[linux-dvb] Re: Intermittent modprobe failure for tda1004x

[Andrew de Quincey <adq_dvb@lidskialf.net>]

On Monday 15 Nov 2004 11:02, Nick Ludlam wrote:
> Hi all,
> I have an old Philips-based Hauppauge Nova-T, and for a long long while
> this has been as stable as I could have hoped for. Now about two weeks ago
> I bought the new Connexant-based card to try and see if I could get it
> working, managed, and then replaced my old Nova-T. Ever since, I experience
> tda1004x modprobe failures. An example dmesg:
>
> DVB: registering new adapter (TT-Budget/WinTV-NOVA-T     PCI).
> tda1004x: Detected Philips TDA10045H.
> tda1004x: Detected Philips TD1316 tuner.
> tda1004x_fwupload: firmware upload failed!
>
> so I rmmod and modprobe, another failure, rmmod and modprobe, and it works!
>
> tda1004x: Detected Philips TDA10045H.
> tda1004x: Detected Philips TD1316 tuner.
> tda1004x_fwupload: firmware upload failed!
> tda1004x: Detected Philips TDA10045H.
> tda1004x: Detected Philips TD1316 tuner.
> DVB: registering frontend 0:0 (Philips TDA10045H)...
>
> So what could cause this? A badly seated PCI card? Some kind of very rare
> race condition? My kernel's a fairly standard 2.4.25, and had been working
> fine before I started testing the new model. Any ideas?

Only time I've seen this on mine was when I accidentally had a high machine 
load... seems the tda10045 just timed out during the firmware upload.