[linux-dvb] Re: nova budget / vdr breaks the driver..

[Pasi Kärkkäinen <pasik@iki.fi>]

On Thu, Mar 18, 2004 at 11:03:48PM +0200, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 18, 2004 at 06:21:26PM +0100, Johannes Stezenbach wrote:
> > Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote:
> > > 
> > > I'm using WinTV Nova-t PCI DVB-T budget card with linuxtv-dvb-1.1.0 driver
> > > on Linux 2.4.24.
> > > 
> > > If I run vdr (1.3.6) as the first application after the reboot, I don't get
> > > any signal.. mplayer doesn't work either after this. mplayer complains that
> > > dvb streaming read fails.
> > > 
> > > But, If I run mplayer as the first application after the reboot, it works
> > > well. After running mplayer, vdr works too. And mplayer works after vdr too
> > > in this case :)
> > > 
> > > So, If I run vdr before mplayer, it somehow breaks the driver.. I guess.
> > > Any ideas? There's no errors in the logs. Reloading the drivers doesn't
> > > help. 
> > > 
> > > If you run vdr before mplayer, only solution is to reboot to get the dvb
> > > card working again.. weird :)
> > 
> > This sounds interesting. What frontend?
> > 
> 
> saa7146: register extension 'budget dvb'.
> saa7146_core: found saa7146 @ mem d0a51000 (revision 1, irq 11)
> (0x13c2,0x1005).
> DVB: registering new adapter (TT-Budget/WinTV-NOVA-T  PCI).
> TT-Budget/WinTV-NOVA-T  PCI adapter 0 has MAC addr = mac:goes:here
> DVB: registering frontend 0:0 (Grundig 29504-401)...
> 
> 
> > The only thing I can imagine is that vdr calls some ioctl
> > before the frontend is fully initialized (the driver should
> > prevent this, of course), and then the frontend
> > crashes and needs to be power-cycled.
> > 
> > Can anyone else reproduce this?
> > 
> 
> This is reproducible for me atleast.. happens every time.
> 

This is the output from mplayer after running vdr:

TUNER TYPE SEEMS TO BE DVB-T
code taken from dvbstream for mplayer v0.4pre1 - (C) Dave Chapman 2001
Released under the GPL.
Latest version available from http://www.linuxstb.org/
dvb_tune Freq: 554000000
dvb_streaming_read, attempt N. 6 failed with errno 11 when reading 2048
bytes
dvb_streaming_read, attempt N. 5 failed with errno 11 when reading 2048
bytes
dvb_streaming_read, attempt N. 4 failed with errno 11 when reading 2048
bytes
dvb_streaming_read, attempt N. 3 failed with errno 11 when reading 2048
bytes
dvb_streaming_read, attempt N. 2 failed with errno 11 when reading 2048
bytes
dvb_streaming_read, attempt N. 1 failed with errno 11 when reading 2048
bytes
dvb_streaming_read, return 0 bytes
dvb_streaming_read, attempt N. 6 failed with errno 11 when reading 2048
bytes
dvb_streaming_read, attempt N. 5 failed with errno 11 when reading 2048
bytes
dvb_streaming_read, attempt N. 4 failed with errno 11 when reading 2048
bytes
dvb_streaming_read, attempt N. 3 failed with errno 11 when reading 2048
bytes
dvb_streaming_read, attempt N. 2 failed with errno 11 when reading 2048
bytes
dvb_streaming_read, attempt N. 1 failed with errno 11 when reading 2048
bytes
dvb_streaming_read, return 0 bytes
dvb_streaming_read, attempt N. 6 failed with errno 11 when reading 2048
bytes

.. and gonna reboot :)

-- Pasi Kärkkäinen
       
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