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Author:  tuatara [ Sun Feb 18, 2007 5:38 am ]
Post subject:  tda9887 error and PVR350/150 not found
Hi,

Just upgraded from C7->E50.
After install there were a host of problems.

One of them is that mythtv-setup says that it
cannot find my two encoder cards - a PVR-350 and
PVR-150.

grepping for ivtv in /var/log/messages shows everything starts ok.
However I see an error in /var/log/syslog:
ivtv: Unknown parameter `tda9887'

tda9887 is mentioned in several places under etc:
mythtv/modules/ivtv:#options ivtv tda9887=0 ivtv_std=2
mythtv/modules/ivtv:options ivtv tda9887=0 tuner=38,38 ivtv_std=2,2
mythtv/modules/ivtv:install ivtv /sbin/modprobe tuner; /sbin/modprobe msp3400; /sbin/modprobe saa7115; /sbin/modprobe --ignore-install ivtv; /sbin/modprobe td


Any thoughts on how to get around this one would be most appreciated.
Author:  tuatara [ Sun Feb 18, 2007 5:52 am ]
Post subject:  a little more detail is...
that capture card setup in mythtv-setup says:

Probed Info: Failed to open

for PVR-x50

Cheers.
Paul
Author:  tjc [ Sun Feb 18, 2007 10:43 am ]
Post subject: 
Please see the "R5E50 Upgrade hints and hazards" posting if you haven't already. Apparently a lot of people upgraded yesterday evening without reading this first... :(

You should probably update your /etc/mythtv/modules/ivtv as well. Mine looks like this:
Code:
root@black2:~# cat /etc/mythtv/modules/ivtv
alias char-major-81 videodev
alias char-major-61 lirc_i2c
options msp3400 once=1
install ivtv /sbin/modprobe tuner; /sbin/modprobe msp3400; /sbin/modprobe saa7115; /sbin/modprobe --ignore-install ivtv
remove ivtv /sbin/modprobe -r --ignore-remove ivtv && /sbin/modprobe -rsaa7115 && /sbin/modprobe -r msp3400 && /sbin/modprobe -r tuner

Even this is old. I really need to check what the one on the CD looks like...
Author:  tuatara [ Sun Feb 18, 2007 2:24 pm ]
Post subject: 
I had that topic open on my laptop as I walked through the install. But there's a lot of really good info there in the followup posts and I missed this. Doh - on re-read its really obvious!

Thanks
Paul.

tjc wrote:
Please see the "R5E50 Upgrade hints and hazards" posting if you haven't already. Apparently a lot of people upgraded yesterday evening without reading this first... :(

You should probably update your /etc/mythtv/modules/ivtv as well. Mine looks like this:
Code:
root@black2:~# cat /etc/mythtv/modules/ivtv
alias char-major-81 videodev
alias char-major-61 lirc_i2c
options msp3400 once=1
install ivtv /sbin/modprobe tuner; /sbin/modprobe msp3400; /sbin/modprobe saa7115; /sbin/modprobe --ignore-install ivtv
remove ivtv /sbin/modprobe -r --ignore-remove ivtv && /sbin/modprobe -rsaa7115 && /sbin/modprobe -r msp3400 && /sbin/modprobe -r tuner

Even this is old. I really need to check what the one on the CD looks like...
Author:  tuatara [ Mon Feb 19, 2007 1:42 am ]
Post subject:  Aha! Perhaps not quite as easy...
It seems that the answer was not quite that simple.

The options to ivtv have changed since C7.
I used to have:

Code:
options ivtv tda9887=0 tuner=38,38 ivtv_std=2,2


but it seems that tda9887 and ivtv_std are no longer valid.
So ivtv failed to load.

ivtv_std used to be required for PAL, and I can't remember why tda9887 was required, but it was.

Seems to be going now.
Thanks for the help - your ivtv section did it for me.
Cheers.
Paul
Author:  tjc [ Mon Feb 19, 2007 7:46 am ]
Post subject: 
I've updated this sticky thread with that information - http://mysettopbox.tv/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=4325
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