Pluto 2.0.0.38 with PVR-350, no live TV

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I can not get live TV with my PVR-350, just snow.  I'm wondering what driver others are using that have this same Hauppauge card.  Hardware and/or connections are not an issue in my system and I doubt that configuration is either as I have been running KnoppMyth on this system prior to this latest attempt at Pluto.  I even put KnoppMyth back on it to verify that I was doing the Mythtv-setup identical.  So now I'm back to Pluto 2.0.0.38 and MythTV 0.19 and can't get a live TV picture.  Here is what I did (continues below this xterm output). I tried installing ivtv-0.4.3 but using the generic install method it fails with:

login as: root
Using keyboard-interactive authentication.
Password:
Last login: Tue Mar 14 20:29:56 2006
dcerouter_4114:~$ ls
dbootstrap_settings  install-report.template  ivtv-0.4.3  ivtv-0.4.3.tar.gz
dcerouter_4114:~$ cd ivtv-0.4.3
dcerouter_4114:~/ivtv-0.4.3$ make && makeinstall
make -C driver all
make[1]: Entering directory `/root/ivtv-0.4.3/driver'
make -C /lib/modules/2.6.15-pluto-2-686/build M=/root/ivtv-0.4.3/driver modules
make: *** /lib/modules/2.6.15-pluto-2-686/build: No such file or directory.  Stop.
make: Entering an unknown directorymake: Leaving an unknown directorymake[1]: *** [all] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/root/ivtv-0.4.3/driver'
make: *** [all] Error 2

So I tried the Debian install instructions for ivtv but it failed for packages dependencies that could not be met, sorry I don't have a copy of the failed packages at this time.

My last attempt to get the drivers installed was to use pluto-admin and get them from yttron, so that's what I am using now which is what I am getting the snow picture with.

Here is my dmesg tumer output if of any value:

dcerouter_4114:/etc/apt$ dmesg | grep tuner
tveeprom 0-0050: tuner model is LG TAPE H001F MK3 (idx 68, type 47)
tuner 0-0061: chip found @ 0xc2 (ivtv i2c driver #0)
ivtv0: i2c attach to card #0 ok [client=(tuner unset), addr=61]
tuner 0-0061: type set to 47 (LG NTSC (TAPE series))

Thanks for any help,

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Hi,

I can confirm that PVR350 and Pluto and Live tv works for me - but don't know how to help you...

dcerouter_260:~/Plutohome/egroupware$ dmesg | grep tuner
tveeprom 5-0050: tuner model is Temic 4009FR5 (idx 42, type 20)
tuner 5-0061: chip found @ 0xc2 (ivtv i2c driver #0)
ivtv0: i2c attach to card #0 ok [client=(tuner unset), addr=61]
tuner 5-0061: type set to 20 (Temic PAL_BG (4009 FR5) or PAL_I (4069 FR5))

dcerouter_260:~/Plutohome/egroupware$ dmesg | grep tuner
tveeprom 5-0050: tuner model is Temic 4009FR5 (idx 42, type 20)
tuner 5-0061: chip found @ 0xc2 (ivtv i2c driver #0)
ivtv0: i2c attach to card #0 ok [client=(tuner unset), addr=61]
tuner 5-0061: type set to 20 (Temic PAL_BG (4009 FR5) or PAL_I (4069 FR5))
dcerouter_260:~/Plutohome/egroupware$
dcerouter_260:~/Plutohome/egroupware$ dmesg | grep ivtv
ivtv0: Autodetected WinTV PVR 350 card (cx23415 based)
ivtv0: i2c attach to card #0 ok [client=tveeprom, addr=50]
tuner 5-0061: chip found @ 0xc2 (ivtv i2c driver #0)
ivtv0: i2c attach to card #0 ok [client=(tuner unset), addr=61]
saa7115 5-0021: saa7115 found @ 0x42 (ivtv i2c driver #0)
ivtv0: i2c attach to card #0 ok [client=saa7115, addr=21]
saa7127 5-0044: saa7127 found @ 0x88 (ivtv i2c driver #0)
ivtv0: i2c attach to card #0 ok [client=saa7127, addr=44]
ivtv0: i2c attach to card #0 ok [client=MSP4418G-A2, addr=40]
ivtv0: loaded v4l-cx2341x-enc.fw firmware (262144 bytes)
ivtv0: loaded v4l-cx2341x-dec.fw firmware (262144 bytes)
ivtv0: Encoder revision: 0x02050032
ivtv0: Decoder revision: 0x02020023
ivtv0: Allocate DMA encoder MPEG stream: 128 x 32768 buffers (4096KB total)
ivtv0: Allocate DMA encoder YUV stream: 161 x 12960 buffers (2048KB total)
ivtv0: Allocate DMA encoder VBI stream: 80 x 26208 buffers (2048KB total)
ivtv0: Allocate DMA encoder PCM audio stream: 455 x 4608 buffers (2048KB total)
ivtv0: Create encoder radio stream
ivtv0: Allocate DMA decoder MPEG stream: 16 x 65536 buffers (1024KB total)
ivtv0: Allocate DMA decoder VBI stream: 512 x 2048 buffers (1024KB total)
ivtv0: Create decoder VOUT stream
ivtv0: Allocate DMA decoder YUV stream: 20 x 51840 buffers (1024KB total)
ivtv0: loaded v4l-cx2341x-init.mpg firmware (155648 bytes)
ivtv0: Initialized WinTV PVR 350, card #0
ivtv:  ====================  END INIT IVTV  ====================

probably not your problem, but when upgrading ivtv you have to power off machine completely, so new firmware can get loaded...

HTH,

regards,

Rob.

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Knowing that it should work is a good starting point.  Which ivtv firmware did you use? or from ivtv or from another location?  Also what version?

Thanks,

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Knowing that it should work is a good starting point.  Which ivtv firmware did you use? or from ivtv or from another location?  Also what version?

Thanks,

Sadly, I've made quite some compilations of ivtv and I remember that mythtv started to work only some time ago for me (various settings problems). So I'm not sure anymore what I do use on regular binary basis, and what are leftovers from before. But can check for more info if you need any specific infos ...

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dcerouter_260:~$ dpkg -l '*ivtv*'
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed
|/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name                          Version                       Description
+++-=============================-=============================-==========================================================================
ii  ivtv-firmware-2.6.10-4        1-1                           <insert up to 60 chars description>
ii  pluto-ivtv-video-drivers      2.0.0.38                      <insert up to 60 chars description>


HTH,

regards,

Rob.

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Hi all

I have the same problem, but my IVTV looks sligthly different.

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 dcerouter kernel: ivtv:  ==================== START INIT IVTV ====================
 dcerouter kernel: ivtv:  version 0.4.2 (tagged release) loading
 dcerouter kernel: ivtv:  Linux version: 2.6.15-pluto-2-686 preempt 686 gcc-3.3
 dcerouter kernel: ivtv:  In case of problems please include the debug info between
 dcerouter kernel: ivtv:  the START INIT IVTV and END INIT IVTV lines, along with
 dcerouter kernel: ivtv:  any module options, when mailing the ivtv-users mailinglist.
 dcerouter kernel: ivtv0: Autodetected WinTV PVR 350 card (cx23415 based)
 dcerouter kernel: saa7115 2-0021: saa7115 found @ 0x42 (ivtv i2c driver #0)
 dcerouter kernel: ivtv0: i2c attach to card #0 ok [client=saa7115, addr=21]
 dcerouter kernel: saa7127 2-0044: saa7127 found @ 0x88 (ivtv i2c driver #0)
 dcerouter kernel: ivtv0: i2c attach to card #0 ok [client=saa7127, addr=44]
 dcerouter kernel: msp3400 2-0040: MSP4418G-A2 found @ 0x80 (ivtv i2c driver #0)
 dcerouter kernel: msp3400 2-0040: MSP4418G-A2 supports nicam and radio, mode is autodetect and autoselect
 dcerouter kernel: ivtv0: i2c attach to card #0 ok [client=MSP4418G-A2, addr=40]
 dcerouter kernel: tuner 2-0061: chip found @ 0xc2 (ivtv i2c driver #0)
 dcerouter kernel: ivtv0: i2c attach to card #0 ok [client=(tuner unset), addr=61]
 dcerouter kernel: ivtv0: i2c attach to card #0 ok [client=tveeprom, addr=50]
 dcerouter kernel: tveeprom 2-0050: Hauppauge model 48134, rev I242, serial# 2656314
 dcerouter kernel: tveeprom 2-0050: tuner model is Temic 4009FR5 (idx 42, type 20)
 dcerouter kernel: tveeprom 2-0050: TV standards PAL(B/G) (eeprom 0x04)
 dcerouter kernel: tveeprom 2-0050: audio processor is MSP4418 (idx 25)
 dcerouter kernel: tveeprom 2-0050: decoder processor is SAA7115 (idx 19)
 dcerouter kernel: tveeprom 2-0050: has radio, has IR remote
 dcerouter kernel: ivtv0: loaded v4l-cx2341x-enc.fw firmware (262144 bytes)
 dcerouter kernel: ivtv0: loaded v4l-cx2341x-dec.fw firmware (262144 bytes)
 dcerouter kernel: ivtv0: Encoder revision: 0x02050032
 dcerouter kernel: ivtv0: Decoder revision: 0x02020023
 dcerouter kernel: ivtv0: Allocate DMA encoder MPEG stream: 128 x 32768 buffers (4096KB total)
 dcerouter kernel: ivtv0: Allocate DMA encoder YUV stream: 161 x 12960 buffers (2048KB total)
 dcerouter kernel: ivtv0: Allocate DMA encoder VBI stream: 80 x 26208 buffers (2048KB total)
 dcerouter kernel: ivtv0: Allocate DMA encoder PCM audio stream: 455 x 4608 buffers (2048KB total)
 dcerouter kernel: ivtv0: Create encoder radio stream
 dcerouter kernel: ivtv0: Allocate DMA decoder MPEG stream: 16 x 65536 buffers (1024KB total)
 dcerouter kernel: ivtv0: Allocate DMA decoder VBI stream: 512 x 2048 buffers (1024KB total)
 dcerouter kernel: ivtv0: Create decoder VOUT stream
 dcerouter kernel: ivtv0: Allocate DMA decoder YUV stream: 20 x 51840 buffers (1024KB total)
 dcerouter kernel: ivtv0: loaded v4l-cx2341x-init.mpg firmware (155648 bytes)
 dcerouter kernel: tuner 2-0061: tuner type not set
 dcerouter kernel: tuner 2-0061: tuner type not set
 dcerouter kernel: ivtv0: Initialized WinTV PVR 350, card #0
 dcerouter kernel: ivtv:  ====================  END INIT IVTV  ====================


In the end there are 2 messages that I believe are showing a problem, i.e "tuner type not set".

In my syslog messages i get those lines each and every time I try to change to a different channel in MythTv.

Reading around on forums it seems it could be related to some mixed version of ivtv driver, but I did not install anything but ivtv driver that comes with Pluto (that claims to be 0.4.2).

I tried both ivtv firmware from yttron and from ivtvdriver.org with same unlucky result.

Any idea on how get rid of this snow ?
Should  Pluto run with MythTv out of the box, or are there some known issues that may suggest some manual hack?

Thanks and regards
Marco

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Hi all

just after my previous post I made one more attempt ... and this time I was lucky.
I recalled that with kernel 2.6.15 some of the kernel modules can be used instead of the ivtv supplied ones.

Given the fact that in my case tuner module was giving errors, I tried to load tuner.ko from /lib/modules/.../kernel/drivers/media/video (instead of the one in /lib/modules/.../extra).
Things worked like a charm, no more tuner error and now I have Mythtv up and running.

HTH
Marco

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Hi all

just after my previous post I made one more attempt ... and this time I was lucky.
I recalled that with kernel 2.6.15 some of the kernel modules can be used instead of the ivtv supplied ones.

Given the fact that in my case tuner module was giving errors, I tried to load tuner.ko from /lib/modules/.../kernel/drivers/media/video (instead of the one in /lib/modules/.../extra).
Things worked like a charm, no more tuner error and now I have Mythtv up and running.

HTH
Marco

Hi,

I also seem to have tuning problems on my pvr 350. Yesterday I noticed that all my recordings since April are just snow and nothing else. Since I already changed names of modules, I'm nost sure anymore which one is right. I have this :

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dcerouter_260:~$ ls -l /lib/modules/2.6.15-pluto-2-686/extra/tuner*
-rw-r--r--  1 root root 970268 2006-03-27 09:16 /lib/modules/2.6.15-pluto-2-686/extra/tuner.ko
-rw-r--r--  1 root root 970184 2006-02-22 03:27 /lib/modules/2.6.15-pluto-2-686/extra/tuner.ko.old

dcerouter_260:~$ ls -l /lib/modules/2.6.15-pluto-2-686/kernel/drivers/media/video
-rw-r--r--  1 root root 56953 2006-01-31 14:55 /lib/modules/2.6.15-pluto-2-686/kernel/drivers/media/video/tuner.ko.saved


Which tuner.ko works for you ?

Regards,

Rob.

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Hi Rob

the working module (at least for me) is exactly:

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/lib/modules/2.6.15-pluto-2-686/kernel/drivers/media/video/tuner.ko.saved


its size is 56953 and it is dated 2006-01-31.

To be sure to avoid any issue with other missing modules at loading time, I copied it into /lib/modules/2.6.15-pluto-2-686/extra (after renaming the existing one)

I don't know whether this is the most elegant way to solve the issue, nevertheless things are working fine since beginning of april.

HTH
Marco