[vdr] Re: Error on 2. DVB card

[Joerg Riechardt <J.Riechardt@gmx.de>]

Juergen Schmidt wrote:

> On Tue, 8 Jan 2002, Juergen Schmidt wrote:
>
> > Hello,
> >
> > I have two Siemens DVB cards installed, the driver reports:
> >
> > dvb0: AV7111 - firm f0240009, rtsl b0250018, vid 71010068, app 00010002
> > dvb1: AV7111 - firm f0240009, rtsl b0250018, vid 71010068, app 00010002
> > dvb: 2 dvb(s) found!
> >
> > VDR also finds both cards, but refuses to record on the second one (no DVB
> > ressources). When I start vdr with an explicit "vdr -D 1" and try to
> > switch a channel (telnet to port 2001 and "chan 2") I get:
> >
> > Jan  8 11:32:21 matrix vdr[2240]: switching to channel 2
> > Jan  8 11:32:21 matrix vdr[2240]: ERROR: Transfer-Mode kann nicht
> > gestartet werden!
> >
> > (can't start Transfer Mode!)
> > Somehow vdr has problems to talk to the second card.
> >
> > I used vdr 0.98 and just upgraded to 0.99pre1 w.o. any changes in
> > behaviour. The DVB driver is a snapshot from 1.1.2002
>
> I just tried the siemens_dvb-0.9-20011117.tgz from the vdr-ftp-server. No
> changes. A couple more tests showed strange behaviour:
>
> When I start vdr with the primary card set to "2", watching tv is
> fine,switching channels works.
>
> Jan  9 19:11:53 matrix vdr[7423]: found 2 video devices
> Jan  9 19:11:53 matrix vdr[7423]: setting primary DVB to 2
>
> When a recording starts, the display freezes but the recording works (on
> card 1, I suppose). When I try to switch channels I get the "can't start
> Transfer Mode" error on the frozen tv image.
>
> When I start vdr with the primary card set to "1", I get:
>
> Jan  9 19:52:31 matrix vdr[8290]: found 2 video devices
> Jan  9 19:52:31 matrix vdr[8290]: setting primary DVB to 1
>
> but it always records on card 1, switching channels is blocked, and there
> is no option in the menu, to stop the recording.
>
> It looks like there might be a kind of ressource conflict, that keeps vdr
> >from talking to card 2 when card 1 is busy.
>
> I detected, that the second card is sharing interrupts with the isdn card
> and an additional ide controller:
>
>   9:   18951340          XT-PIC  saa7146(1)
>  10:   13729405          XT-PIC  ide2, HiSax, saa7146(2)
>
> Might this cause the problem? If so, how do I change the interrupt used by
> the second card?
>
> Is there something like i/o-ports to configure? Any tests I can make to
> further investigate this issue? Or should I mail this to the DVB list, to
> get assistance?
>
> bye, ju

1. Is channels.conf configured to use both cards?
2. shared interrupts is a known problem (altough in my pc the first card shares
interrupt with the usb, and that works ok)

Jörg