[linux-dvb] Re: driver snapshots dvb-kernel ?

[Steffen Barszus <st_barszus@gmx.de>]

Am Montag, 22. Dezember 2003 19:47 schrieb Michael Hunold:
> Hello Steffen,
>
> > I have a FF rev 1.3 and a skystar2 rev 2.6b here. I had the last
> > weeks/days dvb-kernel running, because i need it for the skystar. I
> > did yesterday accidently a cvs update without saving the previous
> > status.
>
> You can check out older version of the CVS by date.

Yep i know I'm a bit tired recently, so i thought its faster to ask. 

> > CVS told me that the firmware is out of the repository. Compiling
> > the driver for 2.4 fails now:
> >


> >
> > I have read all the mails regarding sourcing the firmware out of
> > the driver. There do i find the firmware now ? I havent found
> > anything. Anything that can help me get it running _now_ would make
> > me happy. I have some recordings in the queue for the next days.
>
> 8-) Christmas movie mania. ;-)

:-D ;) 

Yep and i have a dvd burner since some weeks now, so its easy to burn 
the recordings (usually 5 minutes work for me, one hour for my video 
processing machine ;) )

> I'm currently updating the docs, but forgot "build-2.4/README". Mea
> culpa.

no problem, its running again now

> Get the firmware from the main DVB download site, the only and most
> recent version is
> http://www.linuxtv.org:81/download/dvb/dvb-ttpci-01.fw

Thanks a lot i have read it in your other mail :))

> Then do a "make clean && ./getlinks && make" in the directory. The
> call to the "fdump" utility should convert the firmware file to the
> header file again, just like it used to be.

Yep it works

> > Summary:
> > - DVB doesn't support SS2 2.6b
> > - dvb-kernel doesn't compile on 2.4 because of missing firmware
> > - firmware is not in cvs
> > - didn't found firmware somewhere on ftp
> >
> > Ok hope someone can help me out of this.
> > I updated because of outcommand errors i get with this setup
> > regulary.
>
> I fear this won't be fixed. For me, these types of errors happen if
> you have a picky card in a picky system, ie. irq sharing, VIA
> chipset, high overall latency, ...

:-(

via kt133a + duron 1100, the skystar2 shares its interrupt with a Fritz 
Card (ISDN), will try if this solves the problem. 

>  > - recording on 22:30 :D
>
> I'll be on the net until 23:00 ... ;-)

Thanks a lot, it works allready :)))



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