Running R5D1. I have 2 PVR 150 cards. Both show all cable channels in the mythtv setup. I noticed after a little bit of goofing, one of the cards only can record / show channels 2 - 13 while the other can record / show all the channels via cable. I read some posts and updated to version .7.1 of ivtv to try to fix the problem, but the 1 card will still only show snow on any channel over 13. I even tried the ivtv option 50 with no success.

I also can not scan for any channels over 13 during the mythtv-setup no matter what us-cable option I choose.

The card in ? is the first card. I ended up switching my settings to make it the 2nd card in the setup so I could have the higher channels.


Nov 4 21:20:03 mythtv kernel: ivtv: ==================== START INIT IVTV ====================
Nov 4 21:20:03 mythtv kernel: ivtv: version 0.7.1 (tagged release) loading
Nov 4 21:20:03 mythtv kernel: ivtv: Linux version: 2.6.17-chw-8 SMP preempt mod_unload 586 gcc-3.4
Nov 4 21:20:03 mythtv kernel: ivtv: In case of problems please include the debug info between
Nov 4 21:20:03 mythtv kernel: ivtv: the START INIT IVTV and END INIT IVTV lines, along with
Nov 4 21:20:03 mythtv kernel: ivtv: any module options, when mailing the ivtv-users mailinglist.
Nov 4 21:20:03 mythtv kernel: ivtv0: Autodetected Hauppauge WinTV PVR-150 card (cx23416 based)
Nov 4 21:20:03 mythtv kernel: ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:0a.0[A] -> GSI 18 (level, low) -> IRQ 21
Nov 4 21:20:03 mythtv kernel: ivtv0: Unreasonably low latency timer, setting to 64 (was 32)
Nov 4 21:20:03 mythtv kernel: tuner 1-0061: chip found @ 0xc2 (ivtv i2c driver #0)
Nov 4 21:20:03 mythtv kernel: cx25840 1-0044: cx25843-23 found @ 0x88 (ivtv i2c driver #0)
Nov 4 21:20:06 mythtv kernel: cx25840 1-0044: loaded v4l-cx25840.fw firmware (16382 bytes)
Nov 4 21:20:06 mythtv kernel: wm8775 1-001b: chip found @ 0x36 (ivtv i2c driver #0)
Nov 4 21:20:06 mythtv kernel: tveeprom 1-0050: Hauppauge model 26582, rev C699, serial# 8902062
Nov 4 21:20:06 mythtv kernel: tveeprom 1-0050: tuner model is TCL 2002N 5H (idx 99, type 50)
Nov 4 21:20:06 mythtv kernel: tveeprom 1-0050: TV standards NTSC(M) (eeprom 0x08)
Nov 4 21:20:06 mythtv kernel: tveeprom 1-0050: audio processor is CX25843 (idx 37)
Nov 4 21:20:06 mythtv kernel: tveeprom 1-0050: decoder processor is CX25843 (idx 30)
Nov 4 21:20:06 mythtv kernel: tveeprom 1-0050: has no radio, has no IR remote
Nov 4 21:20:07 mythtv kernel: ivtv0: loaded v4l-cx2341x-enc.fw firmware (262144 bytes)
Nov 4 21:20:07 mythtv kernel: ivtv0: Encoder revision: 0x02050032
Nov 4 21:20:07 mythtv kernel: ivtv0: Allocate DMA encoder MPEG stream: 128 x 32768 buffers (4096KB total)
Nov 4 21:20:07 mythtv kernel: ivtv0: Allocate DMA encoder YUV stream: 194 x 10800 buffers (2048KB total)
Nov 4 21:20:07 mythtv kernel: ivtv0: Allocate DMA encoder VBI stream: 120 x 17472 buffers (2048KB total)
Nov 4 21:20:07 mythtv kernel: ivtv0: Allocate DMA encoder PCM audio stream: 455 x 4608 buffers (2048KB total)
Nov 4 21:20:07 mythtv kernel: tuner 1-0061: type set to 50 (TCL 2002N)
Nov 4 21:20:08 mythtv kernel: ivtv0: Initialized Hauppauge WinTV PVR-150, card #0
Nov 4 21:20:08 mythtv kernel: ivtv: ====================== NEXT CARD ======================
Nov 4 21:20:08 mythtv kernel: ivtv1: Autodetected Hauppauge WinTV PVR-150 card (cx23416 based)
Nov 4 21:20:08 mythtv kernel: ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:0d.0[A] -> GSI 19 (level, low) -> IRQ 22
Nov 4 21:20:08 mythtv kernel: ivtv1: Unreasonably low latency timer, setting to 64 (was 32)
Nov 4 21:20:08 mythtv kernel: tuner 2-0061: chip found @ 0xc2 (ivtv i2c driver #1)
Nov 4 21:20:08 mythtv kernel: cx25840 2-0044: cx25841-23 found @ 0x88 (ivtv i2c driver #1)
Nov 4 21:20:11 mythtv kernel: cx25840 2-0044: loaded v4l-cx25840.fw firmware (16382 bytes)
Nov 4 21:20:11 mythtv kernel: wm8775 2-001b: chip found @ 0x36 (ivtv i2c driver #1)
Nov 4 21:20:11 mythtv kernel: tveeprom 2-0050: Hauppauge model 26032, rev C199, serial# 2978335
Nov 4 21:20:11 mythtv kernel: tveeprom 2-0050: tuner model is TCL 2002N 5H (idx 99, type 50)
Nov 4 21:20:11 mythtv kernel: tveeprom 2-0050: TV standards NTSC(M) (eeprom 0x08)
Nov 4 21:20:11 mythtv kernel: tveeprom 2-0050: audio processor is CX25841 (idx 35)
Nov 4 21:20:11 mythtv kernel: tveeprom 2-0050: decoder processor is CX25841 (idx 28)
Nov 4 21:20:11 mythtv kernel: tveeprom 2-0050: has no radio, has IR remote
Nov 4 21:20:12 mythtv kernel: ivtv1: loaded v4l-cx2341x-enc.fw firmware (262144 bytes)
Nov 4 21:20:12 mythtv kernel: ivtv1: Encoder revision: 0x02050032
Nov 4 21:20:12 mythtv kernel: ivtv1: Allocate DMA encoder MPEG stream: 128 x 32768 buffers (4096KB total)
Nov 4 21:20:12 mythtv kernel: ivtv1: Allocate DMA encoder YUV stream: 194 x 10800 buffers (2048KB total)
Nov 4 21:20:12 mythtv kernel: ivtv1: Allocate DMA encoder VBI stream: 120 x 17472 buffers (2048KB total)
Nov 4 21:20:12 mythtv kernel: ivtv1: Allocate DMA encoder PCM audio stream: 455 x 4608 buffers (2048KB total)
Nov 4 21:20:12 mythtv kernel: tuner 2-0061: type set to 50 (TCL 2002N)
Nov 4 21:20:12 mythtv kernel: ivtv1: Initialized Hauppauge WinTV PVR-150, card #1
Nov 4 21:20:12 mythtv kernel: ivtv: ==================== END INIT IVTV ====================

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Pentium 4 2.8
ECS 648FX-A Socket 478 SIS 648FX
2 x Kreton 512MB400 (PC 3200)
4 x Seagate 300GB
XFX PVT35LNA Geforce FX5900XT 128MB
2 x Hauppauge PVR-150
NEC Black IDE DVD Burner Model ND-1300A

Do not scan for channels if you're using Zap2it. You'll roach your lineup. Now you've got to go into mythtv-setup, drop all of the Video Sources and start again. When you do, under General make sure that you've got the right frequency set selected, and and when you set up your Input Connections (for the tuner on both cards) make sure you leave them pointing to the default. frequency set so that it uses that.

http://www.knoppmythwiki.org/index.php? ... WatchingTV

OBTW - Don't forget to check your physical connections and make sure you're not cascading splitters and ending up with a degraded signal.

I have tried even pulling cable from the next room but nothing over channel 13 on this one card. Redid the whole mythtv-setup. I did not scan for any channels while the backend was off. restarted the backend and just get snow on anything over channel 13 on the 1 card.

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Pentium 4 2.8
ECS 648FX-A Socket 478 SIS 648FX
2 x Kreton 512MB400 (PC 3200)
4 x Seagate 300GB
XFX PVT35LNA Geforce FX5900XT 128MB
2 x Hauppauge PVR-150
NEC Black IDE DVD Burner Model ND-1300A

I have a very similar situation: two PVR 150s. One sees all the channels just fine, the other is snow on all channels. I've checked the physical connection, and all seems to connected correctly. However, nothing but snow on the second card.

I've tried:
1) Setting up both cards to the same video source
2) Setting up each card to a different video source (which gives me duplicates of every channel, but still no joy)

Any suggestions as to what to try next?

RexDart
I ran into the same problem. Do you have 1 card with remote 1 without? It seems that they need to be set seperately. There is a terrible explanation at http://ivtvdriver.org/index.php/Howto on how to set ivtv options for dual cards. Anyway my /etc/modprobe.conf looks like this Seems to work perfectly.

- You should only need the second lne. The comma seperated types should match the order that the cards are identified in your dmesg log.

- For the benefit of future newbies, _do not do this blindly_. Make sure that the types specified are appropriate for you PVR card. See the troubleshooting pages on the wiki for how to determine this.