[linux-dvb] Nova-T 500 issues - losing one tuner

[Philip Pemberton]

Patrik Hansson wrote:
> 20:37:40 up 1 day, 8 min ...and counting, both tuners working fine.
> 
> There are two:
> [14153.150380] mt2060 I2C read failed
> [18967.903269] mt2060 I2C read failed
> recorded in dmesg but nothing fatal.

philpem at dragon:~$ uptime
  19:06:28 up 23:42,  3 users,  load average: 1.19, 1.22, 1.18

And the log is full of this crap:
Feb 28 06:29:13 dragon syslogd 1.5.0#1ubuntu1: restart.
Feb 28 06:29:13 dragon kernel: [39865.332785] cx24123_readreg: reg=0x14 
(error=-121)
Feb 28 06:29:13 dragon kernel: [39865.333946] cx24123_readreg: reg=0x20 
(error=-121)
Feb 28 06:29:13 dragon kernel: [39865.432586] cx24123_readreg: reg=0x14 
(error=-121)
Feb 28 06:29:13 dragon kernel: [39865.433733] cx24123_readreg: reg=0x20 
(error=-121)
Feb 28 06:29:13 dragon kernel: [39865.532380] cx24123_readreg: reg=0x14 
(error=-121)
Feb 28 06:29:13 dragon kernel: [39865.533473] cx24123_readreg: reg=0x20 
(error=-121)
Feb 28 06:29:13 dragon kernel: [39865.632210] cx24123_readreg: reg=0x14 
(error=-121)
Feb 28 06:29:13 dragon kernel: [39865.633301] cx24123_readreg: reg=0x20 
(error=-121)
Feb 28 06:29:13 dragon kernel: [39865.731998] cx24123_readreg: reg=0x14 
(error=-121)
Feb 28 06:29:13 dragon kernel: [39865.733092] cx24123_readreg: reg=0x20 
(error=-121)
Feb 28 06:29:14 dragon kernel: [39865.831820] cx24123_readreg: reg=0x14 
(error=-121)
Feb 28 06:29:14 dragon kernel: [39866.374256] mt2060 I2C write failed (len=2)
Feb 28 06:29:14 dragon kernel: [39866.374262] mt2060 I2C write failed (len=6)
Feb 28 06:29:14 dragon kernel: [39866.374264] mt2060 I2C read failed
Feb 28 06:29:14 dragon kernel: [39866.382298] mt2060 I2C read failed
Feb 28 06:29:14 dragon kernel: [39866.390210] mt2060 I2C read failed
Feb 28 06:29:14 dragon kernel: [39866.398195] mt2060 I2C read failed
Feb 28 06:29:14 dragon kernel: [39866.406181] mt2060 I2C read failed
Feb 28 06:29:14 dragon kernel: [39866.414175] mt2060 I2C read failed
Feb 28 06:29:14 dragon kernel: [39866.422213] mt2060 I2C read failed
Feb 28 06:29:14 dragon kernel: [39866.430162] mt2060 I2C read failed

And the tuner is utterly shot. It worked for most of one recording, then 
promptly died.

*sigh*

Patrik, just out of curiosity, what kernel are you running?
I'm running 2.6.24-8-generic on Mythbuntu 8.04 alpha 2 and thinking about 
downgrading to an earlier kernel.

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