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

[Nico <nsabbi@tiscali.it>]

Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote:

> 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
>       
>                                   ^
>                                .     .
>                                 Linux
>                              /    -    \
>                             Choice.of.the
>                           .Next.Generation.
>
>
>  
I updated mplayer yesterday, please check it out (I didn't flush the 
event queue before tuning).
BTW I had loads of problems with 1.1.x drivers, so I reverted to 1.0.x.
Thanks,
   Nico


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