[linux-dvb] Re: HEAD driver scanning problem

[Holger Waechtler <holger@convergence.de>]

Richard Scobie wrote:
> Kovacs Balazs wrote:
> 
>> I've found a problem (maybe bug) with HEAD driver (maybe it causes the
>> mplayer bugs also)
>>
>> When I don't attach an antenne to the DVB card, and start HEAD driver,
>> and after that I start an application which want to tune to a channel,
>> kdvb-fe proccess starts to eat my CPU time, and even after quitting the
>> application which want to tune (dvbtune, scan, vdr ....) the kdvb-fe
>> still eats CPU time, (~50% on my C766) until I restart the driver.
>>
> 
> This is perhaps related to a problem I am seeing.
> 
> I am using vdr 1.1.15 with driver dated 1-11-2002 on a DVB-s 2.1.
> If I tune from an active channel, to a channel with no carrier (my 
> channel list has channels that carry itinerant feeds), and then tune 
> back to an active channel, the vision and sound does not return. VDR 
> still seems to be functioning OK (OSD changes as I switch channels, 
> menus work), but I can only restore vision/sound by restarting VDR (not 
> the driver). While it is faulting, the kdvb-fe process is using 50% CPU 
> (P1 233).
> 
> There is nothing out of the ordinary in the log and Klaus was a little
> baffled by this behaviour when I reported it on the VDR list.

have you seen outcommand errors or an ARM crash in the kernel logs?


> I will test with the latest CVS driver.

please do so,

Holger



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