[linux-dvb] Re: nova pci dvb-t + 2.6.0-test10 kernel?

[Jamie Honan <jhonan@optusnet.com.au>]

> Maybe.  The signal seems to be not very well here.  I often get "tuning
> failed" messages.  I've picked the cheapest antenna I could find,
> assuming that would be good enougth because I'm living in the city, not
> far away from the berlin television tower.  Probably that wasn't a great
> idea :-/  Or there are any tricks I can try?

Signal can be terrible and it will still be a brilliant picture,
thanks to the magic of COFDM.

(I have a magicpoint presentation on
http://members.optushome.com.au/jhonan/sak/dvb-talk-v2.tar.gz
showing analogue signal with xawtv and a digital, using nova-t,
dxr3 into xawtv. The comparison is incredible).

> > >This is still vanilla -test10, I'll try to update to latest cvs-kernel
> > >now.

I must confess I used -test6 and also various cvs versions, all
working OK. However, this card series is notorious for differences.

Also, I notice there are differences if you extract later windows
upload code and the default in cvs...

> running a patched kernel with latest dvb-kernel driver, still the same
> problem.  Works for a short time, then it dies and I get I/O errors
> if I try to tune something.  reboot fixes it.
>
> The 2.4 kernel seems to have issues too btw, it crashed several times
> today while testing mpeg2 playback (i.e. read mpeg ts stream drom dvr0
> and play that).

Hmm .... Card seated OK? Some warnings about PRE-EMPT ? DMA?

Don't overlook other things ...

Jamie



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