[linux-dvb] Re: Recent CVS activity broke WinTV Nova-T (philips revision)

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

On Monday 08 November 2004 12:56, Richard Hamnett wrote:
> Hey there,
>
> I have been using the CVS drivers for months now, and they have always
> been great for me, however i updated the drivers a few days ago and
> installed the latest compiled modules. and i now get a problem whereby
> i can tzap to a channel for example, and get a lock in a few
> seconds.....but if i then leave it 10 seconds, and try to tzap to the
> channel again (or any other channel for that matter) i cannot get a
> lock .... the only way i can remedy the problem is to unload the
> tda1004x and budget_ci modules and re-insert them.
>
> Is anyone else experiencing the same problem?
>

Same here. But it's only necessary to reload the budget_ci module to make it 
working again, maybe this helps debugging.

# tzap -a1 zdf
using '/dev/dvb/adapter1/frontend0' and '/dev/dvb/adapter1/demux0'
reading channels from file '/root/.tzap/channels.conf'
tuning to 570000000 Hz
video pid 0x0221, audio pid 0x0222
status 00 | signal ffff | snr 0000 | ber 0001fffe | unc 00000003 |
status 00 | signal ffff | snr 0000 | ber 0001fffe | unc 00000000 |
status 00 | signal ffff | snr 0000 | ber 0001fffe | unc 00000000 |
...

Think this started just after the REFACTORING code was commited, before I 
never had any problems with this card.

Juergen