I have an r4v2 install that was upgraded via the debs to r4v4.1. It has been working fine with a pvr350. Due to an ordering snaffu (a whole other story...), I ended up with 4 additional pvr250 cards. When I add 1 pvr250, rerun mythtv-setup, etc, everything works fine (1 pvr350, 1 pvr250).

When I then add a second pvr250 (1 pvr350, 2 pvr250's), the launch of the xserver dies. It shows the console dialogs about reading the xserver log to debug, and asks to run xconfig, etc.

I have an nvidia 5200 video card and have been using the nvidia driver from knoppmyth with no problem. The cpu is an Athlon64 3000, 1 gig ram, MSI K8T Neo mainboard.

I tried moving all the tv cards into different pci slots, but whenever I have two pvr250 and one pvr350 card installed, I can't launch x.

(FYI, two more pvr250's will arrive tomorrow and I'll try it with 3 pvr250's to see what happens.)

Any ideas?

Thanks,
Dan

Probably a conflict between the PVRs taking and IRQ or sharing with your video card. Check you BIOS, disable PnP and manually assign IRQs to the slots.

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cesman

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not sure what your problem is but man could I use some hardware love like you're getting. A a64 with a gig of ram and 5 tuner cards to play with, for a video machine, I can't imagine. My desktop gaming system is not nearly that powerful.

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Have a question search the forum and have a look at the KnoppMythWiki.

Xsecrets

Some more info: The x error messages say there are Screens found, but none with a usable configuration.

Xsecrets: yea, it's nice, except KnoppMyth has been working so well, my family depends on it now. I was only allowed to buy the gear when I promised "she who must be obeyed" I'd build her a pvr. Now, I'm afraid to "play" too much 'cause if I totally break it, they'll skin me alive.

I can't get more than two pvr cards working at once. (pvr350 and 250's, or all 250's). As soon as I have more than two pvr's installed, the xserver gives me the "no screens found" - "no screen with valid configuration" - "can't load nvidia kernel module"....

lspci -v tells me the nvidia card is using irg 16.

the pvr's are using 16, 17, and 18 (with 3 installed). 16 and 17 with two installed.

My bios only allows me to assign irq 3,4,5,7,9,10, or 11. And even when I set the bios to Non-PNP OS, and manually assign irq's to PCI slots via the bios, the cards still seem to grab irq 16 and up. Just for kicks, I also flashed in the latest bios, but that made no difference.

Still seems like hardware conflict... lspci -v to see what is using which IRQ.

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cesman

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here's output of lspci with one 350 (slot 2), two 250's (slot 3, 4), slot 1 and 5 empty.


$ lspci -v
00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc.: Unknown device 3188 (rev 01)
Subsystem: VIA Technologies, Inc.: Unknown device 3188
Flags: bus master, 66Mhz, medium devsel, latency 8
Memory at d0000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=128M]
Capabilities: <available only to root>

00:01.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc.: Unknown device b188 (prog-if 00 [Normal decode])
Flags: bus master, 66Mhz, medium devsel, latency 0
Bus: primary=00, secondary=01, subordinate=01, sec-latency=0
Memory behind bridge: cde00000-cfefffff
Prefetchable memory behind bridge: a5d00000-b5cfffff
Capabilities: <available only to root>

00:06.0 Multimedia video controller: Internext Compression Inc iTVC15 MPEG-2 Encoder (rev 01)
Subsystem: Hauppauge computer works Inc.: Unknown device 4000
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 17
Memory at c8000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=64M]
Capabilities: <available only to root>

00:07.0 Multimedia video controller: Internext Compression Inc: Unknown device 0016 (rev 01)
Subsystem: Hauppauge computer works Inc.: Unknown device 4009
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 18
Memory at c4000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=64M]
Capabilities: <available only to root>

00:08.0 Multimedia video controller: Internext Compression Inc: Unknown device 0016 (rev 01)
Subsystem: Hauppauge computer works Inc.: Unknown device 4009
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 19
Memory at c0000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=64M]
Capabilities: <available only to root>

00:0b.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8169 (rev 10)
Subsystem: Micro-Star International Co., Ltd.: Unknown device 702c
Flags: bus master, 66Mhz, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 16
I/O ports at ec00 [size=256]
Memory at cfffff00 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256]
Expansion ROM at cffc0000 [disabled] [size=128K]
Capabilities: <available only to root>

00:0f.0 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C586/B/686A/B PIPC Bus Master IDE (rev 06) (prog-if 8a [Master SecP PriP])
Subsystem: Micro-Star International Co., Ltd.: Unknown device 7020
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32
I/O ports at fc00 [size=16]
Capabilities: <available only to root>

00:10.0 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB (rev 81) (prog-if 00 [UHCI])
Subsystem: Micro-Star International Co., Ltd.: Unknown device 7020
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 21
I/O ports at dc00 [size=32]
Capabilities: <available only to root>

00:10.1 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB (rev 81) (prog-if 00 [UHCI])
Subsystem: Micro-Star International Co., Ltd.: Unknown device 7020
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 21
I/O ports at e000 [size=32]
Capabilities: <available only to root>

00:10.2 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB (rev 81) (prog-if 00 [UHCI])
Subsystem: Micro-Star International Co., Ltd.: Unknown device 7020
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 21
I/O ports at e400 [size=32]
Capabilities: <available only to root>

00:10.3 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB (rev 81) (prog-if 00 [UHCI])
Subsystem: Micro-Star International Co., Ltd.: Unknown device 7020
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 21
I/O ports at e800 [size=32]
Capabilities: <available only to root>

00:10.4 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB 2.0 (rev 86) (prog-if 20 [EHCI])
Subsystem: Micro-Star International Co., Ltd.: Unknown device 7020
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 21
Memory at cffffd00 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256]
Capabilities: <available only to root>

00:11.0 ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc.: Unknown device 3227
Subsystem: VIA Technologies, Inc.: Unknown device 3227
Flags: bus master, stepping, medium devsel, latency 0
Capabilities: <available only to root>

00:11.5 Multimedia audio controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8233 AC97 Audio Controller (rev 60)
Subsystem: Micro-Star International Co., Ltd.: Unknown device 0080
Flags: medium devsel, IRQ 22
I/O ports at d800 [size=256]
Capabilities: <available only to root>

00:18.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 NorthBridge
Flags: fast devsel
Capabilities: <available only to root>

00:18.1 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 NorthBridge
Flags: fast devsel

00:18.2 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 NorthBridge
Flags: fast devsel

00:18.3 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 NorthBridge
Flags: fast devsel

01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation: Unknown device 0322 (rev a1) (prog-if 00 [VGA])
Flags: bus master, 66Mhz, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 16
Memory at ce000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16M]
Memory at a8000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=128M]
Expansion ROM at cfee0000 [disabled] [size=128K]
Capabilities: <available only to root>

Came across this one today... don't know if it applies to your problem / setup:

http://www.randrtechnologies.com/howto/ivtv/errors/Recompile.html

Didn't try it out (I only have 2 capture cards, 1 x PVR350 and 1 x PVR250) myself, just bookmarked it, in case I'll need it someday.