From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: Received: from wf-out-1314.google.com ([209.85.200.175]) by mail.linuxtv.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1MaqrJ-0003Fv-9r for linux-dvb@linuxtv.org; Tue, 11 Aug 2009 14:53:46 +0200 Received: by wf-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id 28so1317106wff.17 for ; Tue, 11 Aug 2009 05:53:41 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4A8169D0.3030008@dockerz.net> Date: Tue, 11 Aug 2009 13:53:36 +0100 From: Tim Docker MIME-Version: 1.0 To: linux-dvb@linuxtv.org Subject: [linux-dvb] problem: Hauppauge Nova TD500 Reply-To: linux-media@vger.kernel.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; Format="flowed" Sender: linux-dvb-bounces@linuxtv.org Errors-To: linux-dvb-bounces+mchehab=infradead.org@linuxtv.org List-ID: Hi, I'm trying to diagnose a problem with a mythtv setup based upon a hauppauge nova td 500. I've had the setup for some months - it seemed to work reasonably reliably initially, but over the last few weeks I've had consistent problems with the tuner card entering a state where it is unable to receive a signal. I was seeing multiple errors via dmesg of the form: [27317.617958] DiB0070 I2C write failed Web trawling suggested that this could be resolved with an updated driver - I did this yesterday, with the latest version from mercurial, obtained and built as per the instructions here: http://www.linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php/How_to_Obtain,_Build_and_Install_V4L-DVB_Device_Drivers I installed this over the top of the 2.6.27-14-generic kernel from the mythbuntu distribution, and manually installed the 1.20 firmware. In 24 uptime hours I haven't seen any I2C errors, but unfortunately, it has still entered some state where I can't received a signal. Mysteriously, there doesn't appear to be any relevant errors or messages in dmesg. From the log snippet below, you can see that no signal is being returned by tzap, but if I unload and reload the modules, everything comes back to life. I'd really appreciate any tips or pointers on what might be going wrong here. Thanks, Tim ------- snippet showing dmesg dvb related output at boot ----------------- [ 11.935560] dib0700: loaded with support for 9 different device-types [ 11.935760] dvb-usb: found a 'Hauppauge Nova-TD-500 (84xxx)' in cold state, will try to load a firmware [ 11.935763] firmware: requesting dvb-usb-dib0700-1.20.fw [ 11.986891] phy0: Selected rate control algorithm 'pid' [ 12.153734] dvb-usb: downloading firmware from file 'dvb-usb-dib0700-1.20.fw' [ 12.204961] Broadcom 43xx driver loaded [ Features: PLR, Firmware-ID: FW13 ] [ 12.361320] dib0700: firmware started successfully. [ 12.864020] dvb-usb: found a 'Hauppauge Nova-TD-500 (84xxx)' in warm state. [ 12.864066] dvb-usb: will pass the complete MPEG2 transport stream to the software demuxer. [ 12.864233] DVB: registering new adapter (Hauppauge Nova-TD-500 (84xxx)) [ 13.087819] DVB: registering adapter 0 frontend 0 (DiBcom 7000PC)... [ 13.263971] DiB0070: successfully identified [ 13.263975] dvb-usb: will pass the complete MPEG2 transport stream to the software demuxer. [ 13.264166] DVB: registering new adapter (Hauppauge Nova-TD-500 (84xxx)) [ 13.402995] DVB: registering adapter 1 frontend 0 (DiBcom 7000PC)... [ 13.584024] DiB0070: successfully identified [ 13.584099] input: IR-receiver inside an USB DVB receiver as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:0a.0/0000:01:07.2/usb3/3-1/input/input5 [ 13.596142] dvb-usb: schedule remote query interval to 50 msecs. [ 13.596148] dvb-usb: Hauppauge Nova-TD-500 (84xxx) successfully initialized and connected. [ 13.596297] usbcore: registered new interface driver dvb_usb_dib0700 ------ history showing no-signal and recovery by reloading ----------- timd@dkz-mythtv:~$ sudo tzap -r -c ~/.tzap/channels.conf "ABC1" using '/dev/dvb/adapter0/frontend0' and '/dev/dvb/adapter0/demux0' tuning to 226500000 Hz video pid 0x0200, audio pid 0x028a status 00 | signal ffff | snr 0000 | ber 00000000 | unc 00000000 | status 00 | signal ffff | snr 0000 | ber 00000000 | unc 00000000 | status 00 | signal ffff | snr 0000 | ber 00000000 | unc 00000000 | status 00 | signal ffff | snr 0000 | ber 00000000 | unc 00000000 | status 00 | signal ffff | snr 0000 | ber 00000000 | unc 00000000 | status 00 | signal ffff | snr 0000 | ber 00000000 | unc 00000000 | status 00 | signal ffff | snr 0000 | ber 00000000 | unc 00000000 | status 00 | signal ffff | snr 0000 | ber 00000000 | unc 00000000 | status 00 | signal ffff | snr 0000 | ber 00000000 | unc 00000000 | status 00 | signal ffff | snr 0000 | ber 00000000 | unc 00000000 | status 00 | signal ffff | snr 0000 | ber 00000000 | unc 00000000 | status 00 | signal ffff | snr 0000 | ber 00000000 | unc 00000000 | status 00 | signal ffff | snr 0000 | ber 00000000 | unc 00000000 | status 00 | signal ffff | snr 0000 | ber 00000000 | unc 00000000 | ^C timd@dkz-mythtv:~$ sudo rmmod dib7000p dib7000m dib3000mc dib0070 dvb_usb_dib0700 ERROR: Module dib7000p is in use by dvb_usb_dib0700 ERROR: Module dib7000m is in use by dvb_usb_dib0700 ERROR: Module dib3000mc is in use by dvb_usb_dib0700 ERROR: Module dib0070 is in use by dvb_usb_dib0700 timd@dkz-mythtv:~$ sudo rmmod dib7000p dib7000m dib3000mc dib0070 dvb_usb_dib0700 ERROR: Module dvb_usb_dib0700 does not exist in /proc/modules imd@dkz-mythtv:~$ sudo modprobe dvb-usb-dib0700 timd@dkz-mythtv:~$ sudo tzap -r -c ~/.tzap/channels.conf "ABC1" using '/dev/dvb/adapter0/frontend0' and '/dev/dvb/adapter0/demux0' tuning to 226500000 Hz video pid 0x0200, audio pid 0x028a status 1f | signal a89f | snr 0000 | ber 001fffff | unc 00000215 | FE_HAS_LOCK status 1f | signal a8c3 | snr 0000 | ber 00000710 | unc 00000000 | FE_HAS_LOCK status 1f | signal a8ac | snr 0000 | ber 00000480 | unc 00000000 | FE_HAS_LOCK status 1f | signal a8e8 | snr 0000 | ber 000004b0 | unc 00000000 | FE_HAS_LOCK status 1f | signal a8d8 | snr 0000 | ber 00000420 | unc 00000000 | FE_HAS_LOCK status 1f | signal a8bc | snr 0000 | ber 000003c0 | unc 00000000 | FE_HAS_LOCK status 1f | signal a8d0 | snr 0000 | ber 000005b0 | unc 00000000 | FE_HAS_LOCK _______________________________________________ linux-dvb users mailing list For V4L/DVB development, please use instead linux-media@vger.kernel.org linux-dvb@linuxtv.org http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linux-dvb