[linux-dvb] Re: again problems with ALPS TDLB7

[Juergen Peitz <j.peitz.ml@gmx.de>]

On Friday 14 November 2003 20:54, Juri Haberland wrote:
> Hi list, especially Holger Waechtler and Jürgen Peitz,
>
> recently i updated my copy of the DVB-CVS drivers and since then I
> experience again the lock-up problems with the ALPS TDLB7 tuner on my
> DVB-T card. Previously I had been running a version that included the
> CVS version 1.13 of the alps_tdlb7.c file modified with a patch that
> Jürgen posted in August. This worked absolutely perfect - I had no tuner
> lock-ups at all and a firmware crash only once a month, or so - it was a
> rare event.
> With the new version 1.14, which - according to the CVS log - includes
> some changes by Jürgen, I have a tuner lock-up ever second day.

Hmm, I use this version a longer time already without any problems.

> Also femon reports only zeros for BER and UNC whereas with the old
> version I had varying readings.

Is BER and UNC always zero or only after a lockup?

> So these changes made things worse or did at least nothing, but they did
> not improve the situation. What about Jürgens patch that he send in
> August? Why wan't it included?

It's already included in version 1.14, so it should work like the patched 
version 1.13. 

Sorry, have no idea what could cause this problems, anything in the logfiles?

Jürgen




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