[linux-dvb] Help with North America setup

[Jerry Beuree <jbeuree@rogers.com>]

Hi,

I've been pounding on this for a while and haven't been able to get much 
success making this work under linux. I'm in Canada trying to connect to 
the Expressvu sat. The free channels work under Windows, but I haven't 
been able to get a signal lock with linux.

I've tried modifying the szap app to handle the circular polarities, and 
the changes look good, but my problem must be something bigger. For 
example, I'm trying to get a free channel on freq 12399 MHz with szap. 
It gives me the following output:

reading channels from file '/home/mythtv/.szap/channels.conf'
zapping to 'bev1':
sat 0, frequency = 12399 MHz 3, symbolrate 20000000, vpid = 0x1422, apid 
= 0x1423
using '/dev/dvb/adapter0/frontend0' and '/dev/dvb/adapter0/demux0'
status 03 | signal 8251 | snr 70e0 | ber 0000ff08 | unc 00000000 |
status 03 | signal 81bd | snr 70c5 | ber 0000ff00 | unc 00000000 |
status 03 | signal 7d08 | snr 70a1 | ber 0000ff00 | unc 00000000 |
status 03 | signal 781e | snr 70d4 | ber 0000ff08 | unc 00000000 |
status 03 | signal 773a | snr 70fe | ber 0000ff08 | unc 00000000 |
status 03 | signal 7001 | snr 709e | ber 0000ff08 | unc 00000000 |
status 03 | signal 6e07 | snr 7095 | ber 0000ff00 | unc 00000000 |
status 03 | signal 6928 | snr 6fea | ber 0000ff08 | unc 00000000 |
status 03 | signal 8338 | snr 70ad | ber 0000ff00 | unc 00000000 |
status 03 | signal 81ee | snr 70c5 | ber 0000ff00 | unc 00000000 |

I think the signal looks good. It thinks there's a carrier, although I 
never get a lock. Any recommendations on where to go from here? I've 
looked all through the drivers to see if there would be anything which 
wouldn't work in NA, but the only things I found were in the apps. I'm 
also forcing inversion on, which is needed here.

Thanks in advance,
Jerry



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