[vdr] Re: channel x not sync'ed ??

[ma.hoff@t-online.de (Martin Hoffmann)]

Now i have tracked it down a little further and i think it might be a heat 
problem with my primary dvbs card !

Does anyone know how to cool the card properly ? Without noise of a fan ?

The chip that is covered by the metal box on the card (there seems some heat 
cream (Leitpaste?) between the metal and the chip surface) gets quite hot - i 
nearly burnt my finger by touching :-(
Has anyone already built it's own cooling or mounted some cooler upon the 
card ?

Hints welcome...

Martin

Am Sonntag, 6. Januar 2002 00:27 schrieben Sie:
> Hi !
>
> this evening i'm experiencing strange problems :-(
> My primary dvb card refuses to sync any channel ...
>
> /var/log/messages tells this:
>
> Jan  6 00:13:17 videotux vdr[2273]: ERROR: channel 3 not sync'ed on DVB
> card 1! Jan  6 00:13:17 videotux vdr[2273]: panic level: 1
> Jan  6 00:13:17 videotux vdr[2273]: retrying
> Jan  6 00:13:17 videotux kernel: mon_fail(0): freq=1510000000, sr=27500000
> Jan  6 00:13:19 videotux vdr[2273]: ERROR: channel 3 not sync'ed on DVB
> card 1! Jan  6 00:13:19 videotux vdr[2273]: panic level: 2
> Jan  6 00:13:19 videotux vdr[2273]: retrying
> Jan  6 00:13:19 videotux kernel: mon_fail(0): freq=1510000000, sr=27500000
> Jan  6 00:13:19 videotux vdr[2273]: ERROR: timeout while tuning
> Jan  6 00:13:19 videotux vdr[2273]: ERROR: channel 3 not sync'ed on DVB
> card 1! Jan  6 00:13:19 videotux vdr[2273]: panic level: 3
> Jan  6 00:13:19 videotux vdr[2273]: retrying
> Jan  6 00:13:19 videotux vdr[2273]: max. latency time 4 seconds
> Jan  6 00:13:19 videotux vdr[2273]: switching to channel 4
> Jan  6 00:13:21 videotux vdr[2273]: ERROR: channel 4 not sync'ed on DVB
> card 1! Jan  6 00:13:21 videotux vdr[2273]: panic level: 4
> Jan  6 00:13:21 videotux vdr[2273]: retrying
> Jan  6 00:13:21 videotux kernel: mon_fail(0): freq=1510000000, sr=27500000
> Jan  6 00:13:23 videotux vdr[2273]: ERROR: channel 4 not sync'ed on DVB
> card 1!
>
> After a cold reboot of my machine it works again for several minutes up to
> several hours. The problem occurs without user interaction (channel
> switching or so) - so just live viewing - suddenly the picture and sound
> stops and switching the channel leads to the above described :-(
> There seems to be a very rare chance that channel switching cures the
> problem, also !
>
> I have a second dvbs card in my system which works fine. Exchanging the sat
> cables didn't help - the problem persists on the primary card !
>
>
> So my question: What does kernel: mon_fail mean ??? Is my card broken ? Or
> at least it's tuner part ?
>
> Martin.