Hauppage HVR-2250 - No Free Sequences

Hauppage HVR-2250 - No Free Sequences

[Kyle Sanderson]

Hi All,

So I've been using my tuner for a couple years now with tvheadend,
works great :-). However, eventually I encounter something like this
in my dmesg

[585870.001641] saa7164_cmd_send() No free sequences
[585870.001645] saa7164_api_i2c_write() error, ret(1) = 0xc
[585870.001650] tda10048_writereg: writereg error (ret == -5)
[585870.024809] saa7164_cmd_send() No free sequences
[585870.024820] saa7164_api_i2c_read() error, ret(1) = 0xc
[585870.024826] tda10048_readreg: readreg error (ret == -5)
[585870.024838] saa7164_cmd_send() No free sequences
[585870.024843] saa7164_api_i2c_read() error, ret(1) = 0xc
[585870.024848] tda10048_readreg: readreg error (ret == -5)
[585870.024856] saa7164_cmd_send() No free sequences
[585870.024861] saa7164_api_i2c_write() error, ret(1) = 0xc
[585870.024866] tda10048_writereg: writereg error (ret == -5)
[585870.024878] saa7164_cmd_send() No free sequences
[585870.024883] saa7164_api_i2c_write() error, ret(1) = 0xc

The result is the card stops accepting commands; won't tune to other
frequencies. Rebooting the box seems to resolve it. The time before
that starts occurring though varies wildly, usually when it's stormy
and the ATSC antenna starts cutting in and out (reflection off of the
tree).

Is there another way I can get around doing that? would rmmod/insmod work?

Looking on the Hauppage site it looks like they're still developing
drivers for it ( ftp://ftp.hauppauge.com/Support/HVR2250/ ). From
google-ing around, it looks like people are still using the firmware
that Steven Toth ripped in 2011.

Any tips? I've tried a couple horrible kernel patches but didn't get anywhere.
Kyle.

Re: Hauppage HVR-2250 - No Free Sequences

[Kyle Sanderson]

[    9.327707] saa7164 driver loaded
[    9.328739] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LN4A] enabled at IRQ 19
[    9.329585] CORE saa7164[0]: subsystem: 0070:8851, board: Hauppauge
WinTV-HVR2250 [card=7,autodetected]
[    9.329592] saa7164[0]/0: found at 0000:05:00.0, rev: 129, irq: 19,
latency: 0, mmio: 0xfe800000
[    9.460023] saa7164_downloadfirmware() no first image
[    9.460034] saa7164_downloadfirmware() Waiting for firmware upload
(NXP7164-2010-03-10.1.fw)
[    9.684071] saa7164_downloadfirmware() firmware read 4019072 bytes.
[    9.684076] saa7164_downloadfirmware() firmware loaded.
[    9.684077] Firmware file header part 1:
[    9.684080]  .FirmwareSize = 0x0
[    9.684081]  .BSLSize = 0x0
[    9.684083]  .Reserved = 0x3d538
[    9.684084]  .Version = 0x3
[    9.684086] saa7164_downloadfirmware() SecBootLoader.FileSize = 4019072
[    9.684092] saa7164_downloadfirmware() FirmwareSize = 0x1fd6
[    9.684094] saa7164_downloadfirmware() BSLSize = 0x0
[    9.684096] saa7164_downloadfirmware() Reserved = 0x0
[    9.684098] saa7164_downloadfirmware() Version = 0x1661c00
[   16.496685] saa7164_downloadimage() Image downloaded, booting...
[   16.600015] saa7164_downloadimage() Image booted successfully.
[   16.600040] starting firmware download(2)
[   19.166683] saa7164_downloadimage() Image downloaded, booting...
[   21.130015] saa7164_downloadimage() Image booted successfully.
[   21.130040] firmware download complete.
[   21.177186] tveeprom 1-0000: Hauppauge model 88061, rev C4F2, serial#
[   21.177193] tveeprom 1-0000: MAC address is 00:0d:fe:xx:xx:xx
[   21.177196] tveeprom 1-0000: tuner model is NXP 18271C2_716x (idx
152, type 4)
[   21.177200] tveeprom 1-0000: TV standards NTSC(M) ATSC/DVB Digital
(eeprom 0x88)
[   21.177203] tveeprom 1-0000: audio processor is SAA7164 (idx 43)
[   21.177205] tveeprom 1-0000: decoder processor is SAA7164 (idx 40)
[   21.177208] tveeprom 1-0000: has radio, has IR receiver, has no IR
transmitter
[   21.177210] saa7164[0]: Hauppauge eeprom: model=88061
[   21.544594] tda18271 2-0060: creating new instance
[   21.549445] TDA18271HD/C2 detected @ 2-0060
[   21.781995] DVB: registering new adapter (saa7164)
[   21.782011] saa7164 0000:05:00.0: DVB: registering adapter 0
frontend 0 (Samsung S5H1411 QAM/8VSB Frontend)...
[   22.071439] tda18271 3-0060: creating new instance
[   22.075732] TDA18271HD/C2 detected @ 3-0060
[   22.298139] tda18271: performing RF tracking filter calibration
[   24.573984] tda18271: RF tracking filter calibration complete
[   24.578058] DVB: registering new adapter (saa7164)
[   24.578074] saa7164 0000:05:00.0: DVB: registering adapter 1
frontend 0 (Samsung S5H1411 QAM/8VSB Frontend)...
[   24.579110] saa7164[0]: registered device video0 [mpeg]
[   24.809340] saa7164[0]: registered device video1 [mpeg]
[   25.020165] saa7164[0]: registered device vbi0 [vbi]
[   25.020333] saa7164[0]: registered device vbi1 [vbi]

Kernel: 3.12.21-gentoo-r1

On Fri, Oct 31, 2014 at 8:55 AM, Kyle Sanderson <kyle.leet@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> So I've been using my tuner for a couple years now with tvheadend,
> works great :-). However, eventually I encounter something like this
> in my dmesg
>
> [585870.001641] saa7164_cmd_send() No free sequences
> [585870.001645] saa7164_api_i2c_write() error, ret(1) = 0xc
> [585870.001650] tda10048_writereg: writereg error (ret == -5)
> [585870.024809] saa7164_cmd_send() No free sequences
> [585870.024820] saa7164_api_i2c_read() error, ret(1) = 0xc
> [585870.024826] tda10048_readreg: readreg error (ret == -5)
> [585870.024838] saa7164_cmd_send() No free sequences
> [585870.024843] saa7164_api_i2c_read() error, ret(1) = 0xc
> [585870.024848] tda10048_readreg: readreg error (ret == -5)
> [585870.024856] saa7164_cmd_send() No free sequences
> [585870.024861] saa7164_api_i2c_write() error, ret(1) = 0xc
> [585870.024866] tda10048_writereg: writereg error (ret == -5)
> [585870.024878] saa7164_cmd_send() No free sequences
> [585870.024883] saa7164_api_i2c_write() error, ret(1) = 0xc
>
> The result is the card stops accepting commands; won't tune to other
> frequencies. Rebooting the box seems to resolve it. The time before
> that starts occurring though varies wildly, usually when it's stormy
> and the ATSC antenna starts cutting in and out (reflection off of the
> tree).
>
> Is there another way I can get around doing that? would rmmod/insmod work?
>
> Looking on the Hauppage site it looks like they're still developing
> drivers for it ( ftp://ftp.hauppauge.com/Support/HVR2250/ ). From
> google-ing around, it looks like people are still using the firmware
> that Steven Toth ripped in 2011.
>
> Any tips? I've tried a couple horrible kernel patches but didn't get anywhere.
> Kyle.

Re: Hauppage HVR-2250 - No Free Sequences

[David Harty]

Kyle Sanderson <kyle.leet <at> gmail.com> writes:

> >
> > [585870.001641] saa7164_cmd_send() No free sequences
> > [585870.001645] saa7164_api_i2c_write() error, ret(1) = 0xc
> > [585870.001650] tda10048_writereg: writereg error (ret == -5)
> >
> > Any tips? I've tried a couple horrible kernel patches but didn't get
anywhere.
> > Kyle.
> 


I simply wanted to add the I have also started seeing this error recently so
Kyle is not alone in this.

I have tried combinations of all of the firmwares on the steventoth site in
conjunction with the saa7164 driver in the vanilla 3.11.10-25 kernel.

It requires a reboot to effectively reload the firmware.

Regards,