[linux-dvb] Re: Newbie questions

[Gavin Hamill <gdh@acentral.co.uk>]

On Sun, Jan 12, 2003 at 10:55:34PM +0000, Bruno Prior wrote:
> 
> I can't think of anything else to try. The two lines:
> 
> Nothing to read from fd_pat
> Nothing to read from fd_sdt

This just means no valid Transport Stream was picked up. A Transport 
stream contains both a PAT and SDT to describe what services are 
available on this frequency.

OK, there are only two things I can think of now, and both are clutching
at straws....

1) IRQ conflicts... do an 'lspci -v' or 'cat /proc/interrupts' and make 
sure nothing is sharing an IRQ.

If there is a share, then do whatever you can to stop it happening - 
remove all expansion cards except the Nova (or AGP gfx.. ;) ,disable USB
/ serial / parallel / all on-board stuff in the BIOS and try again. 

If that still fails, put the Nova in a different PCI slot. 

These sound really desperate, but there have been a few documented cases 
on the list where this was the solution to weird problems - and although 
they concern users with 2 or 3 DVB cards, it's still worth a try.

2) Try the card in Windows! Make sure you don't actually have a duff 
one! :)

It's a bizarre install - Windows installs it as a Network device - and 
when I tried it, I ended up having to set a static IP address for the 
Nova card... Very shoddy.

Cheers,
Gavin.



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