First, I would like to thank this forum for creating such a useful resource, it was invaluable in helping me decide to go with knoppmyth in the first place.

However, I am having trouble getting my PVR-150 non MCE to work in R5A30 (running frontend and backend on the same machine), and have been unable despite massive googling to find relevant (R5A30) information regarding this card and my specific problems. If I have managed to miss something please forgive me and simply point (shove) me in the right direction. I am pretty much n00b but my exploration so far has educated me in the basics (and I mean basic).

Getting on with it:

After successfully installing knoppmyth:

1. General Settings left alone
2. Capture cards (here is where it gets tricky)

I enter the capture cards menu
Select new capture card
Set the card type to MPEG-2 Encoder card

I see /dev/video0 in the Video device section but the Default input section is empty. If I scroll through the Video Device options (/dev/video1...10..ect) I still get nothing in the Default input section.

Assuming i continue to select this device (sans default input) and setup Video Sources, I get an empty screen when I enter Input connections and a black display when I try to watch tv from Myth.

After some digging, I looked in the dmesg log file and found, among other errors:

ivtv0: Error -19 reading hauppauge eeprom

A search for this error in the forums revealed other users encountering the same issue, but i was not able to resolve my problem based on the information in those posts (they dealt with PVR 500s, older versions like R5A16, or using the 150 as a second tuner)

I assume based on the error that the issue is with tveeprom, but that is as far as my knowledge gets me. Any help that could be provided would be much appreciated.

As an aside, I would like to be able to post more of the log files, but i am running OS X and the instructions for using ssh on the wiki are for Windows only. Any advise on this topic would be appreciated as well, and possibly help me provide more valuable information.

Thanks in advance!

Do you see the firmware(s) in that directory?

I don't know what the firmware is called, but here is what I get from /lib/modules:

2.6.13.2-chw-3
extra
ivtv-fw-enc-bin
misc
HcwMakoA.ROM
ivtv-fw-dec.bin
ivtv_init_mpeg.bin

That looks right for /lib/modules. If you want to try updating the firmware, you can look here for more info and instructions:
http://ivtvdriver.org/index.php/Firmware

If you type at the console, do you get a line that looks something like this:
0000:00:0f.0 Multimedia video controller: Internext Compression Inc iTVC16 (CX23416) MPEG-2 Encoder (rev 01)

Paul

i do find the card in the result lspci, listed as:

0000:02:01.0 Multimedia video controller: Internext Compression Inc iTVC16 (CX23416) MPEG-2 Encoder (rev 01)

Is it possible that I have conflicting hardware somewhere?

I am running:
Intel 82801 motherboard with 2ghz proc
nVidia RIVA TNT2 64 video card
Lucent Microelectronics FW323 firewire card
Western Digital 40gb hard drive

Will check into updating the firmware, also going to try removing the firewire card and swapping video card to check for possible conflicts.

Thanks for you help so far!

Ok, here is an update

I removed the firewire card (not in use anyway) and installed the firmware availible from ivtv, no change in the the mythtv-setup Capture card section. I still see no default inputs. I still get the 'error -19 reading Hauppage eeprom'

Is there any better information I could provide?

I'm also using a Mac to access my Knoppmyth box. To use SSH to get to it:

- On the mac, open a terminal box
-- I think you can find terminal in the apps folder
-- You could think of the terminal box as the Mac equiv. of a CMD window in Win32

Once that terminal window is open:

- type ssh -l root 192.168.x.x (your mythbox IP)
-- the -l root is short for "use the login account of root"
-- you could also use -l mythtv or -l (your username that you setup at install)

The Mac will 'warn' you that you are about to trust the IP, and when you say 'Yes' it will add the key string of the Knoppmyth box (I know I'm saying this wrong, but it doesn't matter) to your list of trusted ssh IP's. SO .. this means that when you reload your Knoppmyth box (and you WILL be reloading this over and over and over ...) you will have to clear out that IP address from your trusted ssh list, or give your rebuilt Knoppmyth box a different IP.

Thanks dane!

I happen to be unable to try this until tomorrow (pets+my lazy ass leaving cabling all over the place=need 1 new ethernet cable) but I will post up more information then!

Thanks to danejasho, I have been able to ssh into my mythbox from OSX. Here is the output of the dmesg log. I hope this gives someone an insight into my problem. Any other logs I should post?

Linux version 2.6.13.2-chw-3 (root@dev.mysettopbox.tv) (gcc version 3.3.6 (Debian 1:3.3.6-5)) #1 SMP Wed Sep 21 08:15:54 PDT 2005
BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009fc00 (usable)
BIOS-e820: 000000000009fc00 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000000e0000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 000000003ff40000 (usable)
BIOS-e820: 000000003ff40000 - 000000003ff50000 (ACPI data)
BIOS-e820: 000000003ff50000 - 0000000040000000 (ACPI NVS)
127MB HIGHMEM available.
896MB LOWMEM available.
On node 0 totalpages: 261952
DMA zone: 4096 pages, LIFO batch:1
Normal zone: 225280 pages, LIFO batch:31
HighMem zone: 32576 pages, LIFO batch:15
DMI 2.3 present.
ACPI: RSDP (v000 ACPIAM ) @ 0x000f74d0
ACPI: RSDT (v001 INTEL D845EBG2 0x20020422 MSFT 0x00000097) @ 0x3ff40000
ACPI: FADT (v002 INTEL D845EBG2 0x20020422 MSFT 0x00000097) @ 0x3ff40200
ACPI: MADT (v001 INTEL D845EBG2 0x20020422 MSFT 0x00000097) @ 0x3ff40300
ACPI: DSDT (v001 INTEL D845EBG2 0x0000010a MSFT 0x0100000d) @ 0x00000000
ACPI: PM-Timer IO Port: 0x408
ACPI: Local APIC address 0xfee00000
ACPI: LAPIC (acpi_id[0x01] lapic_id[0x00] enabled)
Processor #0 15:2 APIC version 20
ACPI: IOAPIC (id[0x01] address[0xfec00000] gsi_base[0])
IOAPIC[0]: apic_id 1, version 32, address 0xfec00000, GSI 0-23
ACPI: INT_SRC_OVR (bus 0 bus_irq 0 global_irq 2 dfl dfl)
ACPI: INT_SRC_OVR (bus 0 bus_irq 9 global_irq 9 high level)
ACPI: IRQ0 used by override.
ACPI: IRQ2 used by override.
ACPI: IRQ9 used by override.
Enabling APIC mode: Flat. Using 1 I/O APICs
Using ACPI (MADT) for SMP configuration information
Allocating PCI resources starting at 40000000 (gap: 40000000:c0000000)
Built 1 zonelists
Kernel command line: auto BOOT_IMAGE=Linux ro root=301 splash=silent apm=power-off nomce
bootsplash: silent mode.
mapped APIC to ffffd000 (fee00000)
mapped IOAPIC to ffffc000 (fec00000)
Initializing CPU#0
PID hash table entries: 4096 (order: 12, 65536 bytes)
Detected 2000.289 MHz processor.
Using pmtmr for high-res timesource
Console: colour VGA+ 80x25
Dentry cache hash table entries: 131072 (order: 7, 524288 bytes)
Inode-cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 6, 262144 bytes)
Memory: 1032640k/1047808k available (3064k kernel code, 14376k reserved, 1213k data, 216k init, 130304k highmem)
Checking if this processor honours the WP bit even in supervisor mode... Ok.
Calibrating delay using timer specific routine.. 4005.22 BogoMIPS (lpj=8010457)
Security Framework v1.0.0 initialized
Mount-cache hash table entries: 512
CPU: After generic identify, caps: 3febfbff 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
CPU: After vendor identify, caps: 3febfbff 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
CPU: Trace cache: 12K uops, L1 D cache: 8K
CPU: L2 cache: 512K
CPU: Hyper-Threading is disabled
CPU: After all inits, caps: 3febfbff 00000000 00000000 00000080 00000000 00000000 00000000
mtrr: v2.0 (20020519)
Enabling fast FPU save and restore... done.
Enabling unmasked SIMD FPU exception support... done.
Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK.
CPU0: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.00GHz stepping 04
Total of 1 processors activated (4005.22 BogoMIPS).
ENABLING IO-APIC IRQs
..TIMER: vector=0x31 pin1=2 pin2=-1
Brought up 1 CPUs
checking if image is initramfs...it isn't (no cpio magic); looks like an initrd
Freeing initrd memory: 3k freed
NET: Registered protocol family 16
ACPI: bus type pci registered
PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xf0031, last bus=2
PCI: Using configuration type 1
ACPI: Subsystem revision 20050408
ACPI: Interpreter enabled
ACPI: Using IOAPIC for interrupt routing
ACPI: PCI Root Bridge [PCI0] (0000:00)
PCI: Probing PCI hardware (bus 00)
ACPI: Assume root bridge [\_SB_.PCI0] segment is 0
PCI: Ignoring BAR0-3 of IDE controller 0000:00:1f.1
Boot video device is 0000:01:00.0
PCI: Transparent bridge - 0000:00:1e.0
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0._PRT]
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0.P0P1._PRT]
ACPI: Power Resource [URP1] (off)
ACPI: Power Resource [URP2] (off)
ACPI: Power Resource [FDDP] (off)
ACPI: Power Resource [LPTP] (off)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKA] (IRQs 3 4 5 7 9 10 *11 12 14 15)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKB] (IRQs 3 4 5 7 9 10 *11 12 14 15)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKC] (IRQs 3 4 5 7 *9 10 11 12 14 15)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKD] (IRQs 3 4 *5 7 9 10 11 12 14 15)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKE] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 9 10 *11 12 14 15)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKF] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 9 10 11 12 14 15) *0, disabled.
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKG] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 9 10 *11 12 14 15)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKH] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 9 *10 11 12 14 15)
Linux Plug and Play Support v0.97 (c) Adam Belay
pnp: PnP ACPI init
pnp: PnP ACPI: found 14 devices
PnPBIOS: Disabled by ACPI PNP
SCSI subsystem initialized
PCI: Using ACPI for IRQ routing
PCI: If a device doesn't work, try "pci=routeirq". If it helps, post a report
pnp: 00:0c: ioport range 0x400-0x47f could not be reserved
pnp: 00:0c: ioport range 0x680-0x6ff has been reserved
pnp: 00:0c: ioport range 0x480-0x4bf has been reserved
PCI: Bridge: 0000:00:01.0
IO window: disabled.
MEM window: fc900000-fe9fffff
PREFETCH window: e8600000-ec6fffff
PCI: Bridge: 0000:00:1e.0
IO window: d000-dfff
MEM window: fea00000-feafffff
PREFETCH window: ec700000-f47fffff
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1e.0 to 64
highmem bounce pool size: 64 pages
Total HugeTLB memory allocated, 0
VFS: Disk quotas dquot_6.5.1
Dquot-cache hash table entries: 1024 (order 0, 4096 bytes)
JFS: nTxBlock = 8070, nTxLock = 64565
SGI XFS with ACLs, security attributes, realtime, large block numbers, no debug enabled
SGI XFS Quota Management subsystem
Initializing Cryptographic API
isapnp: Scanning for PnP cards...
isapnp: No Plug & Play device found
PNP: PS/2 Controller [PNP0303:PS2K,PNP0f03:PS2M] at 0x60,0x64 irq 1,12
serio: i8042 AUX port at 0x60,0x64 irq 12
serio: i8042 KBD port at 0x60,0x64 irq 1
io scheduler noop registered
io scheduler anticipatory registered
io scheduler deadline registered
io scheduler cfq registered
Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077
RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 4096K size 1024 blocksize
loop: loaded (max 8 devices)
Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00alpha2
ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
ICH4: IDE controller at PCI slot 0000:00:1f.1
PCI: Enabling device 0000:00:1f.1 (0005 -> 0007)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1f.1[A] -> GSI 18 (level, low) -> IRQ 16
ICH4: chipset revision 1
ICH4: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
ide0: BM-DMA at 0xffa0-0xffa7, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:DMA
Probing IDE interface ide0...
hda: WDC WD400BB-00CLB0, ATA DISK drive
hdb: TOSHIBA ODD-DVD SD-R5272, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
Probing IDE interface ide1...
hda: max request size: 128KiB
hda: 78165360 sectors (40020 MB) w/2048KiB Cache, CHS=65535/16/63, UDMA(100)
hda: cache flushes not supported
hda: hda1 hda2 hda3 hda4
hdb: ATAPI 40X DVD-ROM DVD-R CD-R/RW drive, 2048kB Cache, UDMA(33)
Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20
libata version 1.12 loaded.
mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice
md: linear personality registered as nr 1
md: raid0 personality registered as nr 2
md: raid1 personality registered as nr 3
md: raid10 personality registered as nr 9
md: raid5 personality registered as nr 4
raid5: automatically using best checksumming function: pIII_sse
pIII_sse : 2500.000 MB/sec
raid5: using function: pIII_sse (2500.000 MB/sec)
raid6: int32x1 541 MB/s
raid6: int32x2 719 MB/s
raid6: int32x4 463 MB/s
raid6: int32x8 448 MB/s
raid6: mmxx1 1650 MB/s
raid6: mmxx2 2066 MB/s
raid6: sse1x1 1051 MB/s
raid6: sse1x2 1470 MB/s
raid6: sse2x1 1842 MB/s
raid6: sse2x2 2181 MB/s
raid6: using algorithm sse2x2 (2181 MB/s)
md: raid6 personality registered as nr 8
md: multipath personality registered as nr 7
md: faulty personality registered as nr 10
md: md driver 0.90.2 MAX_MD_DEVS=256, MD_SB_DISKS=27
md: bitmap version 3.38
device-mapper: 4.4.0-ioctl (2005-01-12) initialised: dm-devel@redhat.com
NET: Registered protocol family 2
input: AT Translated Set 2 keyboard on isa0060/serio0
IP route cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 6, 262144 bytes)
TCP established hash table entries: 262144 (order: 10, 4194304 bytes)
TCP bind hash table entries: 65536 (order: 7, 786432 bytes)
TCP: Hash tables configured (established 262144 bind 65536)
TCP reno registered
TCP bic registered
NET: Registered protocol family 1
NET: Registered protocol family 15
Using IPI Shortcut mode
Suspend2 Core.
Suspend2 Compression Driver loading.
Suspend2 Encryption Driver loading.
Suspend2 Swap Writer loading.
Suspend2 FileWriter loading.
md: Autodetecting RAID arrays.
md: autorun ...
md: ... autorun DONE.
RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0
VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem).
Suspend2: Initrd lacks echo > /proc/software_suspend/do_resume.
EXT3-fs: INFO: recovery required on readonly filesystem.
EXT3-fs: write access will be enabled during recovery.
input: PS/2 Generic Mouse on isa0060/serio1
(fs/jbd/recovery.c, 255): journal_recover: JBD: recovery, exit status 0, recovered transactions 19713 to 19968
(fs/jbd/recovery.c, 257): journal_recover: JBD: Replayed 1649 and revoked 0/9 blocks
EXT3-fs: hda1: orphan cleanup on readonly fs
ext3_orphan_cleanup: deleting unreferenced inode 136636
ext3_orphan_cleanup: deleting unreferenced inode 136635
EXT3-fs: hda1: 2 orphan inodes deleted
EXT3-fs: recovery complete.
kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds
EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
VFS: Mounted root (ext3 filesystem) readonly.
Trying to move old root to /initrd ... okay
Freeing unused kernel memory: 216k freed
Suspend2 2.2-rc7: You need to use a resume2= command line parameter to tell Suspend2 where to look for an image.
Suspend2 2.2-rc7: Resume2 parameter is empty. Suspending will be disabled.
Suspend2 2.2-rc7: Missing or invalid storage location (resume2= parameter). Please correct and rerun lilo (or equivalent) before suspending.
Adding 176392k swap on /dev/hda2. Priority:-1 extents:1
EXT3 FS on hda1, internal journal
usbcore: registered new driver usbfs
usbcore: registered new driver hub
USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver v2.3
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1d.0[A] -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 17
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1d.0 to 64
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.0: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #1
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.0: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.0: irq 17, io base 0x0000e800
hub 1-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 1-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1d.1[B] -> GSI 19 (level, low) -> IRQ 18
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1d.1 to 64
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.1: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #2
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.1: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 2
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.1: irq 18, io base 0x0000e880
hub 2-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 2-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1d.2[C] -> GSI 18 (level, low) -> IRQ 16
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1d.2 to 64
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.2: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #3
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.2: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 3
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.2: irq 16, io base 0x0000ec00
hub 3-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 3-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
ohci_hcd: 2005 April 22 USB 1.1 'Open' Host Controller (OHCI) Driver (PCI)
Initializing USB Mass Storage driver...
usbcore: registered new driver usb-storage
USB Mass Storage support registered.
ieee1394: Initialized config rom entry `ip1394'
Real Time Clock Driver v1.12
ACPI: Power Button (FF) [PWRF]
ACPI: Sleep Button (CM) [SLPB]
ACPI: CPU0 (power states: C1[C1])
ACPI: Processor [CPU1] (supports 8 throttling states)
Serial: 8250/16550 driver $Revision: 1.90 $ 4 ports, IRQ sharing disabled
ttyS0 at I/O 0x3f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
ttyS1 at I/O 0x2f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A
parport: PnPBIOS parport detected.
parport0: PC-style at 0x378, irq 7 [PCSPP,TRISTATE,EPP]
Linux agpgart interface v0.101 (c) Dave Jones
agpgart: Detected an Intel i845 Chipset.
agpgart: AGP aperture is 64M @ 0xf8000000
hw_random hardware driver 1.0.0 loaded
e100: Intel(R) PRO/100 Network Driver, 3.4.8-k2-NAPI
e100: Copyright(c) 1999-2005 Intel Corporation
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:02:08.0[A] -> GSI 20 (level, low) -> IRQ 19
e100: eth0: e100_probe: addr 0xfeaff000, irq 19, MAC addr 00:03:47:FC:98:4C
Linux video capture interface: v1.00
ivtv: ==================== START INIT IVTV ====================
ivtv: version 0.4.0 (tagged release) loading
ivtv: Linux version: 2.6.13.2-chw-3 SMP preempt 586 gcc-3.3
ivtv: In case of problems please include the debug info
ivtv: between the START INIT IVTV and END INIT IVTV lines when
ivtv: mailing the ivtv-devel mailinglist.
ivtv0: Autodetected WinTV PVR 150 card (iTVC16 based)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:02:01.0[A] -> GSI 22 (level, low) -> IRQ 20
ivtv0: Unreasonably low latency timer, setting to 64 (was 32)
ivtv0 warning: i2c client addr: 0x50 not found for command 0x0!
ivtv0: Error -19 reading Hauppauge eeprom.
ivtv0: Possible causes: the tveeprom module was not loaded, or
ivtv0: the eeprom kernel module was loaded before the tveeprom module.
ivtv0 warning: i2c client addr: 0x44 not found for command 0x400464c9!
ivtv0: Could not detect tuner standard, defaulting to NTSC.
ivtv0: loading /lib/modules/ivtv-fw-enc.bin
ivtv0 warning: Encoder mailbox not found
ivtv0 warning: Decoder mailbox not found
ivtv0: Error locating firmware.
ivtv0: Error -12 on initialization
ivtv-iTVC15_16_mpg2_encoder_card: probe of 0000:02:01.0 failed with error -12
ivtv: ==================== END INIT IVTV ====================
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1f.5[B] -> GSI 17 (level, low) -> IRQ 21
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1f.5 to 64
intel8x0_measure_ac97_clock: measured 58120 usecs
intel8x0: clocking to 48000
NET: Registered protocol family 17
bttv: driver version 0.9.16 loaded
bttv: using 8 buffers with 2080k (520 pages) each for capture
bt878: AUDIO driver version 0.0.0 loaded
saa7146: register extension 'dvb'.
saa7146: register extension 'budget dvb'.
saa7146: register extension 'budget_ci dvb'.
saa7146: register extension 'budget_av'.
usbcore: registered new driver ttusb
usbcore: registered new driver ttusb-dec
NET: Registered protocol family 10
Disabled Privacy Extensions on device c04d8ba0(lo)
IPv6 over IPv4 tunneling driver
kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds
EXT3 FS on hda4, internal journal
EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
e100: eth0: e100_watchdog: link up, 100Mbps, full-duplex
eth0: no IPv6 routers present
Warning: /proc/ide/hd?/settings interface is obsolete, and will be removed soon!
lirc_dev: IR Remote Control driver registered, at major 61
cx2388x v4l2 driver version 0.0.5 loaded
ts: Compaq touchscreen protocol output
input: PC Speaker
ttyS0 at I/O 0x3f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
ttyS1 at I/O 0x2f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A
pci_hotplug: PCI Hot Plug PCI Core version: 0.5
shpchp: shpc_init : shpc_cap_offset == 0
shpchp: shpc_init : shpc_cap_offset == 0
shpchp: Standard Hot Plug PCI Controller Driver version: 0.4
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1d.7[D] -> GSI 23 (level, low) -> IRQ 22
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1d.7 to 64
ehci_hcd 0000:00:1d.7: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-M) USB2 EHCI Controller
ehci_hcd 0000:00:1d.7: debug port 1
ehci_hcd 0000:00:1d.7: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 4
ehci_hcd 0000:00:1d.7: irq 22, io mem 0xfebffc00
PCI: cache line size of 128 is not supported by device 0000:00:1d.7
ehci_hcd 0000:00:1d.7: USB 2.0 initialized, EHCI 1.00, driver 10 Dec 2004
hub 4-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 4-0:1.0: 6 ports detected
tpm_inf 0000:00:1f.0: LPC-bus found at 0x24c0
tpm_inf: probe of 0000:00:1f.0 failed with error -5
eepro100.c:v1.09j-t 9/29/99 Donald Becker http://www.scyld.com/network/eepro100.html
eepro100.c: $Revision: 1.36 $ 2000/11/17 Modified by Andrey V. Savochkin <saw@saw.sw.com.sg> and others
nvidia: module license 'NVIDIA' taints kernel.
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:01:00.0[A] -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 17
NVRM: loading NVIDIA Linux x86 NVIDIA Kernel Module 1.0-7174 Tue Mar 22 06:44:39 PST 2005
agpgart: Found an AGP 2.0 compliant device at 0000:00:00.0.
agpgart: Putting AGP V2 device at 0000:00:00.0 into 4x mode
agpgart: Putting AGP V2 device at 0000:01:00.0 into 4x mode
agpgart: Found an AGP 2.0 compliant device at 0000:00:00.0.
agpgart: Putting AGP V2 device at 0000:00:00.0 into 4x mode
agpgart: Putting AGP V2 device at 0000:01:00.0 into 4x mode

I haven't taken the plunge and upgraded to RA30 at this point, but in RA26, I found several places that pointed out to choose the PVR250/350 rather than mpeg2 encoder. I'm using a PVR500MCE and it works quite well.

--joseph

I chose the 150 for financial reasons, but if I continue to have these problems I might have to fork out the extra dough and try something else. The frustrating part is that there seems to be many users who have this card running without issue. None of my hardware as far as I can tell is on the "naughty" list, in theory, my setup should be running like clockwork off a basic knoppmyth install.

If I hadn't just done an emergency data recovery for a local business I never would've been able to gather up the cash for the PVR-500 myself. When you get back 5 years worth of non-backed up data they tend to be grateful ($$).

What I meant to say--or possibly didn't make clear:
When you set up the new capture card when using the PVR-150 or PVR-500, don't choose "Mpeg2 Encoder" from the menu. Choose the option for "PVR-250/350". The PVR-500MCE is the same process (except you do it once for /dev/video0 and once as /dev/video1--default choices for a single-card PVR-500 setup).

As far as the setup goes, I beat my head against the wall trying to get the "mpeg2 encoder" option working--only to find out that I needed to choose the PVR option.

Give it a whirl, it worked for me.

--joseph

Joseph,

Thanks for the advice, but in my setup menu, there is no seperate option for a MPEG-2 encoder card and the 250-350, rather i see: "MPEG-2 encoder card (PVR-250, PVR-350)" all in one line in the menu. Maybe this is different between RA26 and RA30, or is there somewhere else where I should be making the distinction?

When I select this card type, the Video device section displays /dev/video0, but the Default input section is blank and empty... did you run into the same thing in RA26?

I'm no expert in all this. 5A26 is the only one I've tried (as far as Knoppmyth is concerned). When I configured it a few weeks ago, I remember there being a PVR option and a Encoder option as well as one or two others. I'll take a look at my setup when I get home and let you know what it looks like for sure. I don't think I've run into the blank line problem myself.

I do have to say though, Knoppmyth is a whole lot easier than a complete build from scratch--although I have done that as well. I have found that it is useful to do a build-from-scratch version (even if it is for no other reason than to get more exposure).

Have you tried the 5A26 version?

--joseph

I did try RA26, but I was downloading 30 as I installed it, so when it didn't work flawlessly I ditched it for 30 as soon as I had my disk burned. I just saw that RA30.1 is out, so I will try slapping that on the system as soon as I can get on a decent speed network to download it. Not sure if it will help me, but the post on the homepage said they "squashed a few bugs" that popped up so... we'll see. Other than that, while the thought of building up a system from Ubuntu or another distro scares me, there is documentation for getting my specific card to work with myth. Worth a shot.