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Old 04-30-2007, 01:31 PM   #1
darlomrh
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K8u-x + Dvb-t = Pain:(


Hi,

I was wondering if someone could shed some light on issue I'm having before I take a screwdriver to my mobo.
I'm hoping to build a mythtv box but the dvb cards wont tune to anything.

I have tried them in a old socket A board and they scan and tune.
using

scan /usr/share/doc/dvb-utils/examples/scan/dvb-t/ etc on the K8U-X

I get "WARNING: filter timeout pid <some id>" several times



lspci -vv

02:08.0 Multimedia video controller: Conexant CX23880/1/2/3 PCI Video and Audio Decoder (rev 05)
Subsystem: LeadTek Research Inc. WinFast DTV1000-T
Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV+ VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR+ FastB2B-
Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
Latency: 64 (5000ns min, 13750ns max), Cache Line Size: 64 bytes
Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 18
Region 0: Memory at fa000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16M]
Capabilities: [44] Vital Product Data
Capabilities: [4c] Power Management version 2
Flags: PMEClk- DSI+ D1- D2- AuxCurrent=0mA PME(D0-,D1-,D2-,D3hot-,D3cold-)
Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME-

02:08.2 Multimedia controller: Conexant CX23880/1/2/3 PCI Video and Audio Decoder [MPEG Port] (rev 05)
Subsystem: LeadTek Research Inc. Unknown device 665f
Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV+ VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR+ FastB2B-
Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
Latency: 64 (1500ns min, 22000ns max), Cache Line Size: 64 bytes
Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 18
Region 0: Memory at fb000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16M]
Capabilities: [4c] Power Management version 2
Flags: PMEClk- DSI+ D1- D2- AuxCurrent=0mA PME(D0-,D1-,D2-,D3hot-,D3cold-)
Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME-

dmesg

[ 25.790488] CORE cx88[0]: subsystem: 107d:665f, board: WinFast DTV1000-T [card=35,autodetected]
[ 25.882054] cx2388x cx88-mpeg Driver Manager version 0.0.6 loaded
[ 25.946103] cx88[0]/0: found at 0000:02:08.0, rev: 5, irq: 18, latency: 64, mmio: 0xfa000000
[ 25.946161] cx88[0]/0: registered device video0 [v4l2]
[ 25.946186] cx88[0]/0: registered device vbi0
[ 25.946240] cx88[0]/2: cx2388x 8802 Driver Manager
[ 25.946261] cx88[0]/2: found at 0000:02:08.2, rev: 5, irq: 18, latency: 64, mmio: 0xfb000000
[ 27.710022] cx8802_register_driver() ->registering driver type=dvb access=shared
[ 27.710026] CORE cx88[0]: subsystem: 107d:665f, board: WinFast DTV1000-T [card=35]
[ 27.710030] cx88[0]/2: cx2388x based dvb card
[ 27.755706] DVB: registering new adapter (cx88[0]).


on boot I also get this

[ 16.018855] ALI15X3: IDE controller at PCI slot 0000:00:0e.0
[ 16.018884] ALI15X3: chipset revision 199
[ 16.018886] ALI15X3: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
[ 24.536230] ali1563: SMBus control = 0403
[ 24.536271] ali1563_probe: Returning 0
[ 24.574683] ali1535_smbus 0000:00:03.1: ALI1535_smb region uninitialized - upgrade BIOS?
[ 24.574687] ali1535_smbus 0000:00:03.1: ALI1535 not detected, module not inserted.
[ 24.587759] ali15x3_smbus 0000:00:03.1: ALI15X3_smb region uninitialized - upgrade BIOS or use force_addr=0xaddr
[ 24.587810] ali15x3_smbus 0000:00:03.1: ALI15X3 not detected, module not inserted

could this be affecting the card?

any help would be great or its bye bye board
 
Old 05-02-2007, 05:08 AM   #2
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i had a weird problem like this
in the end i was too lazy to figure out how to use TV Cards in Myth.

try Kaffeine (the KDE Video Player)
it allows playback,timeshifting and scheduled DVB recording.

At least then you'll know the cards work or not.
to use DVB-t with Kaffeine you need to install
a52s, ffmpeg and Kaffeine 0.8+
 
Old 05-02-2007, 06:32 AM   #3
darlomrh
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Cheers for the reply


I pretty sure it's not the card(s) I shoved one into an old asus A7V600 via chipset MoBo and it worked using the dvb-utils scan command.


I'm investigating to see if its a DMA issue?

the thing that concerns me is the errors below
[ 24.574683] ali1535_smbus 0000:00:03.1: ALI1535_smb region uninitialized - upgrade BIOS?
[ 24.574687] ali1535_smbus 0000:00:03.1: ALI1535 not detected, module not inserted.
[ 24.587759] ali15x3_smbus 0000:00:03.1: ALI15X3_smb region uninitialized - upgrade BIOS or use force_addr=0xaddr
[ 24.587810] ali15x3_smbus 0000:00:03.1: ALI15X3 not detected, module not inserted


0000:00:03.1: is Bridge: ALi Corporation M7101 Power Management Controller [PMU]

I'm at a loss
 
Old 05-04-2007, 10:50 AM   #4
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After much poking around it looks like its a IRQ issue. The bizarre thing is its usually the second of the cards that will tune.

I.E.

16: IO-APIC-fasteoi libata, cx88[1], cx88[1]
21: IO-APIC-fasteoi eth0, cx88[0], cx88[0]

Its cx88[1] that will tune but not cx88[0]

Is there anyway to set the IRQ's manually?


Thanks
 
  


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