[Bug 610171] [NEW] 2 problems with TV card HVR-1300

Mon Jul 26 18:13:03 UTC 2010

Public bug reported:

I have an Asus P5K motherboard, architecture x86_64, under Ubuntu 10.04,
but I just tested my hardware with a Fedora 13 Live CD, I have the same
problems; I bought some months ago an HVR-1300, in order to use the mpeg
encoder on the board.

>From the moment I installed the card, I use to have two problems :
problem #1 : the boot stalls often, at some moment around the local disk mount; and a simple Reset or Power off/Power on, often are not sufficient. Now it's getting pretty annoying, especially because it's a random issue, BUT a frequent one; it makes me think of a race condition into the new Upstart parallel structure for the services startup at boot. But with the HVR-1300 unplugged the boot performs correctly !

problem #2 : I have a TV decoder shipped by my TV provider, so I don't
change the channels on the HVR-1300 but on the decoder; thus I use to
watch TV in this simple way :

mplayer -vc mpeg12 -nocache /dev/video2 (mplayer /dev/video2 works as
well, but with some glitches)

BUT : just after booting, /dev/video2 does not output any TV image; so I
found a workaround : I start :

xawtv  -c  /dev/video1

then stop it, and restart mplayer again : and THEN the TV image is
pretty good.

Narrowing the issue towards the Linux cx88* driver :
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I noticed these two problems with Ubuntu 10.04, AND a Fedora 13 Live CD (both for x86_64)

I installed Windows 7 in a small partition, and I had none of my
problems with w7, after having installed the HVR-1300  driver for w7

Browsing the forums and mailing-lists, I found that my problem could be
an interruption problem : actually, I noticed many such messages these
days in the logs :

kernel: [   16.191887] IRQ 18/cx88[0]: IRQF_DISABLED is not guaranteed
on shared IRQs

I tried to plug the HVR-1300 into another PCI connecteor, unsuccessfully
- just the IRQ changed from 18 to 17 ....

And I did not find many cx88* options I could tune.

Does anybody have a hint ?

I may try the MainLine kernels as suggested here by apport-bug :

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/MainlineBuilds?action=show&redirect=KernelTeam%2FMainlineBuilds

But if I get the same errors with the Fedora Live CD, with kernel
2.6.33, I don't have much hope ...

Best regards
R. Grasso

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: linux-image-2.6.32-24-generic 2.6.32-24.38
Regression: No
Reproducible: Yes
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-24.38-generic 2.6.32.15+drm33.5
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-24-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
AlsaVersion: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Driver Version 1.0.21.
Architecture: amd64
CRDA: Error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory
Card0.Amixer.info:
 Card hw:0 'Intel'/'HDA Intel at 0xf5ff8000 irq 22'
   Mixer name	: 'Realtek ALC883'
   Components	: 'HDA:10ec0883,1043829f,00100002'
   Controls      : 36
   Simple ctrls  : 21
Card1.Amixer.info:
 Card hw:1 'Camera'/'OmniVision Technologies, Inc. USB Camera at usb-0000:00:1a.0-1, full speed'
   Mixer name	: 'USB Mixer'
   Components	: 'USB05a9:4519'
   Controls      : 0
   Simple ctrls  : 0
Card1.Amixer.values:

Card2.Amixer.info:
 Card hw:2 'CX8811'/'Conexant CX8811 at 0xfc000000'
   Mixer name	: 'CX88'
   Components	: ''
   Controls      : 3
   Simple ctrls  : 2
Date: Mon Jul 26 19:45:55 2010
HibernationDevice: RESUME=UUID=956dd164-e5f7-4529-829b-2bfeb8c871f1
MachineType: System manufacturer P5K
ProcCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32-24-generic root=UUID=9db8108a-446b-454a-a914-cc1049a6ed07 ro console=tty1
ProcEnviron:
 LC_COLLATE=C
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/usr/bin/tcsh
RelatedPackageVersions: linux-firmware 1.34.1
RfKill:

SourcePackage: linux
WifiSyslog:
 Jul 26 08:19:48 power4 kernel: [37924.601677] lo: Disabled Privacy Extensions
 Jul 26 08:26:34 power4 kernel: [38330.816617] lo: Disabled Privacy Extensions
 Jul 26 08:28:20 power4 kernel: [38436.278956] lo: Disabled Privacy Extensions
 Jul 26 08:30:42 power4 kernel: [38578.616189] lo: Disabled Privacy Extensions
 Jul 26 11:30:12 power4 kernel: [49348.161776] usb 1-4: reset high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 5
WpaSupplicantLog:

dmi.bios.date: 10/14/2008
dmi.bios.vendor: American Megatrends Inc.
dmi.bios.version: 1201
dmi.board.asset.tag: To Be Filled By O.E.M.
dmi.board.name: P5K
dmi.board.vendor: ASUSTeK Computer INC.
dmi.board.version: Rev 1.xx
dmi.chassis.asset.tag: Asset-1234567890
dmi.chassis.type: 3
dmi.chassis.vendor: Chassis Manufacture
dmi.chassis.version: Chassis Version
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnAmericanMegatrendsInc.:bvr1201:bd10/14/2008:svnSystemmanufacturer:pnP5K:pvrSystemVersion:rvnASUSTeKComputerINC.:rnP5K:rvrRev1.xx:cvnChassisManufacture:ct3:cvrChassisVersion:
dmi.product.name: P5K
dmi.product.version: System Version
dmi.sys.vendor: System manufacturer

** Affects: linux (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

** Tags: amd64 apport-bug lucid needs-upstream-testing

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