[linux-dvb] Re: Couple of frontend questions

[Andrew de Quincey <adq_dvb@lidskialf.net>]

On Monday 01 March 2004 20:44, Oliver Endriss wrote:
> On Monday 01 March 2004 12:09, Andrew de Quincey wrote:
> > I only have access to a few sat dishes, all of which are professional
> > quality with quad LNBs. I haven't ever actually experienced LNB drift.
> > Currently the
>
> Same here.
>
> > only use I have for the zigzagging code is to finetune during the initial
> > lock. Ideally, that would be done in a userspace library.
>
> Full ack. IMHO the driver should return the frequency offset (if possible).
> An application could use this offset and save the info. This could improve
> tuning speed...

Some of the frontends (e.g. stv0299) implement this; if you call 
FE_GET_FRONTEND on them, it returns the actual parameters the hardware 
decided to lock on to.. its just that some frontends don't implement this 
call.


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