Mailing List Archive: RE: Sudden loss of audio

RE: Sudden loss of audio - SOLVED

Jan 7, 2006, 12:12 AM

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>> Try also a cold reboot. The PVR's retain their firmware across warm
>> reboots, but if you turn the box off for a few seconds, then back on,
>> ivtv reloading the firmware might work. It's not like they
>> put ECC memory on PVR's, after all!

> Will-do.
> A TV gets a loverly picture on TV one using the same aerial and
> everything. Thus its my card which is dicky. Not happy.

Well that was interesting.

It turns out that I was loading the ivtv module with a parameter of
"tuner=57" I can't quite remember where that came from, but it was the
cause of all my problems.

From dmesg...
tuner: type set to 57 (Philips FQ1236A MK4) by ivtv i2c driver #0
Apparently this is an NTSC tuner.

If I just load the ivtv module with no tuner= line, it autodetects this:
tuner: type set to 38 (Philips PAL/SECAM multi (FM1216ME MK3)) by ivtv i2c
driver #0

I've now got better quality image on all channels except ATV, and prime is
in colour and TV One has sound.

I'm happy now :)

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RE: Sudden loss of audio - SOLVED [ In reply to ]

nick at rout

Jan 7, 2006, 11:37 PM

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On Sat, January 7, 2006 9:12 pm, criggie@criggie.dyndns.org said:
>
> Well that was interesting.
>
> It turns out that I was loading the ivtv module with a parameter of
> "tuner=57" I can't quite remember where that came from, but it was the
> cause of all my problems.
>
> From dmesg...
> tuner: type set to 57 (Philips FQ1236A MK4) by ivtv i2c driver #0
> Apparently this is an NTSC tuner.
>
> If I just load the ivtv module with no tuner= line, it autodetects this:
> tuner: type set to 38 (Philips PAL/SECAM multi (FM1216ME MK3)) by ivtv i2c
> driver #0
>
> I've now got better quality image on all channels except ATV, and prime is
> in colour and TV One has sound.
>
> I'm happy now :)

When I first got my PVR-150 I put all sorts of parameters for the module
with very mixed results (all the parameters were mentioned in various
howtos). However just oading the module with no parameters and allowing
auto detection to do its thing solved all my problems.

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RE: Sudden loss of audio - SOLVED [ In reply to ]

zilla at paradise

Jan 8, 2006, 1:35 AM

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Same here - most of the online guides that suggest all the different
no_black_magic and suchlike parameters were for versions of ivtv way older
than the current generation. Just modprobing it with no parameters picks
both my 150s up no problem now.

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Subject: RE: [mythtvnz] Sudden loss of audio - SOLVED

On Sat, January 7, 2006 9:12 pm, criggie@criggie.dyndns.org said:
>
> Well that was interesting.
>
> It turns out that I was loading the ivtv module with a parameter of
> "tuner=57" I can't quite remember where that came from, but it was
> the cause of all my problems.
>
> From dmesg...
> tuner: type set to 57 (Philips FQ1236A MK4) by ivtv i2c driver #0
> Apparently this is an NTSC tuner.
>
> If I just load the ivtv module with no tuner= line, it autodetects this:
> tuner: type set to 38 (Philips PAL/SECAM multi (FM1216ME MK3)) by ivtv
> i2c driver #0
>
> I've now got better quality image on all channels except ATV, and
> prime is in colour and TV One has sound.
>
> I'm happy now :)

When I first got my PVR-150 I put all sorts of parameters for the module
with very mixed results (all the parameters were mentioned in various
howtos). However just oading the module with no parameters and allowing auto
detection to do its thing solved all my problems.

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