yet another HVR-2250 issue

[Victormd]

1. Should I try using the newer firmware 1.0.3-3?

That's the version I tried - I deleted the previous versions in the folder. Not sure about the modprobe setting, I didn't go through any of that. I sent my card back and replaced my old HVR-1600 with another 1600 and, since I formatted my mythbox, all I had to do was add the firmware to /lib/firmware, reboot and the card was detected. This is what I was expecting from the HVR-2250.

I talked to Steven Toth and this was his response:

The card isn't being detected correctly by the driver. Card type 7
probably isn't the right profile for your hardware. Each card that
Hauppauge ship I own and check personally. When I know the card works
I add support in the driver tree and push the patches to
kernellabs.com (then upstream).

No amount of poking and guessing is going to help you. No amount of
re-installing 10.10 will help. Either Hauppauge changed the card
recently or the tree is broken and I'd need to patch it. Either is
possible although I suspect the former.

So for your second question, if it's not working with the ubuntu driver, I'd try the kernellabs.com version. If that doesn't work, check Steven's site for more info.

[nh79]

Thanks for the tips but it didn't fix the problems.

Without being able to build the driver the kernel still searched for the old firmware file which does not work with rev 81 of the saa7164.

I guess I need to wait until Steven Toth of someone else gets there hands on the updated card and makes it work.

I installed a trial of Windows 7 with media center on the machine and everything works well. Maybe the easiest solutions is to give up on MythTV and cough up for a windows license.

[Victormd]

Without being able to build the driver the kernel still searched for the old firmware file which does not work with rev 81 of the saa7164.

Why couldn't you build the driver? I don't know that the driver is what specifies the firmware to use - it should search for the latest version in /lib/firmware. The reason I say this is because Ubuntu comes with the driver for the HVR-2200 - I have some links that I used to try to get it working - I'll check my bookmarks when I get home and I'll post them here for you to try them out.

I Wouldn't go with Windows Media Center - I've tried both and MythTV is just so much more versatile the WMC. I feel your pain in trying to get everything working, been there, but once you do, you'll appreciate the effort.

[ronbus]

I built the driver using the old version of the firmware and an old kernel and it took me a while to figure out I needed to do a "make distclean" before running the make again so it built for the updated kernel and with the new firmware. While that got the new correct firmware loaded, it didn't solve my issue with the saa7164_api_i2c_read() errors.

I get the lockups even when I'm only watching live TV on a single tuner. I haven't turned off the EIT, but I'm not sure that would solve my problem. I do have an AMD CPU and an on-board ATI video card. The card seems to work perfectly until I get the lockups.

I'm thinking of creating a cron job to see if the i2c_read() errors have started every minute and have it unload and reload the kernel modules. Does anyone know if that would work?

[ronbus]

Unloading and reloading the saa7164 module didn't seem to work. I was hoping it would be as simple as

sudo rmmod saa7164
sudo modprobe saa7164

but it "Failed to register dvb adapters on porta".

Maybe I need to provide some different options to modprobe to force it to load the firmware again. I'll keep looking.

[Ubu_Fester]

I have three tuners: HVR-1600 (single) and HVR-2250 (dual). My HVR-2250 (with dual tuners) has been working fine for the last 10 months. I used Lowsky's instructions -- which worked great. Last couple of weeks, anytime I record from the 2250, the recorded program looks like it recorded, but is (blank).

Typing dmesg, I get the following (portion of output):

dmesg | grep --max-count=20 saa7164
081] saa7164_api_i2c_read() error, ret(1) = 0xc
[292554.216094] saa7164_cmd_send() No free sequences
[292554.216099] saa7164_api_i2c_read() error, ret(1) = 0xc
[292554.216112] saa7164_cmd_send() No free sequences
[292554.216117] saa7164_api_i2c_write() error, ret(1) = 0xc
[292554.216131] saa7164_cmd_send() No free sequences
[292554.216136] saa7164_api_i2c_write() error, ret(1) = 0xc
[292554.216149] saa7164_cmd_send() No free sequences
[292554.216153] saa7164_api_i2c_write() error, ret(1) = 0xc
[292554.216169] saa7164_cmd_send() No free sequences

From lspci, I get:

03:00.0 Multimedia controller: Philips Semiconductors Device 7164 (rev 81)

Is it possible that an automatic update messed with my settings? How can I get my 2250 working normally again?

I'm on ubuntu 10.10 and mythtv 0.23.1
Thanks in advance!

[Ubu_Fester]

Sorry, false alarm!! I rebooted and looks like the 2250 tuner is back up and running fine on my HTPC.

Ubu Fester

[vidtek]

I have three tuners: HVR-1600 (single) and HVR-2250 (dual). My HVR-2250 (with dual tuners) has been working fine for the last 10 months. I used Lowsky's instructions -- which worked great. Last couple of weeks, anytime I record from the 2250, the recorded program looks like it recorded, but is (blank).

Typing dmesg, I get the following (portion of output):

dmesg | grep --max-count=20 saa7164
081] saa7164_api_i2c_read() error, ret(1) = 0xc
[292554.216094] saa7164_cmd_send() No free sequences
[292554.216099] saa7164_api_i2c_read() error, ret(1) = 0xc
[292554.216112] saa7164_cmd_send() No free sequences
[292554.216117] saa7164_api_i2c_write() error, ret(1) = 0xc
[292554.216131] saa7164_cmd_send() No free sequences
[292554.216136] saa7164_api_i2c_write() error, ret(1) = 0xc
[292554.216149] saa7164_cmd_send() No free sequences
[292554.216153] saa7164_api_i2c_write() error, ret(1) = 0xc
[292554.216169] saa7164_cmd_send() No free sequences

From lspci, I get:

03:00.0 Multimedia controller: Philips Semiconductors Device 7164 (rev 81)

Is it possible that an automatic update messed with my settings? How can I get my 2250 working normally again?

I'm on ubuntu 10.10 and mythtv 0.23.1


Thanks in advance!

Guys-

One thing I've learned over the last 5 years messing about with linux and Mythtv is to DISABLE ALL AUTO-UPDATES.

Sorry for the shout, but once you get your B/E and F/E working leave them alone!
Tony