[linux-dvb] Re: Full featured card summary

[Klaus Schmidinger <Klaus.Schmidinger@cadsoft.de>]

Klaus Schmidinger wrote:
> 
> Andrew de Quincey wrote:
> >
> > > > Cool. The Root/Dpram in your 2003-11-08 DVB snapshot is the same as the
> > > > ones I extracted from dvb-ttpci-01.fw.gz currently on the website. So its
> > > > definitely not that; I just wanted to make ABSOLUTELY sure it wasn't some
> > > > build issue. I'm assuming your 2003-11-08 snapshot works for your DISEQC
> > > > BTW.
> > >
> > > Yes, it does.
> >
> > Another difference (though I don't see how it can affect DISEQC, but you never
> > know!):
> >
> > In 1.0.0 and your 2003-11-08 snapsnot, hw_sections = 0 by default
> >
> > In 1.1.0 and CVS, hw_sections = 1 by default
> 
> BINGO!
> 
> Andrew, you're the best!
> 
> I've changed to hw_sections = 0 in the dvb-kernel driver and
> DiSEqC now works as reliably as with the DVB driver.
> 
> I then switched the DVB driver to hw_sections = 1 in order to
> cross check, but the DVB driver still switches DiSEqC reliably,
> even with hw_sections = 1.
> 
> Finally, I switched the dvb-kernel driver back to hw_sections = 1
> and again DiSEqC didn't work reliably.
> 
> So apparently the dvb-kernel driver doesn't handle DiSEqC reliably
> with hw_sections = 1, while in the DVB driver it works with both
> 0 and 1.
> 
> I can, of course, use the dvb-kernel driver with hw_sections = 1

Sorry, this should of course have been "... hw_sections = 0".

> (as I always did with the DVB driver) and this solves my immediate
> problem. However, there must still be something else that influences
> things here, because in the old (DVB) driver the actual value of
> hw_sections didn't matter...

Klaus


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