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

[Juri Haberland <juri@koschikode.com>]

Juergen Peitz wrote:

> maybe I found a solution for the lock-up problem. Because of the last very hot  
> days here in Berlin my card also started to show this lock-up's more often. 
> So it really seems to be heat depending. 
> I installed a fan close to it and I already got less lock-up's. Then I found 
> out that some channels became disturbed by the fan. So it's also important 
> that the card is not disturbed by other electric devices.     
> Next I did some more debugging on the driver. I couldn't find a way to avoid 
> the hangups of the sp8870 firmware, but probably found a solution to let the 
> driver detect it and recover from it (see Patch). 
> With this patch my card now seems to run absolutly stable even without a fan. 
> (though it's probably better for the card to install one).      

Great news!

I'll test this patch tomorrow and keep you posted.

Cheers,
Juri



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