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

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

On Tuesday 23 March 2004 18:26, John Murdoch wrote:
> Hi Andrew,
>
> On Fri, 19 Mar 2004 20:39:41 +0000
>
> Andrew de Quincey wrote:
> > Interesting, it has to be a bug in the grundig driver... the frontend
> > core code won't let anything start tuning until the driver returns from
> > its initialisation routine.
> >
> > It would be interesting to know which IOCTL is breaking it... can you run
> > VDR with "strace" to see?
> >
> > something like "strace vdr 2>&1 | grep ioctl" should do it....
>
> Firstly, I have managed to find a short-term solution to the problem. When
> I add the following line to my modules.conf, the frontend becomes rather
> stable upon a cold boot:
>
> above budget-core grundig_29504-401
>
> If I replace that line with something else appropriate, the DVB stuff fails
> instantly on my box upon VDR initialisation, requiring a reboot.

Ah great thanks, I'll have a look.

What happens if you (without the modules.conf line) try:
modprobe grundig_29504-401
wait for a minute
then run VDR... does that have the same problem? If so, it has to be a timing 
issue.


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