[linux-dvb] Re: Experience building DVS dvb-kernel on 2.4.18 forbudget Nova-T

[Stephen Davies <steve@daviesfam.org>]

On Mon, 27 Jan 2003, Holger Waechtler wrote:

> Stephen Davies wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > With this lot adjusted, the driver built and showed signs of working.
> > My problem then was that dvbstream would capture a few seconds of video
> > and then data would stop.  In the syslog, the fidbirqs would stop too.
> > This seemed to correspond to a call to budget_diseqc_ioctl - which was
> > odd because I didn't see in dvbstream where such an ioctl was called.
> 
> That's not a bug, it's a feature called power management. When no 
> application is using the frontend anymore it will go into sleep mode.
> 
> The RigthWayToDoIt(tm) would be to fix all applications so that they 
> keep the frontend file descriptor opened when they expect data from the 
> frontend device.


Cool - I'll fix dvbstream then.

Steve




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