Asus PVR-416

I've been trying to get an ASUS PVR-416 card to work with MythTV .25 on Scientific Linux 6. I have a bttv card working, my setup works in general, etc, and the driver attempts to load. But when I check dmesg, I keep getting firmware load errors and checksum errors. I've tried every firmware I could find. I've used the one from Atrpms, I've downloaded the correctly named firmware from ivtv, but no luck. Anyone know anything about this card? I've tried cutting the drivers myself like it says in the direcitons at mythtv.org. This is supposed to be a supported card, does anyone have any experience with it?

I've been trying to get an ASUS PVR-416 card to work with MythTV .25 on Scientific Linux 6. I have a bttv card working, my setup works in general, etc, and the driver attempts to load. But when I check dmesg, I keep getting firmware load errors and checksum errors. I've tried every firmware I could find. I've used the one from Atrpms, I've downloaded the correctly named firmware from ivtv, but no luck. Anyone know anything about this card? I've tried cutting the drivers myself like it says in the direcitons at mythtv.org. This is supposed to be a supported card, does anyone have any experience with it?

I swapped PCI slots (there's 2), blew it and no change. I put it back to the firmware from atrpms, and nothing has changed. Is the checksum mismatch from what's loaded onto the card or is it the checksum of what's on the disk? I've been obsessed with getting the right firmware since I assume the checksum was from what's on the disc. Is that wrong?

And again, thanks for the help.

On Wed, Aug 1, 2012 at 7:16 AM, Jerry Haggard <[email protected]> wrote:
I've played with it a bit more. I cut the firmware out of the driver as suggested here:

http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/AVerMedia_M150-D

What I get is:

cx88[0]/2-bb: Firmware and/or mailbox pointer not initialized or corrupted
cx88-mpeg driver manager 0000:01:01.2: firmware: requesting v4l-cx2341x-enc.fw
cx88[0]/2-bb: ERROR: Firmware size mismatch (have 262144, expected 376836)

What I always got before was:

cx88[0]: subsystem: 1043:4823, board: ASUS PVR-416 [card=12,autodetected], frontend(s): 0
cx88[0]: TV tuner type 43, Radio tuner type -1
IR RC5(x) protocol handler initialized
IR RC6 protocol handler initialized
All bytes are equal. It is not a TEA5767
tuner 15-0060: Tuner -1 found with type(s) Radio TV. IR JVC protocol handler initialized
IR Sony protocol handler initialized
tda9887 15-0043: creating new instance
tda9887 15-0043: tda988[5/6/7] found
tuner 15-0043: Tuner 74 found with type(s) Radio TV. IR SANYO protocol handler initialized
IR MCE Keyboard/mouse protocol handler initialized
lirc_dev: IR Remote Control driver registered, major 248 IR LIRC bridge handler initialized
tuner-simple 15-0060: creating new instance tuner-simple 15-0060: type set to 43 (Philips NTSC MK3 (FM1236MK3 or FM1236/F))
cx88[0]/0: found at 0000:01:01.0, rev: 5, irq: 21, latency:
64, mmio: 0xdd000000
IRQ 21/cx88[0]: IRQF_DISABLED is not guaranteed on shared IRQs cx88[0]/0: registered device video0 [v4l2] cx88[0]/0: registered device vbi0
cx88[0]/0: registered device radio0
cx88/2: cx2388x MPEG-TS Driver Manager version 0.0.9 loaded cx88[0]/2: cx2388x 8802 Driver Manager
cx88-mpeg driver manager 0000:01:01.2: PCI INT A -> GSI 21 (level, low) -> IRQ 21
cx88[0]/2: found at 0000:01:01.2, rev: 5, irq: 21, latency:
64, mmio: 0xde000000
IRQ 21/cx88[0]: IRQF_DISABLED is not guaranteed on shared IRQs cx2388x blackbird driver version 0.0.9 loaded cx88/2: registering cx8802 driver, type: blackbird access:
shared
cx88[0]/2: subsystem: 1043:4823, board: ASUS PVR-416 [card=12] cx88[0]/2: cx23416 based mpeg encoder (blackbird reference design)
cx88[0]/2-bb: Firmware and/or mailbox pointer not initialized or corrupted
cx88-mpeg driver manager 0000:01:01.2: firmware: requesting v4l-cx2341x-enc.fw
parport_pc 00:06: reported by Plug and Play ACPI
parport0: PC-style at 0x378 (0x778), irq 7 [PCSPP,TRISTATE,EPP]
ppdev: user-space parallel port driver cx88[0]/2-bb: ERROR: Firmware load failed (checksum mismatch). cx88[0]/2: registered device video1 [mpeg] cx88[0]/2-bb: Firmware and/or mailbox pointer not initialized or corrupted
cx88-mpeg driver manager 0000:01:01.2: firmware: requesting v4l-cx2341x-enc.fw
cx88[0]/2-bb: ERROR: Firmware load failed (checksum mismatch).

It appears that when I give it the correct firmware it complains?

On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 6:10 PM, Andy Walls <[email protected]> wrote:
On Mon, 2012-07-30 at 06:57 -0400, Jerry Haggard wrote:
> I've been trying to get an ASUS PVR-416 card to work with MythTV .25 on
> Scientific Linux 6. I have a bttv card working, my setup works in
> general, etc, and the driver attempts to load. But when I check dmesg,
> I keep getting firmware load errors and checksum errors. I've tried
> every firmware I could find. I've used the one from Atrpms, I've
> downloaded the correctly named firmware from ivtv, but no luck. Anyone
> know anything about this card? I've tried cutting the drivers myself
> like it says in the direcitons at mythtv.org. This is supposed to be a > supported card, does anyone have any experience with it?

No experience with it. It is supposedly a Blackbird design supported by the cx88 driver.

My standard response for legacy PCI cards that are responding somewhat,
but aren't working properly, is to

1. remove all the legacy PCI cards from all the slots
2. blow the dust out of all the slots
3. if feasible, reseat only the 1 card and test again
4. reseat all the cards and test again

Since legacy PCI uses reflected wave switching, dust in any one slot can cause problems. It's a troubleshooting step that's easy enough to do.

If that doesn't work, we would need to see the output of dmesg
and/or /var/log/messages when the module is being loaded and the
firmware loaded. If providing logs, please don't just grep on the
'cx88' lines, since other modules are involved in getting the card
working.