[linux-dvb] Re: Full featured DVB-T card update

[Johannes Stezenbach <js@convergence.de>]

On Fri, Aug 01, 2003 at 03:22:26PM +0200, Juri Haberland wrote:
> Johannes Stezenbach wrote:
> 
> > Could you guys please test current CVS with the following patch applied?
> > 
> > Index: frontends/alps_tdlb7.c
> 
> [SNIP]
> 
> > Maybe there's some more stuff to do in FE_RESET, like system controller stop/start.
> > Please experiment.
> 
> Ok, CVS retrieved, patched, compiled and running.
> 
> But please be patient, as it usually takes one or two days for the
> frontend-lockup problem to manifest itself.

The patch is not intended to do something about lock-ups, it's
purely to improve tuning:
>> Before the patch i had a hard time to switch to any channel on the frequency
>> (transponder) of RTL here in Berlin. This happened very often.
>> With the patch applied RTL etc. are working fine, but i have sometimes
>> problems with SAT1 etc. The tuner seems to takes more time to get a lock for
>> this channel now, it takes sometimes up to some seconds until i see
>> something.

> PS: very first impression - tuning is not as reliable as with the patch I
> resend - but have to do some double checking before I can be sure...

OK. Please also test adding the system controller stop/start (copy from
FE_SET_FRONTEND) to FE_RESET.

Johannes


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