[ivtv-devel] Does anyone have an operational M179 with any recent ivtv versions?

[Robert K. <bo...@sm...>]

I've posted about this before, but never got a response.  I've googled 
for the error message, but didn't find anything.

This is a system running Mandrake, which works.

ivtv: version 0.1.10 (0.1.10pre2-ck100b) loading
May 15 19:53:42 mythtv kernel: ivtv: Autodetected AVerMedia M179 card
May 15 19:53:42 mythtv kernel: ivtv: Found an iTVC15 based chip
May 15 19:53:42 mythtv kernel: ivtv: Unreasonably low latency timer, 
setting to 64 (was 32)
May 15 19:53:42 mythtv kernel: ivtv: pci: PCIBUS detected device: 0x2570 
vendor: 0x8086
May 15 19:53:42 mythtv kernel: tveeprom: Encountered bad packet header 
[04]. Corrupt or not a Hauppauge eeprom.
May 15 19:53:42 mythtv kernel: ivtv: i2c attach [client=tveeprom[1],ok]
May 15 19:53:42 mythtv kernel: tuner: chip found @ 0xc0
May 15 19:53:42 mythtv kernel: tuner(bttv): type forced to 2 (Philips 
NTSC (FI1236,FM1236 and compatibles)) [insmod]
May 15 19:53:42 mythtv kernel: ivtv: i2c attach [client=Philips NTSC 
(FI1236,FM1236 and,ok]
May 15 19:53:42 mythtv kernel: saa7115: starting probe for adapter ivtv 
i2c driver #1 (0x10005)
May 15 19:53:42 mythtv kernel: saa7115: detecting saa7115 client on 
address 0x42
May 15 19:53:42 mythtv kernel: saa7115: writing init values
May 15 19:53:42 mythtv kernel: ivtv: i2c attach [client=saa7115[1],ok]
May 15 19:53:42 mythtv kernel: saa7115: status: (1E) 0x00, (1F) 0xc8
May 15 19:53:43 mythtv kernel: ivtv: Encoder revision: 0x02040011
May 15 19:53:43 mythtv kernel: ivtv: Decoder revision: 0x02020023
May 15 19:53:43 mythtv kernel: ivtv: Configuring AVerMedia M179 card 
with 4 streams
May 15 19:53:43 mythtv kernel: ivtv: Create DMA stream 0 using 256 
buffers of size 32768
May 15 19:53:43 mythtv kernel: ivtv: Create DMA stream 1 using 32 
buffers of size 32768
May 15 19:53:43 mythtv kernel: ivtv: Create stream 2 using 64 buffers of 
size 52224
May 15 19:53:43 mythtv kernel: ivtv: Create DMA stream 3 using 32 
buffers of size 32768
May 15 19:53:43 mythtv kernel: ivtv: Could not detect tuner standard, 
defaulting to NTSC.
May 15 19:53:43 mythtv kernel: ivtv: Switching standard to NTSC.
May 15 19:53:43 mythtv kernel: saa7115: decoder set norm NTSC
May 15 19:53:43 mythtv kernel: saa7115: set audio: 0x01
May 15 19:53:43 mythtv kernel: ivtv: Initialized AVerMedia M179, card #1

This is a Gentoo 2005 machine.  Doesn't work:

ivtv: version 0.2.0 (rc3j) loading
ivtv: Linux version: 2.6.11-gentoo-r6 SMP 486 gcc-3.3
ivtv: In case of problems please include the debug info
ivtv: between the START INIT IVTV and END INIT IVTV lines when
ivtv: mailing the ivtv-devel mailinglist.
ivtv: Autodetected AVerMedia M179 card
ivtv: Found an iTVC15 based chip
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:0d.0[A] -> GSI 5 (level, low) -> IRQ 5
ivtv: XXX PCI device: 0x7190 vendor: 0x8086
tuner: Ignoring new-style parameters in presence of obsolete ones
saa7115: starting probe for adapter SMBus PIIX4 adapter at e800 (0x0)
saa7115: starting probe for adapter ivtv i2c driver #0 (0x10005)
saa7115: detecting saa7115 client on address 0x42
saa7115: writing init values
ivtv: i2c attach [client=saa7115[0],ok]
saa7115: status: (1E) 0x00, (1F) 0xc8
ivtv: Encoder revision: 0x02040011
ivtv: Decoder revision: 0x02020023
ivtv: Configuring AVerMedia M179 card with 4 streams
ivtv: Create DMA stream 0 using 256 16384 byte buffers  4194304 kbytes total
ivtv: Registered v4l2 device, streamtype 0 minor 0
ivtv: Create DMA stream 1
ivtv: Registered v4l2 device, streamtype 1 minor 32
ivtv: Create stream 2 using 40 52224 byte buffers  2097152 kbytes total
ivtv: Registered v4l2 device, streamtype 2 minor 224
ivtv: Create DMA stream 3 using 455 4608 byte buffers  2097152 kbytes total
ivtv: Registered v4l2 device, streamtype 3 minor 24
ivtv: Setting Tuner 2
ivtv: i2c client id: 0x02 not found!
ivtv: Could not detect tuner standard, defaulting to NTSC.
ivtv: i2c client id: 0x02 not found!
saa7115: decoder set input (4)
saa7115: now setting Composite input
ivtv: Switching standard to NTSC.
ivtv: i2c client id: 0x02 not found!
saa7115: decoder set norm NTSC
saa7115: set audio: 0x01
ivtv: Initialized AVerMedia M179, card #0

Same thing with 0.3.5f:
vtv: version 0.3.5 (f) loading
ivtv: Linux version: 2.6.11-gentoo-r6 SMP 486 gcc-3.3
ivtv: In case of problems please include the debug info
ivtv: between the START INIT IVTV and END INIT IVTV lines when
ivtv: mailing the ivtv-devel mailinglist.
ivtv: Autodetected AVerMedia M179 card
ivtv: Found an iTVC15 based chip
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:0d.0[A] -> GSI 5 (level, low) -> IRQ 5
ivtv: XXX PCI device: 0x7190 vendor: 0x8086
tuner: Ignoring new-style parameters in presence of obsolete ones
saa7115: starting probe for adapter SMBus PIIX4 adapter at e800 (0x0)
saa7115: starting probe for adapter ivtv i2c driver #0 (0x10005)
saa7115: detecting saa7115 client on address 0x42
saa7115: writing init values
ivtv: i2c attach [client=saa7115[50],ok]
saa7115: status: (1E) 0x00, (1F) 0xc8
ivtv: Encoder revision: 0x02040011
ivtv: Decoder revision: 0x02020023
ivtv: Configuring AVerMedia M179 card with 4 streams
ivtv: Registered v4l2 device, streamtype 0 minor 0
ivtv: Create DMA stream 0 using 128 16384 byte buffers  0 kbytes total
ivtv: Registered v4l2 device, streamtype 1 minor 32
ivtv: Create DMA stream 1 using 97 21600 byte buffers  0 kbytes total
ivtv: Registered v4l2 device, streamtype 2 minor 224
ivtv: Create DMA stream 2 using 60 34656 byte buffers  0 kbytes total
ivtv: Registered v4l2 device, streamtype 3 minor 24
ivtv: Create DMA stream 3 using 455 4608 byte buffers  0 kbytes total
ivtv: Setting Tuner 2
ivtv: i2c client id: 0x02 not found!
saa7115: decoder set norm NTSC
saa7115: set audio: 0x01
ivtv: i2c client id: 0x02 not found!
saa7115: decoder set input (4)
saa7115: now setting Composite input
ivtv: Switching standard to NTSC.
ivtv: i2c client id: 0x02 not found!
saa7115: decoder set norm NTSC
saa7115: set audio: 0x01
ivtv: Initialized AVerMedia M179, card #0