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dw

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From: Vienna, Austria

Registered: 2006-11-25

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hauppauge pvr-150, ivtv included in kernel

Hi everyone.

I've built a little htpc based on arch using a pvr-150 tv-tuner card which was worked well after i installed ivtv from extra. However, ivtv is now included in the kernel and I've problems watching tv in mythtv since then.

The strange thing is, that cat /var/log/kern.log |grep ivtv looks normal, that means the pvr-150 seems to be discovered and initialized correctly. however, there are some modules loaded that haven't been loaded before.

My question: Is anyone using a  pvr-150 in arch successfully with newest kernel and without ivtv installed seperately? Do I have to include some options in /etc/modprobe.conf?

Thx for your help guys!
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Re: hauppauge pvr-150, ivtv included in kernel

I have a pvr-150, but I am not running mythTV. As of now I'm running mplayer pvr:// with this line in my .mplayer/config

tv = driver=v4l2:width=640:height=480:outfmt=i420:norm=NTSC-M

Can you post your dmesg output? also do you have ivtv-utils package installed. It contains the firmware. What does mythTV say when it crashes?

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dw

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From: Vienna, Austria

Registered: 2006-11-25

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Re: hauppauge pvr-150, ivtv included in kernel

I have a pvr-150, but I am not running mythTV. As of now I'm running mplayer pvr:// with this line in my .mplayer/config

tv = driver=v4l2:width=640:height=480:outfmt=i420:norm=NTSC-M

Can you post your dmesg output? also do you have ivtv-utils package installed. It contains the firmware. What does mythTV say when it crashes?

Hi there. Thx a lot for your input.

I've ivtv-utils installed. The problem with mythtv is _not_ that it is crashing. I even have image and sound. The problem is, that the live-tv stream is flickering all the time on every channel.

I am pretty sure that it has something to do with the pvr-150 card. I've another card (hauppauge pci-fm using bttv module) in the htpc which displays the tv-stream perfectly. So I'm pretty sure as well that the tv-channels are configured correctly.

I'll post the output of dmesg as soon as I get home from work!

dw

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Re: hauppauge pvr-150, ivtv included in kernel

Furthermore, what I forgot to write. I know the card itself is ok because yesterday I tried the card on a pc running windows and I had no problem with flickering tv.

dw

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Re: hauppauge pvr-150, ivtv included in kernel

Sorry for being late, but this is the output of the kernel log with the important lines regarding the initialization of the pvr-150.

==================== START INIT IVTV====================
Aug 26 18:37:19 Mozart ivtv: version 1.0.0 (2.6.22-ARCH SMP preempt mod_unload 686 ) loading
Aug 26 18:37:19 Mozart ivtv0: Autodetected Hauppauge card (cx23416 based)
Aug 26 18:37:19 Mozart ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKC] enabled at IRQ 18
Aug 26 18:37:19 Mozart ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:01:0a.0[A] -> Link [LNKC] -> GSI 18 (level, low) -> IRQ 21
Aug 26 18:37:19 Mozart ivtv0: Unreasonably low latency timer, setting to 64 (was 32)
Aug 26 18:37:19 Mozart lp0: using parport0 (interrupt-driven).
Aug 26 18:37:19 Mozart bttv: driver version 0.9.17 loaded
Aug 26 18:37:19 Mozart bttv: using 8 buffers with 2080k (520 pages) each for capture
Aug 26 18:37:19 Mozart PPP generic driver version 2.4.2
Aug 26 18:37:19 Mozart input: PC Speaker as /class/input/input5
Aug 26 18:37:19 Mozart ppdev: user-space parallel port driver
Aug 26 18:37:19 Mozart ivtv0: loaded v4l-cx2341x-enc.fw firmware (376836 bytes)
Aug 26 18:37:19 Mozart ivtv0: Encoder revision: 0x02060039
Aug 26 18:37:19 Mozart tveeprom 2-0050: Hauppauge model 26034, rev C197, serial# 2977397
Aug 26 18:37:19 Mozart tveeprom 2-0050: tuner model is TCL 2002MB_3H (idx 97, type 55)
Aug 26 18:37:19 Mozart tveeprom 2-0050: TV standards PAL(B/G) PAL(D/D1/K) (eeprom 0x44)
Aug 26 18:37:19 Mozart tveeprom 2-0050: audio processor is CX25842 (idx 36)
Aug 26 18:37:19 Mozart tveeprom 2-0050: decoder processor is CX25842 (idx 29)
Aug 26 18:37:19 Mozart tveeprom 2-0050: has no radio, has IR receiver, has IR transmitter
Aug 26 18:37:19 Mozart ivtv0: Autodetected Hauppauge WinTV PVR-150
Aug 26 18:37:19 Mozart ivtv0: reopen i2c bus for IR-blaster support
Aug 26 18:37:19 Mozart tuner 2-0061: chip found @ 0xc2 (ivtv i2c driver #0)
Aug 26 18:37:19 Mozart cx25840 2-0044: cx25842-23 found @ 0x88 (ivtv i2c driver #0)
Aug 26 18:37:19 Mozart cx25840 2-0044: loaded v4l-cx25840.fw firmware (16382 bytes)
Aug 26 18:37:19 Mozart wm8775 2-001b: chip found @ 0x36 (ivtv i2c driver #0)
Aug 26 18:37:19 Mozart tuner 2-0061: type set to 55 (TCL 2002MB)
Aug 26 18:37:19 Mozart ivtv0: Registered device video0 for encoder MPEG (4 MB)
Aug 26 18:37:19 Mozart ivtv0: Registered device video32 for encoder YUV (2 MB)
Aug 26 18:37:19 Mozart ivtv0: Registered device vbi0 for encoder VBI (1 MB)
Aug 26 18:37:19 Mozart ivtv0: Registered device video24 for encoder PCM audio (1 MB)
Aug 26 18:37:19 Mozart ivtv0: Initialized Hauppauge WinTV PVR-150, card #0
Aug 26 18:37:19 Mozart ivtv: ==================== END INIT IVTV ====================