Re: WinTV PVR PCI
- Date: Sun, 04 May 2008 21:03:39 -0400
- From: Andy Walls <awalls@xxxxxxxxx>
- Subject: Re: WinTV PVR PCI
On Sun, 2008-05-04 at 12:43 -0700, Xefur Ragnarok wrote:
> When you mentioned that there might be a corrupt line in the card's
> hardware, I decided to take it out and remove any dust from it, and
> switched the slot that it was in. It came back up and was recognized
> immediately, and worked immediately as well.
Excellent. :)
> I sincerely appreciate you sticking with me, even though there wasnt
> really anything wrong lol....
>
> Thanks for your time!
>
> Timothy
You're welcome. Glad to help.
-Andy
> Andy Walls <awalls@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > I looked through the contents of the bttv driver source, and saw where
> > the 0070:4500 line is, and what it says it is. But what is still
> > making me wonder if it is related to the PCI ID is when I do lspci it
> > says its an unknown board:
> >
> > 01:02.0 Multimedia video controller: Unknown device 009e:036e (rev 11)
> > 01:02.1 Multimedia controller: Unknown device 009e:0878 (rev 11)
>
> Don't worry about lspci, even if it doesn't know, the proper driver can
> know. The 009e is really supposed to be 109e for Brooktree. Somehow
> the configuration data on the card got mangled (or maybe the card has a
> bad data line or some other defect?).
>
>
> > lspci -nv
> >
> > 01:02.0 0400: 009e:036e (rev 11)
> > Subsystem: 0070:4500
> > Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 9
> > Memory at d6afc000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=8K]
> > Capabilities: [44] Vital Product Data
> > Capabilities: [4c] Power Management version 2
> >
> > 01:02.1 0480: 009e:0878 (rev 11)
> > Subsystem: 0070:4500
> > Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 9
> > Memory at d6afe000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=8K]
> > Capabilities: [44] Vital Product Data
> > Capabilities: [4c] Power Management version 2
> >
> > The subsystem is right, but the main vendor ID of the card is
> > unrecognized anywhere. Its not even listed on the PCI-ID's website.
>
> The 0070 is Hauppauge's ID. The 009e:0878 is really supposed to be
> 109e:0878 for Brooktree's Bt878 chip. I believe Conexant swallowed up
> Brooktree; Brooktree is long defunct.
>
> > The card I have is apparently ancient. I'm positive that its a winTV
> > PVR/PCI card though. Maybe I should just buy a new card? lol...
>
> Maybe, but not because it's old, but because it's configuration data is
> slightly corrupt, one has to wonder what other problems the card has.
> Good luck.
>
> -Andy
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