[pvrusb2] HVR-1950 requires procreload=1?

[Roger]

On Thu, 2009-06-11 at 08:48 -0500, Mike Isely wrote:
> On Thu, 11 Jun 2009, Roger wrote:

> > I have a working hvr-1950.  Only after reboot/cold start without first
> > power cycling the HVR-1950 do I get the following problems.  
> > 
> > Once booted, I perform "rmmod pvrusb2 && modprobe pvrusb2" and usually
> > then the HVR-1950 is initialized properly.
> 
> So far you are the only one experiencing these issues.
> 
> Can anyone else confirm this?
> 
> 
> >  
> > > > What is notable to me are the following lines:
> > > > 
> > > > s5h1411_readreg: readreg error (ret == -5)
> > > > pvrusb2: unregistering DVB devices
> > > > device: 'dvb0.net0': device_unregister
> > > > 
> > > > 
> > > > s5h1411_readreg seems to be v4l-dvb related.
> > > > 
> > > > ret == -5 probably isn't a good thing.
> > > > 
> > > 
> > > Yes, it's a driver for the tuner within your device.  The error return 
> > > indicates an I2C transfer failure ("-5" means EIO).
> > > 

> 
> Again, can anyone else observe this behavior?
> 
>   -Mike

I'm also watching the "s5h1411_readreg: readreg error (ret == -5)"
thread on linux-media mailing list.

If there's something you want me to hack/debug, let me know.  I'll do my
best to make time here.


-- 
Roger
http://rogerx.freeshell.org