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Author:  yarrumretep [ Sat Dec 30, 2006 9:00 am ]
Post subject:  PCHDTV 5500 troubles with R5E50

Greetings folks!

First of all, thank you for the excellent knoppmyth distro - it represents a lot of hard work!

I am doing my first mythtv / knoppmyth install on

ASUS M2NPV-VM
NVidia GeForce 6150
integrated sound

1GB Crucial RAM
2x PCHDTV 5500

Two days ago I had this system up and running with a WinTV150 under R5D1 (with upgraded lirc for the remote and upgraded alsa for the sound) Nothing worth saving, so I did a clean install with R5E50 b/c I read it includes the new alsa & new kernel with the HD5500 drivers. Also was hoping that it might include new lirc (not sure of that one yet).

Enough background, here's the problem:

The cards don't seem to be seeing any digital channels at all. I'm connected to the ex-Susquehanna/newly-Comcast cable network out of Brunswick, Maine - and have a digital cable set top box which has been working including several HDTV channels. So there should be some dtv channels there - presumably not EVERYTHING is encrypted...(?)

I've run the dtvscan and get nothing either VSB or QAM. If I run "dtvscan /dev/video0" I get a very few channels (4,8,9,10,11,12,13) with messages of "look for sync / Can't find sync" for each of them.

During dtvscan run I get lots of these in my dmesg: "
Code:
cx88[0]/2: cx8802_timeout


In my dmesg, I see the following suspicious chunk about recognizing the cards:

Code:
...
cx2388x v4l2 driver version 0.0.6 loaded
cx2388x dvb driver version 0.0.6 loaded
cx2388x alsa driver version 0.0.6 loaded
CORE cx88[0]: subsystem: 7063:5500, board: pcHDTV HD5500 HDTV [card=47,autodetected]
TV tuner 64 at 0x1fe, Radio tuner -1 at 0x1fe
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [APC1] enabled at IRQ 16
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:04:08.2[A] -> Link [APC1] -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 20
cx88[0]/2: found at 0000:04:08.2, rev: 5, irq: 20, latency: 32, mmio: 0xf8000000
cx88[0]/2: cx2388x based dvb card
usb 1-6: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 3
usb 1-6: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
Initializing USB Mass Storage driver...
scsi4 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
usb-storage: device found at 3
usbcore: registered new driver usb-storage
usb-storage: waiting for device to settle before scanning
USB Mass Storage support registered.
DVB: registering new adapter (cx88[0]).
DVB: registering frontend 0 (LG Electronics LGDT3303 VSB/QAM Frontend)...
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:04:08.1[A] -> Link [APC1] -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 20
cx88[0]/1: CX88x/0: ALSA support for cx2388x boards
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [APC2] enabled at IRQ 17
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:04:09.1[A] -> Link [APC2] -> GSI 17 (level, low) -> IRQ 21
CORE cx88[1]: subsystem: 7063:5500, board: pcHDTV HD5500 HDTV [card=47,autodetected]
TV tuner 64 at 0x1fe, Radio tuner -1 at 0x1fe
BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 00000000
 printing eip:
f934370b
*pde = 00000000
Oops: 0000 [#1]
PREEMPT SMP
Modules linked in: usb_storage snd_hda_intel snd_mpu401 snd_hda_codec snd_mpu401_uart cx88_alsa cx88_dvb snd_pcm_oss \
cx8800 cx8802 snd_mixer_oss cx88xx cx88_vp3054_i2c snd_rawmidi ir_common snd_seq_device i2c_algo_bit mt352 dvb_pll or\
51132 video_buf_dvb dvb_core nxt200x firmware_class ohci_hcd snd_pcm isl6421 zl10353 cx24123 lgdt330x video_buf tveep\
rom i2c_nforce2 compat_ioctl32 ohci1394 ehci_hcd snd_timer snd_page_alloc cx22702 snd btcx_risc videodev v4l1_compat \
v4l2_common 8250_pnp ieee1394 usbcore i2c_core soundcore 8250 serial_core parport_pc parport analog gameport evdev ts\
dev
CPU:    1
EIP:    0060:[<f934370b>]    Not tainted VLI
EFLAGS: 00010202   (2.6.18-chw-13 #1)
EIP is at snd_cx88_capture_volume_get+0xb/0x30 [cx88_alsa]
eax: 00000000   ebx: f1dc0140   ecx: 00000001   edx: f19a0400
esi: 00000000   edi: f19a0440   ebp: 00000000   esp: f1e4dda4
ds: 007b   es: 007b   ss: 0068
Process amixer (pid: 2402, ti=f1e4c000 task=c1a42890 task.ti=f1e4c000)
Stack: f921774f f1dc0140 f19a0400 22222222 f1d68d4c 00000000 f1d68dbc f19a0400
       f1d68c00 f9218f83 f1d68c00 f19a0400 f1e4ddf4 f1c1e300 00000000 f920b000
       00000000 f1dc01a8 f1d68d4c f1d68d4c 00000001 00000002 00000000 00000000


I tried installing the latest drivers from pcHDTV.com, but couldn't due to the lack of kernel headers. When I tried to apt-get them it told me they were already installed (Custom install, no version info available). Tried removing and re-getting them to no avail...

Does any one of you gurus out there have some tips for me to get these cards fired up?

Author:  yarrumretep [ Sat Dec 30, 2006 9:34 am ]
Post subject: 

Whoops - sorry, wrong forum. Feel free to move this thread if appropriate!

Also, I should mention - the subject may imply that the problems are R5e50 related - I haven't had the HD5500 cards working at all - so it could be a problem with the cards and/or my cable network...

Thanks in advance for any thoughts!

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