[vdr] Re: CAM Read Error

[Micael Beronius <micael.beronius@telia.com>]

Hello Adrian,

Well, I have to disappoint you. I have been using windows for some
months, since I never got my 1.6 3.5" CI/CAM to work under Linux, so I
was very exited when people started to say that this works.
But just trying, there's no go for me. I tried both the Metzler and
the pre2, none works with encrypted channels. (Viaccess)

With the old driver I could get it to work sort of, by restarting the
firmware until I got some response from the CAM, but that was a bit
too tedious for me, so I gave up.

Does anyone know if it is possible to get hold of the old 1.3 CI
anywhere?


Oh, I get Outcommand errors, and I have a P-III, so ..

In detail, I get:
OutCommand: timeout waiting for COMMAND idle
SOutCommand error
outcom error
 .. repeated.

Micael

Tuesday, April 8, 2003, 5:57:21 PM, you wrote:

AC> Humn, I tried that earlier, I can't say whether or not it works for me with
AC> the old firmware because I can't get it to work with the old firmware, if I
AC> revert to using it, the "Convergence" logo starts to scroll off the screen
AC> and then halts, menawhile on the console I get an error saying something
AC> like sync error or outcommand error - VDR doesn't work and generally run's
AC> very slowly - the CAM definately for me doesn't work with the old firmware.

AC> I'm not sure whether the problem with the old firmware is related to my
AC> machine, maybe it's because it's an athlon - I seem to remember outcommand
AC> problems being due to interrupt issues, but I really can't face setting my
AC> my old 500 Mhz PII and installing RedHat 8 and recompiling the kernel to get
AC> VDR to work (At least not at the moment!).

AC> Does anybody else have the Rev 1.6 3.5" cam working with either firmware?

AC> Anyway, thanks for the suggestion Norbert.

AC> Adrian
AC> ----- Original Message -----
AC> From: "Norbert Schmidt" <nschmidt-nrw@t-online.de>
AC> To: <vdr@linuxtv.org>
AC> Sent: Tuesday, April 08, 2003 4:31 PM
AC> Subject: [vdr] Re: CAM Read Error


>> Adrian Carpenter schrieb:
>> >
>> > I read a post from march about someone who was getting
>> > this problem, (CAM: Read Error) - I think the person had
>> > a PCI CI Interface, and they resolved the problem by
>> > reverting back to the older firmware without the LL.
>> >
>> > With the latest VDR & pre2 driver, I'm now at the stage
>> > where my system will now decode an encrypted channel for
>> > maybe 30 seconds or so - before I get a CAM: Read Error
>> > in the log file followed by the CAM resetting and it
>> > taking maybe 20 seconds to start decoding again - this
>> > then repeats forever.
>> >
>> > Anybody else got this problem, I know klaus said he's not
>> > looking at any LL problems until after the next release,
>> > so can anybody tell me if this is still a 3.5" drive bay
>> > ci interface related issue, or is it my cam?  I've tried
>> > it with 2 different IRDETO CAM's (Both are normal cams,
>> > not the All-Cam version) and they both exhibit the same
>> > problem.
>> >
>> > Also, if I do a replay and fast forward, on the console I
>> > get a whole load of OutCommand errors and VDR crashes.
>> >
>> > Thanks.
>> >
>> > Adrian
>> >
>> >
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>>
>> Hi Adrian,
>>
>> I have got stable vdr working with a 3.5" CI with irdeto
>> allcam 4.7 SE. I am using the old firmware of the driver.
>>
>> See DVB/Driver/av????/firmware-readme for details.
>>
>> CU Norbert
>>
>>
>>
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>>
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