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Author:  mschlott [ Sun Mar 19, 2006 1:36 pm ]
Post subject:  PVR-150 Display problem when installed with HD-5000
This is a new install of R5B7 with a PVR-150 and HD-5000. During the install I configured the HD-5000 first, then the PVR-150. The HD-5000 is connected to an antenna and the PVR-150 is connected to Comcast Cable. The PVR-150 was working fine before the new install with R5B30.2.

Here is my problem, any live TV or recordings from the PVR-150 have the left 1/3 of the screen cut off. It appears as if the picture is zoomed in and shifted to the right. I have tried unconfiguring the HD-5000, but have not tried physicaly removing it.

I suspect if I did a clean install with nothing but the PVR-150 installed, it would work fine. In my limmited experience, I have had to configure the HD-5000 first to get it working properly. I don't remember why.

Can anyone offer suggestions on this, before I do a clean install?

Feel free to tell me to get rid of the PVR-150 and try to get my HD-5000 working on the cable. I'm leaning that way anyway. My analog cable single stinks.

mike
Author:  cesman [ Sun Mar 19, 2006 2:19 pm ]
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An auto upgrade is essentially a clean install. Have you dump the 150 from the db then reconfigured it? Is there and IRQ conflict? Have you tried the cards in a different slot?
Author:  mschlott [ Sun Mar 19, 2006 4:13 pm ]
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I don't know how to determine if I have conflicting IRQs. Nothing jumps out at me from any of the files in /var/log.

I removed the HD-5000 and deleted all capture cards and re-configured the PVR-150. This worked fine.

I installed the HD-5000 without configuring it and the PVR-150 still worked fine.

I configured the HD-5000. Now every time I select "Watch TV" after a backend restart the screen comes up black and all I get is audio. If I exit live tv and select "Watch TV" again the picture is displayed. Some of the digital channels on the HD-5000 have a wide black bar on the left and 1/3 of the screen is cut off on the right. Others properly fill the screen. I'm guessing that the difference is HD vs non HD broadcasts. I set aspect override to fill in the play back settings, now all hd video fills the screen. Some content is cut off on the left.

I reboot the system. Now I can not watch TV. .xsession-errors shows this.


2006-03-19 15:39:13.113 TV: Attempting to change from None to WatchingLiveTV
2006-03-19 15:39:13.119 Using protocol version 26
2006-03-19 15:39:13.169 GetEntryAt(-1) failed.
2006-03-19 15:39:13.170 EntryToProgram(0@Wed Dec 31 18:00:00 1969) failed to get pginfo
2006-03-19 15:39:13.170 TV Error: LiveTV not successfully started
2006-03-19 15:39:13.170 TV Error: LiveTV not successfully started
2006-03-19 15:39:13.178 TV: Deleting TV Chain in destructor
2006-03-19 15:39:55.086 Received a remote 'Clear Cache' request


I clear the capture card settings, then re-configure the PVR-150. This time I notice when I start mythtv-backend. I get a bunch of errors like this.

ivtv0 warning: i2c client addr: 0x21 not found for command 0x40045612!
ivtv0 warning: i2c client addr: 0x40 not found for command 0x80287610!
ivtv0 warning: i2c client addr: 0x40 not found for command 0x40287611!

I'm not certain that I have not been getting them all along.

I clear the card config again and add just the HD-5000. This time no errors from mythtv-backend start.

I reboot and watch tv still works for the HD-5000, other than it is black screen the first time I hit watch TV.



I configure the PVR-150. I get the errors again when I start myth-backend. Watch TV takes me to a digital channel. Now every channel on the PVR-150 is screwed up like it was in the beginning.

I delete the configuration for both cards and re-add them with the PVR-150 first. All analog channels are still screwed up. I reboot. Analog channels are still cut off on the right.

I pull out the HD-5000 again. I deleted both capture cards and reconfigure just the PVR-150. This time no errors on the mythtv-backend start. The picture looks fine.

From all of the above, I suspect I have an IRQ problem between the PVR-150 and the HD-5000. I only have 3 PCI slots. The third is a wireless card.

I'll try swaping the cards around and see what I can come up with.
Author:  nbdwt73 [ Sun Mar 19, 2006 4:30 pm ]
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I am having the same issue with one of my machines - it has a pvr250, a pvr150, and an HD5000. I have not had time to trouble shoot it much. I did try moving slots, I scoured the logs (same errors reported above). I do know if you remove the HD5000 and remove and re-add the 2 pvr cards, things are fine. Will keep snooping.
Author:  mschlott [ Sun Mar 19, 2006 5:38 pm ]
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I found one combination of cards and slots that seems to work. Oddly I found that I had to make the card change, configure the cards, power off the system and reboot. If I did not do this the analog card would not tune when I tried to use it. I would just get kicked back to the menu.


Any way it looks like I was able to get my picture correct, other than the varying aspect ratios on the digital channels.
Author:  nbdwt73 [ Mon Mar 20, 2006 7:56 am ]
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Update - I found that if the pvr150 is in a lower number slot than the pvr250 but NOT slot 0 then the system seems to work and be stable. Furthermore, the volume issue with the pvr150 seems to be OK too...
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