DM800 HD PVR : HD image freezes at startup

Dreamer

Saturday, May 21st 2011, 2:09pm

Dear all,

I am using a dm800 hd since two years or so.
I have a new problem since a couple of weeks without having changed anything (no firmware update, no changes in cables, subscriptions,... Nothing)

HDTV channels are displayed with many pixels and freeze (best case) or black screen (worst case) when I just startup the DM800. After a few minutes, pixelisation is less frequent and after 30 mins or so, it works OK
Looks like the electronic device has to warm up a little bit before functioning properly.

This happens only with HDTV, regular channels are OK.
This happens booth with crypted and FTA channels
My dishe and cables are OK. I borrowed another DM800 from a friend and this one worked OK

Any idea, suggestions, remarks, help ?

Thanks

SEB

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Sandra51

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Location: North West England

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Saturday, May 21st 2011, 2:38pm

Have you tried updating enigma 2 from the update software part of the menu to get the latest drivers as the information at the top of the page has been saying for the last couple of weeks ?

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Unfortunately, there has been a problem in all current software version of enigma2 which resulted in freezing boxes since 2011/05/01. DMM has released updated drivers which can be installed using the update mechanism in enigma2. Please update your software!

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sebsto

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Saturday, May 21st 2011, 3:36pm

I tried different images from different teams, including official, including older versions that I knew to work.
That's why I am suspecting an hardware issue.
It only occurs during the first half hour after starting (resuming from standby) the dreambox, after that, it works OK for hours

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Sandra51

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Location: North West England

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Sunday, May 22nd 2011, 2:47am

Cant think of anything that would cause that. Usually things start OK then have problems after they warm up if its a heating issue ???

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lasa

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Wednesday, September 7th 2011, 9:36pm

I have had the exact same issue, and it degraded over time, to the point where no HD channels were working any longer. A couple of months later (only watching SD) the box stopped booting and would shut itself off just after "Dream Multimedia" was displayed in the LCD. The only thing that would make my box boot was when I removed the tuner, so I figured it was the cause of the problem. Having a bought a new tuner now it seems there are other problems as well. I get to what I think is the same place where the box would shut itself off, but now it just hangs forever with the red LED lit.

Since the box needed to "heat up" before, I suspect soldering is bad somewhere, unfortunately. Did you ever solve your problems?

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lasa

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Wednesday, September 7th 2011, 10:25pm

Not sure if this really says anything, but this is as far as the logging goes before it freezes during boot (sorry for the long post):

Source code

(c) 2007,2008 Dream Multimedia GmbH. All rights reserved.
Dreambox DM800
FIRST STAGE 1.00 {BO23456}


2ND STAGE OK, build #84 (2011-09-02)


0.000  - BCM board setup
{00000126,00000126,00000125,00000124,00000123,00000133}
0.007  - fp init
0.008  - ca init
0.737  - load config
0.765  - config loaded.
 * press [S] to enter setup
0.770  - ide init
OLED found!
lcd: BOOT #84
1.094  - main control
 - read config file: /boot/secondstage.conf
1.100  - load /boot/secondstage.conf to 833000c0 (max=65535)
detected jffs2 blocksize: 16kb
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
+++++++++++++++++++++UUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU
UUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU
2.229  - jffs2 size: 2352 kb
2.231  - network: 2.233 dhcp
2.271  - starting network
2.277  - httpd, telnetd, dreamupd
dreamupd initialized
2.282  - ok. start receiving packets
2.286  - using jffs2
Scanning JFFS2 FS: . done.
find_inode failed for name=secondstage.conf
load: Failed to find inode
2.423  - size: 0
 - failed to open /boot/secondstage.conf
2.428  - not entering setup
2.431  - execute script: /cf/autorun.bat
2.434  - load /cf/autorun.bat to 833000c0 (max=65535)
2.439  - size: -1
 - failed to open /cf/autorun.bat
2.444  - force boot: -1
2.446  - try boot from 1:
2.449  - execute script: /boot/autoexec.bat
2.452  - load /boot/autoexec.bat to 833000c0 (max=65535)
2.458  - using jffs2
2.460  - size: 38
lcd: /flash/bootlogo.elf
2.467  - load /flash/bootlogo.elf to 82000000 (max=16777216)
2.472  - using jffs2
2.500  - size: 229441
2.501  - decompressing elf (compressed: 229441 bytes)
2.604  - decompression ok (uncompressed: 640540 bytes)
2.609  - loading elf image at 88000000
2.799  - jumping to 80466da0
2.801  - load /boot/bootlogo.jpg to a2800000 (max=1048576)
2.806  - using jffs2
2.854  - size: 285065
bootlogo size: 285065
***  BCHP: Invalid RTS setting detected. Forcing MEMC_0_CLIENT_INFO_7 (AVD_CAB_0) RR to true. Please see latest 7401 RTS documentation.
no HDMI device detected
no HDMI mode available, reverting to 720p
using 1280x720p (60.00 Hz)
create surface 1280 720
Using the Small jpeg decoder library, Copyright (c) 2006, Luc Saillard 
parsing JPEG header..
Virtual FB Size: 1280x720
lcd: /flash/vmlinux.gz
3.912  - load /flash/vmlinux.gz to 82000000 (max=16777216)
3.917  - using jffs2
4.132  - size: 1841896
4.134  - decompressing elf (compressed: 1841896 bytes)
4.883  - decompression ok (uncompressed: 4202755 bytes)
4.888  - loading elf image at 88000000
5.382  * Quiesce...
5.384  *** Turning off USB
5.386  *** Quiesce network...
5.389  - jumping to 80336000
<5>Linux version 2.6.18-7.4-dm800 (tmbinc@pepe) (gcc version 4.4.3 (GCC) ) #1 Sat Sep 3 16:50:36 UTC 2011
Fetching vars from bootloader... none present, using defaults.
board_init_once: regval=44ac6502, ddr_strap=3, 4 chips, pci_size=2
Detected 256 MB on board
<4>WARNING: read invalid MAC address ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff from flash @ 0xbffff824
Default command line =
root=/dev/mtdblock3 rootfstype=jffs2 rw console=null
2 831ffebc 83029b34
g_board_RAM_size=256MB
Options: sata=1 enet=1 emac_1=0 no_mdio=0 docsis=0 ebi_war=0 pci=1 smp=0
CPU revision is: 00020000
Determined physical RAM map:
 memory: 10000000 @ 00000000 (usable)
---> memsize from bootloader: 148
User-defined physical RAM map:
node [00000000, 09400000: RAM]
node [09400000, 06c00000: RSVD]
<5>Reserving 108 MB upper memory starting at 09400000
<7>On node 0 totalpages: 65536
<7>  DMA zone: 65536 pages, LIFO batch:15
Built 1 zonelists.  Total pages: 65536
<5>Kernel command line: console=ttyS0,115200 ip=dhcp root=/dev/mtdblock3 rootfstype=jffs2 rw
before init RAC 0x02a00000      0x00000000
after init RAC 0x02a0000f       0x0fff0000
[4294667.296000] Primary instruction cache 32kB, physically tagged, 2-way, linesize 16 bytes.
[4294667.296000] Primary data cache 32kB, 2-way, linesize 16 bytes.
[4294667.296000] Synthesized TLB refill handler (20 instructions).
[4294667.296000] Synthesized TLB load handler fastpath (32 instructions).
[4294667.296000] Synthesized TLB store handler fastpath (32 instructions).
[4294667.296000] Synthesized TLB modify handler fastpath (31 instructions).
[4294667.296000] timer irq 67 end 57
[4294667.296000] PID hash table entries: 2048 (order: 11, 8192 bytes)
[4294667.296000] Found MIPS counter frequency: 149 Mhz
[4294667.296000] Using 148.501 MHz high precision timer.
[4294667.296000] Console: colour dummy device 80x25
[4294667.296000] ################## brcm_serial_console_init, sercon=80301da0
[4294667.369000] Dentry cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 5, 131072 bytes)
[4294667.378000] Inode-cache hash table entries: 16384 (order: 4, 65536 bytes)
[4294667.412000] Memory: 145664k/262144k available (2685k kernel code, 116412k reserved, 594k data, 128k init, 0k highmem)
[4294667.446000] Mount-cache hash table entries: 512
[4294667.452000] Checking for 'wait' instruction...  available.
[4294667.461000] NET: Registered protocol family 16
[4294667.467000] registering PCI controller with io_map_base unset
[4294667.473000] registering PCI controller with io_map_base unset
[4294667.481000] SCSI subsystem initialized
[4294667.486000] usbcore: registered new driver usbfs
[4294667.491000] usbcore: registered new driver hub
[4294667.497000] SATA: Primary Bus Master Status Register offset = b0520000 + 00000300 = b0520300
[4294667.505000] SATA: before init Primary Bus Master Status reg = 0x00000000.
[4294667.513000] SATA: after init Primary Bus Master Status reg = 0x00000020.
[4294667.521000] NET: Registered protocol family 2
[4294667.535000] IP route cache hash table entries: 2048 (order: 1, 8192 bytes)
[4294667.543000] TCP established hash table entries: 8192 (order: 3, 32768 bytes)
[4294667.551000] TCP bind hash table entries: 4096 (order: 2, 16384 bytes)
[4294667.558000] TCP: Hash tables configured (established 8192 bind 4096)
[4294667.565000] TCP reno registered
[4294667.573000] JFFS2 version 2.2. (NAND) (C) 2001-2006 Red Hat, Inc.
[4294667.580000] Initializing Cryptographic API
[4294667.585000] io scheduler noop registered
[4294667.589000] io scheduler anticipatory registered (default)
[4294667.595000] io scheduler deadline registered
[4294667.599000] io scheduler cfq registered
[4294667.612000] Broadcom serial driver version 1.00 (2000-11-09) with SERIAL_PCI enabled
[4294667.634000] Broadcom BCM7401 P31 Ethernet Network Device v2.0 Sep  3 2011 16:50:03
[4294667.642000] SUNDRY revision = 74010021, have IP Hdr Opt=1
[4294667.655000] Config Internal PHY Through MDIO: 100 MB Full-Duplex (auto-neg)
[4294669.309000] ata1: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0xB0510000 ctl 0xB0510020 bmdma 0xB0510030 irq 42
[4294669.318000] scsi0 : sata_svw
[4294669.625000] ata1: SATA link down (SStatus 4 SControl 300)
[4294669.630000] ATA: abnormal status 0x7F on port 0xb051001c
[4294669.668000] Broadcom STB NAND controller (BrcmNand Controller)
[4294669.674000] B4: NandSelect=40000002, nandConfig=04042300, chipSelect=1
[4294669.681000] brcmnand_probe: CS1: dev_id=ad76ad76
[4294669.686000] After: NandSelect=40000002, nandConfig=04042300
[4294669.692000] NAND Config: Reg=04042300, chipSize=64 MB, blockSize=16K, erase_shift=e
[4294669.700000] busWidth=1, pageSize=512B, page_shift=9, page_mask=000001ff
[4294669.707000] timing1 not adjusted: 5363444f
[4294669.711000] timing2 not adjusted: 00000fc6
[4294669.716000] BrcmNAND mfg ad 76 Hynix HY27US08121A (dream) 64MB
[4294669.722000]
[4294669.722000] Found NAND: ACC=e3000000, cfg=04042300, flashId=ad76ad76, tim1=5363444f, tim2=00000fc6
[4294669.733000] BrcmNAND version = 0x0001 64MB @00000000
[4294669.738000] Found NAND chip on Chip Select 1, chipSize=64MB, usable size=64MB, base=14000000
[4294669.747000] ACC_CONTROL B4: e3000000
[4294669.751000] page_shift=9, bbt_erase_shift=14, chip_shift=26, phys_erase_shift=14
[4294669.759000] Brcm NAND controller version = 0.1 NAND flash size 64MB @14000000
[4294669.766000] mtd->oobsize=16, mtd->eccOobSize=16
[4294669.771000] brcmnand_scan:  mtd->oobsize=16
[4294669.775000] brcmnand_scan: oobavail=12, eccsize=512, writesize=512
[4294669.782000] brcmnand_scan, eccsize=512, writesize=512, eccsteps=1, ecclevel=15, eccbytes=3
[4294669.790000] brcmnand_default_bbt: bbt_td = bbt_main_descr
[4294669.798000] brcmnandCET: Status -> Deferred
[4294669.802000]        numchips=1, size=4000000
[4294669.806000] Creating 4 MTD partitions on "bcm7xxx-nand.0":
[4294669.812000] 0x0000000000000000-0x0000000004000000 : "complete"
[4294669.822000] 0x0000000000000000-0x0000000000040000 : "loader"
[4294669.828000] 0x0000000000040000-0x0000000000400000 : "boot partition"
[4294669.836000] 0x0000000000400000-0x0000000004000000 : "root partition"
[4294669.846000] ehci_hcd_brcm_init: Initializing 1 EHCI controller(s)
[4294669.852000] 10 Dec 2004 USB 2.0 'Enhanced' Host Controller (EHCI) Driver (EHCI-brcm-0)
[4294669.861000] drivers/usb/host/ehci-brcm.c: starting brcm EHCI USB Controller
[4294669.868000]  - USB h/w setup mode 
[4294669.868000]  - USB power enable set for active LOW mode
[4294669.878000] brcm-ehci brcm-ehci.0: BRCM EHCI
[4294669.883000] brcm-ehci brcm-ehci.0: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1
[4294669.890000] brcm-ehci brcm-ehci.0: irq 62, io mem 0x10480300
[4294669.897000] brcm-ehci brcm-ehci.0: USB 0.0 started, EHCI 1.00, driver 10 Dec 2004
[4294669.905000] usb usb1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
[4294669.911000] hub 1-0:1.0: USB hub found
[4294669.916000] hub 1-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
[4294670.021000] ohci_hcd_brcm_init: Initializing 2 OHCI controller(s)
[4294670.028000] 2005 April 22 USB 1.1 'Open' Host Controller (OHCI) Driver (OHCI-brcm-0)
[4294670.036000] drivers/usb/host/ohci-brcm.c: starting brcm OHCI USB Controller
[4294670.043000]  - Resetting at b0480408
[4294670.047000] <-- brcm_start_hc
[4294670.050000] brcm-ohci-0 brcm-ohci-0.0: BRCM OHCI
[4294670.055000] brcm-ohci-0 brcm-ohci-0.0: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 2
[4294670.064000] brcm-ohci-0 brcm-ohci-0.0: irq 63, io mem 0x10480400
[4294670.125000] usb usb2: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
[4294670.131000] hub 2-0:1.0: USB hub found
[4294670.136000] hub 2-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
[4294670.241000] 2005 April 22 USB 1.1 'Open' Host Controller (OHCI) Driver (OHCI-brcm-1)
[4294670.250000] drivers/usb/host/ohci-brcm.c: starting brcm OHCI USB Controller
[4294670.257000]  - Resetting at b0480508
[4294670.261000] <-- brcm_start_hc
[4294670.264000] brcm-ohci-1 brcm-ohci-1.1: BRCM OHCI
[4294670.269000] brcm-ohci-1 brcm-ohci-1.1: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 3
[4294670.277000] brcm-ohci-1 brcm-ohci-1.1: irq 64, io mem 0x10480500
[4294670.339000] usb usb3: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
[4294670.345000] hub 3-0:1.0: USB hub found
[4294670.350000] hub 3-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
[4294670.455000] Initializing USB Mass Storage driver...
[4294670.461000] usbcore: registered new driver usb-storage
[4294670.466000] USB Mass Storage support registered.
[4294670.471000] i2c /dev entries driver
[4294670.475000] Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Driver Version 1.0.12rc1 (Thu Jun 22 13:55:50 2006 UTC).
[4294670.485000] ALSA device list:
[4294670.488000]   No soundcards found.
[4294670.492000] TCP bic registered
[4294670.496000] NET: Registered protocol family 1
[4294670.500000] NET: Registered protocol family 17
[4294672.008000] Sending DHCP requests ., OK
[4294672.250000] IP-Config: Got DHCP answer from 0.0.0.0, my address is 192.168.1.18
[4294672.258000] IP-Config: Complete:
[4294672.262000]       device=eth0, addr=192.168.1.18, mask=255.255.255.0, gw=192.168.1.1,
[4294672.270000]      host=192.168.1.18, domain=subside.com, nis-domain=(none),
[4294672.277000]      bootserver=0.0.0.0, rootserver=0.0.0.0, rootpath=
[4294679.824000] VFS: Mounted root (jffs2 filesystem).
[4294679.831000] Freeing unused kernel memory: 128k freed
INIT: version 2.86 booting
[4294681.011000] stb_core: module license 'Proprietary' taints kernel.
[4294681.140000] 4008811 ms:
[4294681.200000] 57 ms: 27 Starting /etc/rcS.d/S02sysfs...
[4294681.222000] 17 ms: =s
Startting the hotplug events dispatcher
Synthesizing the initial hotplug events
Waiting for /dev to be fully populated
done
[4294684.730000] 3506 ms: 29 Starting /etc/rcS.d/S03udev...
[4294684.752000] 17 ms: =s
[4294684.771000] 17 ms: 31 Starting /etc/rcS.d/S04bootup...
[4294684.778000] 2 ms: 10
mount: mounting /dev/sda1 [4294685.436000] 655 ms: 12
on /media/hdd failed: No such file or directory
[4294685.456000] 17 ms: 14
[4294685.487000] 28 ms: 15
/dev/sda: No such file or di[4294685.543000] 53 ms: 16
rectory
/dev/sda: No such file or d[4294685.559000] 14 ms: 17
irectory
[4294685.594000] input: dreambox remote control (native) as /class/input/input0
[4294685.602000] input: dreambox advanced remote control (native) as /class/input/input1
[4294685.682000] input: dreambox ir keyboard as /class/input/input2
[4294685.689000] input: dreambox ir mouse as /class/input/input3
[4294687.886000] enter base init, xvd 20090807, vdc 20080313, rap 20090430, xpt 20080313
[4294687.894000] kernMemSize : 148 MB
[4294687.909000] 20:613017000 SMCA: controller reset timed out
[4294690.256000] register adapter
[4294690.260000] register adapter
[4294690.264000] register adapter
[4294690.267000] register adapter
[4294690.270000] register adapter
[4294690.274000] input: dreambox front panel as /class/input/input4
[4294690.327000] HDMI: no device attached
[4294690.331000] set sb to 3(2)
[4294690.334000] set fb to 2(-1)
[4294690.338000] set input to 0
[4294690.341000] set fb to 2(-1)
[4294690.346000] bcm_video_analog_port_setup (fmt=6)
[4294690.351000] SET FORMAT: display[1], format=6
[4294690.355000] display 0 uses vbi path 1
[4294690.359000] display 1 uses vbi path 0
[4294690.364000] HDMI: hotplug handler!
[4294690.367000] HDMI: no device attached
[4294690.371000] using 50.00Hz as MonitorRefreshRate
[4294690.376000] SET FORMAT: display[0], format=24
[4294690.381000] set fb to 2(0)
[4294690.384000] bcm_video_analog_port_setup (fmt=6)
[4294690.388000] SET FORMAT: display[1], format=6
[4294690.434000] disable wss on display 0
[4294690.438000] disable wss on display 1
[4294690.442000] bcmfb: creating surface with pixel format 0x07e48888 (BPXL_eA8_R8_G8_B8)
[4294690.647000] enable mad
[4294690.714000] VIDEO0: set fallback framerate to 60000
[4294690.719000] VIDEO0: set progressive override mode to 1
[4294690.725000] VIDEO0: set streamtype!
[4294690.729000] set MPEG2
[4294690.731000] sw rave disabled!
[4294690.740000] sync is off so we enable it
[4294690.745000] playback!
[4294690.747000] total video delay: 0 (0 ms)
[4294690.759000] VIDEO0: start decode
[4294690.762000] flush video decoder
[4294690.766000] VIDEO0 got pts failed !!!! (ret 0)
[4294691.226000] set ac3 to downmix
[4294691.230000] set aac to downmix
[4294691.274000] VIDEO0: first pts 0x0
[4294691.290000] init ALSA!
[4294691.297000] DVB: registering new adapter (BCM7401)
[4294691.452000] autodetecting NIMs...
[4294691.457000] enable tsm0
[4294691.460000] ret: 2, feid: 06
[4294691.463000] Found: Slot A, ID: 06 (by CA)
[4294691.467000] Initializing adapter 0 (Alps BSBE2-DVB-S2)
[4294691.473000] special BSBE2 treatment:
[4294695.982000] DVB: registering adapter 0 frontend 0 (cx24116)...
[4294696.025000] registered vtuner vtuner0, minor 60
[4294696.030000] registered vtuner vtuner1, minor 59

I don't know what special treatment it is getting, but it doesn't seem to be working...

This post has been edited 1 times, last edit by "lasa" (Sep 7th 2011, 11:35pm)

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dinnycoakley

Dreamer

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Sunday, August 5th 2012, 3:08pm

hi i am also having trouble with my dm800pvr.its stuck on bootloader and its just showing the screen enigma 2 and has a red light flashing.can any1 help please.

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Dreamboard