated below in my original post and
it did not work (see below):
> > > only resulted in the driver not finding the firmware file to load
> > > at runtime so nothing works.
> > >
> > >
> > > Here is my dmesg output:
> > > ivtv: ==================== START INIT IVTV ====================
> > > ivtv: version 0.7.0 (tagged release) loading
> > > ivtv: Linux version: 2.6.17-chw-8 SMP preempt mod_unload 586
> > > gcc-3.4 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 WinTV PVR-150 card
> > > (cx23416 based) ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:0a.0[A] -> GSI 18
> > > (level, low) -> IRQ 22 tuner 0-0061: chip found @ 0xc2 (ivtv i2c
> > > driver #0)
> > > cx25840 0-0044: cx25843-23 found @ 0x88 (ivtv i2c driver #0)
> > > cx25840 0-0044: loaded v4l-cx25840.fw firmware (16382 bytes)
> > > wm8775 0-001b: chip found @ 0x36 (ivtv i2c driver #0)
> > > tveeprom 0-0050: Hauppauge model 26052, rev C599, serial# 8805504
> > > tveeprom 0-0050: tuner model is TCL 2002N 5H (idx 99, type 50)
> > > tveeprom 0-0050: TV standards NTSC(M) (eeprom 0x08)
> > > tveeprom 0-0050: audio processor is CX25843 (idx 37)
> > > tveeprom 0-0050: decoder processor is CX25843 (idx 30)
> > > tveeprom 0-0050: has no radio, has IR remote
> > > eth0: no IPv6 routers present
> > > eth1: no IPv6 routers present
> > > ivtv0: loaded v4l-cx2341x-enc.fw firmware (262144 bytes)
> > > ivtv0: Encoder revision: 0x02050032
> > > ivtv0: Allocate DMA encoder MPEG stream: 128 x 32768 buffers
> > > (4096KB total) ivtv0: Allocate DMA encoder YUV stream: 194 x
> > > 10800 buffers (2048KB total) ivtv0: Allocate DMA encoder VBI
> > > stream: 120 x 17472 buffers (2048KB total) ivtv0: Allocate DMA
> > > encoder PCM audio stream: 455 x 4608 buffers (2048KB total) tuner
> > > 0-0061: type set to 50 (TCL 2002N)
> > > ivtv0: Initialized Hauppauge WinTV PVR-150, card #0
> > > ivtv: ====================== NEXT CARD ======================
> > > ivtv1: Autodetected Hauppauge WinTV PVR-150 card (cx23416 based)
> > > ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:0c.0[A] -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ
> > > 17 tuner 1-0061: chip found @ 0xc2 (ivtv i2c driver #1)
> > > cx25840 1-0044: cx25841-23 found @ 0x88 (ivtv i2c driver #1)
> > > cx25840 1-0044: loaded v4l-cx25840.fw firmware (16382 bytes)
> > > wm8775 1-001b: chip found @ 0x36 (ivtv i2c driver #1)
> > > tveeprom 1-0050: Hauppauge model 26132, rev F0B2, serial# 9399761
> > > tveeprom 1-0050: tuner model is TCL M2523_5N_E (idx 112, type 4)
> > > tveeprom 1-0050: TV standards NTSC(M) (eeprom 0x08)
> > > tveeprom 1-0050: audio processor is CX25841 (idx 35)
> > > tveeprom 1-0050: decoder processor is CX25841 (idx 28)
> > > tveeprom 1-0050: has no radio, has IR remote
> > > ivtv1: loaded v4l-cx2341x-enc.fw firmware (262144 bytes)
> > > ivtv1: Encoder revision: 0x02050032
> > > ivtv1: Allocate DMA encoder MPEG stream: 128 x 32768 buffers
> > > (4096KB total) ivtv1: Allocate DMA encoder YUV stream: 194 x
> > > 10800 buffers (2048KB total) ivtv1: Allocate DMA encoder VBI
> > > stream: 120 x 17472 buffers (2048KB total) ivtv1: Allocate DMA
> > > encoder PCM audio stream: 455 x 4608 buffers (2048KB total) tuner
> > > 1-0061: tuner type not set tuner 1-0061: tuner type not set
> > > ivtv1: Initialized Hauppauge WinTV PVR-150, card #1
> > > ivtv: ==================== END INIT IVTV ====================
> > >
> > >
> > > Oddly enough this output was generated with the following
> > > /etc/modprobe.d/ivtv file in place
> > > alias char-major-81 videodev
> > > alias char-major-81-0 ivtv
> > > alias char-major-81-1 ivtv
> > > options ivtv tuner=50
>
> Above is the /etc/modprobe.d/ivtv file which has the correct syntax
> in it as per your recommendation above.
>
> > > This is per your website at
> > > http://www.ivtvdriver.org/index.php/Howto#Module_options
> > >
> > > I have also tried it without the alias lines.
> > >
> > > I have tried the following tuner numbers with no success (per
> > > many different websites):
> > > 0,4,39,43,47,49,50
> > >
> > > I have also tried renaming the above file to
> > > /etc/modprobe.d/ivtv1 to designate the second tuner and have
> > > tried with all the different combinations of tuner numbers.
> > >
> > > Unfortunately I could find no clear documentation on your site as
> > > to the structure of the config file for multiple tuners.
> > >
> > > I then upgraded my knoppmyth distro to R5D1 which was released a
> > > couple weeks ago. With this distro there are two other possible
> > > configuration files. One is the /etc/mythtv/modules/ivtv1 (for
> > > the second tuner) to which I added the same options line as the
> > > /etc/modprobe.d/ivtv file (supposed to be the same syntax). Then
> > > there is the /etc/sysconfig/ivtv/cfg-1 (again the 1 for the
> > > second card) and uncommented out the ivtv_tuner line. Again I
> > > tried with all the different tuner numbers.
> > >
> > > I also made sure all these files contained the same values at all
> > > times. Of course trying for each of the above listed tuner
> > > values.
> > >
> > > I also have made sure I have not used Mythtv to test the tuner. I
> > > have used the command line tools as per your troubleshooting
> > > guide. All with the same results.
> > >
> > > I have checked for IRQ conflicts and there are none. I have even
> > > tried putting the cards in different pci slots but every time I
> > > get the same result.
> > >
> > > I have seen on the list that the tuner type of 4 with an idx of
> > > 112 have been successfully configured and are in use I do not
> > > understand why my system refuses to recognize the second tuner
> > > automatically. I also do not understand why it refuses to be
> > > force configured as many on the list have had to do.
> > >
> > > My first tuner card is unaffected by the upgrade and I can still
> > > watch/record/etc. with the single tuner.
> > >
> > > Andre
> > >
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