From: "Andreas Oberritter" <andreas@oberritter.de>
seems like auto inversion fails. please try ves1820.c from dvb-kernel
or try increasing the mdelays until it works reliably. current cvs
version uses 50ms delay while the patches you used have 30ms.
Might still not be enough. I've measured the sync-times of the VES1820 and
it can sometimes take over 80ms for it to sync after a soft-reset (sync'ing
without a soft-reset is much faster, typically less than 8ms, but
unfortunately not reliable since the AFC logic can get "stuck" at a far
off-center frequency and cause the demodulator not to sync at all). You
might want to try 100ms or even more...
Can you please report which delay values work reliably so that we can
take them over into the driver source?