[linux-dvb] Lifeview hybrid saa7134 driver not working anymore

[scoop_yo at freemail.gr]

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> > Considering your reply, I started today by changing the card to all PCI slots and powering on and off the machine each time, until when I put the card to the bottom PCI it worked again ! Then I tried all other slots again and it was working this time. That is some weird card behaviour !
> 
> It is still a very unpleasant situation for all involved, for you of
> course in the first place.
> 
> But until it should not be a single problem report anymore,for now it
> is, we have good reasons, to start questioning about the PSU in use and
> its current shape, the mobo distributing the voltage further, and in the
> end too, if something like a capacitor on the card itself starts
> leaking.
> 
> After all that, unfortunately, programming still can be a point, of
> course, but it did not change within that driver since long.
> 
> However, others operating on a higher level, can
> introduce_something/clear/fail_at_all on such too.
> 
> If you can't get out of that random, but windows always works, I guess
> we have a performance problem on your hardware ;)
> 
> Cheers,
> Hermann

It seems that I rushed into conclusions, but I managed to reproduce the problem.

The card stops working when I boot to my 64bit Linux system.
With my 32bit Linux and Windows XP 32 bit the card is working, but if I boot my 64bit Linux the card won't work there and after that boot the card stops working in all three OSes.
To make the card work again I have to switch off power & remove power cable and remove and place again the card to the PCI slot. (Not sure if that last part is needed) 
Then again the card works on Linux 32bit and Windows XP until I boot my 64bit 
Linux.

I use the same latest revision of `v4l-dvb' on both Linux 32bit & 64bit and latest vanilla 2.6.30.5. I also use the same firmware, but it seems that when I boot 64bit Linux some problems come up with the firmware.. I don't get why this happens since the firmware that I use is the same and I verified that by comparing those two files @ /lib/firmware :
dvb-fe-tda10045.fw
dvb-fe-tda10046.fw


I used the command bellow to load the module and I have attached two logs on a zip file:

# modprobe saa7134 i2c_debug=1 i2c_scan=1 disable_ir=1 core_debug=1


1st log: The error log that I get for the first time that I boot to 64bit Linux. Until that boot the card is working. After that boot it stops working.

2st log: The log that I get in my 32bit Linux when the card is working.


When the card stops working I get the error log that I attached in my first message.

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