[linux-dvb] Re: Problems with WinTV NOVA-CI

[Stefan Taferner <taferner@kde.org>]

On Monday 13 December 2004 15:42, Werner Hauger wrote:
> On Mon, 13 Dec 2004 13:54:37 +0000, Andrew de Quincey
>
> <adq_dvb@lidskialf.net> wrote:
> > Werner said he'd compared the saa7146 PCI memory between working and
> > non-working and there wasn't really an obvious difference. On the Nova-S
> > cards there isn't really anything else you can control besides the demod
> > and PLL - and someone said that tuning works OK....
>
> Well, as far as szap is concerned, it gets a lock on to the signal,
> but since I don't get any data back, I don't know if tuning *really*
> worked.

Same here.

[...]
> I'll have a look at /proc/interrupts and also check if the IRQ
> assignment by the BIOS differs between cold and warm booting Linux.
> Maybe I'll also move the card to a different PCI slot to see if it
> makes a difference.

I did reload all other drivers so that the card has its own interrupt, and it
did not help.

I will test the saa7146 reset thing tonight that Johannes suggested.

--Stefan